Constant Tailscaled CPU usage? I haven't even set up any VPN

[PrefersAwkward]

I’m getting constant CPU consumption (usually a constant 0.3% to 3%, but it varies) from something callsed Tailscaled (/sbin/tailscaled). What’s weird is that my only search says it’s some VPN client, but I did not set up any kind of VPN.

Any ideas what this is doing and whether I can just safetly turn it off? I don’t want it hurting battery life if I can help it.

EDIT: It’s now pretty quiet, but it sometimes goes up again for a period of time. I’m not sure what causes it.

[knewman]

I’m not sure about disabling the actual daemon, but you can disable the shell extension from the extension manager:

[j0rge]

systemctl disable --now tailscaled will stop the service, that’s probably what’s taking up resources, we’re in progress of setting up a toggle, testing here would be appreciated!

feat: ujust command to toggle Tailscale

[PrefersAwkward]

I ran this command on my main laptop. I also have an older laptop I’m happy to test with! I’ll test that PR tomorrow. I don’t know what ujust is, but I’ll figure it out.

[j0rge]

We use just to run the scripts for convenience commands:

http://just.systems/

Introduction to Just

just just is a task runner similar to make, but designed to run project-specific commands, it’s not a build system. The command is aliased to ujust in all Universal Blue images This allows us to ship common aliases and scripts through one unified command. It can run scripts, accept command line arguments, and gives us the flexibility to ship shared aliases. In Universal Blue we use ujust to have a set of community maintained aliases because that’s a really great cloud-native pattern that we c…