Pi Hole
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@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:
@scottalanmiller said in Pi Hole:
@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:
The biggest win with this is mobile ads. Many mobile sites are practically unusable with Ads.
That's pretty nice. And it's all so easy, just happens on your network transparently once you add it to DHCP.
That's what I did
My roommate wants to know if we upgraded the internet lol
In a way, you did. The stats that I am seeing suggests that it is a little like getting an 8% boost!
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Very cool product, will have to check it out. Looks easy to use and the graphs are just neat.
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@quixoticjustin said in Pi Hole:
Very cool product, will have to check it out. Looks easy to use and the graphs are just neat.
I assume that's I can specify the forwarders that this will use? Because I am using strongarm.io and so not want to lose that service.
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@jaredbusch said in Pi Hole:
@quixoticjustin said in Pi Hole:
Very cool product, will have to check it out. Looks easy to use and the graphs are just neat.
I assume that's I can specify the forwarders that this will use? Because I am using strongarm.io and so not want to lose that service.
I'm sure that you can. During install it asks you to pick from a list of options (Google, OpenDNS, etc.) but I'm not sure how you determine it after the fact. But probably easy.
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@scottalanmiller said in Pi Hole:
@jaredbusch said in Pi Hole:
@quixoticjustin said in Pi Hole:
Very cool product, will have to check it out. Looks easy to use and the graphs are just neat.
I assume that's I can specify the forwarders that this will use? Because I am using strongarm.io and so not want to lose that service.
I'm sure that you can. During install it asks you to pick from a list of options (Google, OpenDNS, etc.) but I'm not sure how you determine it after the fact. But probably easy.
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Installed it last night on a Fedora VM. Works really well. Should have done it a long time ago.
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@brandon220 Me too!
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I was amazed at the stats page and how much was being blocked. Very big difference. There are a ton of sites that balk at using ad-blockers though.
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@brandon220 said in Pi Hole:
I was amazed at the stats page and how much was being blocked. Very big difference. There are a ton of sites that balk at using ad-blockers though.
There are ad blockers that block scripts balking at you for blocking ads.
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@brandon220 Is your internet faster? Mine seems to be...
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@aaronstuder I had to leave for flooding so I didn't get much testing done. I am back home now and plan on doing some testing tonight.
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@brandon220 said in Pi Hole:
@aaronstuder I had to leave for flooding so I didn't get much testing done. I am back home now and plan on doing some testing tonight.
Hope things in your locale aren't to bad with your return.
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@brandon220 said in Pi Hole:
@aaronstuder I had to leave for flooding so I didn't get much testing done. I am back home now and plan on doing some testing tonight.
Hope things in your locale aren't to bad with your return.
We too
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Pi-Hole is a dead simple install with DietPi. It's a check box. I downloaded the VMware VM and then used the Starwind Converter to convert the VMware image to .vhd so I could use it on my Windows 10 Hyper-V. DietPi has a VirtualBox VM as well for download. Or if you got a Raspberry Pi, use that.
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@gjacobse @aaronstuder We sand bagged our house and my brother's down the street. It was very close but all is good. It was worth all the effort. Many others were not as lucky.
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@magicmarker said in Pi Hole:
Pi-Hole is a dead simple install with DietPi. It's a check box. I downloaded the VMware VM and then used the Starwind Converter to convert the VMware image to .vhd so I could use it on my Windows 10 Hyper-V. DietPi has a VirtualBox VM as well for download. Or if you got a Raspberry Pi, use that.
WTF
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@jaredbusch Apparently this community is not a fan of DietPi. Forget I mentioned it. I just really like DietPi to mess around with because it makes playing around with Linux easier. I'm a complete Linux noob.
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@magicmarker said in Pi Hole:
@jaredbusch Apparently this community is not a fan of DietPi. Forget I mentioned it. I just really like DietPi to mess around with because it makes playing around with Linux easier. I'm a complete Linux noob.
It's pretty common around here to have people ask you why you're trying to use a non standard distro/application for something.
DietPi in this case probably adds some overlay features to make things easier for the novice, but I get the impression that those around here believe that using those crutches does nothing but put you the user in a bad spot in case something bad happens. This is mostly due to not knowing what those overlays are doing, and since you don't understand what they are doing, then you can't fix those things.
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@magicmarker said in Pi Hole:
@jaredbusch Apparently this community is not a fan of DietPi. Forget I mentioned it. I just really like DietPi to mess around with because it makes playing around with Linux easier. I'm a complete Linux noob.
I don't think that it's unliked (although it very well could be) it's that it has no business application. It makes messing with Linux easier... but it also obfuscates the processes to getting these applications and systems running. Making it harder for you to troubleshoot and maintain systems in the long run.
It's also a new OS with very little community support and no enterprise backer. Meaning it doesn't make sense in a server environment where stability is the key.
