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Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by lotharcable2 »

progbits wrote: post #54
b3lvedere wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most non-smart 4K screens are more expensive than 4k-smart tv screens though. Really weird, because there's less stuff in it. I just want a nice 50" 4k screen with hdmi and display ports. I don't use all the other junk anyway, since i watch tv via a computer and sounds goes to a surround set.

Is there an equivalent of DDWRT/OpenWRT but for TVs? Most often those are some embedded linux board running some Android fork, shouldn't there be some TV models on the market that are a good hardware/price deal with firmware that can be replaced? Even something that just permanently shows HDMI input with no popup overlays would be good, but AOSP + VLC/Jellyfin would be even nicer.

> Is there an equivalent of DDWRT/OpenWRT but for TVs?

Get a used mini-pc, install Linux on it, and don't allow the TV to connect to any networks. This is a 50-75 dollar solution. Good if you are on a budget and are not interested in any wiz-bang features like HDR.

There are a few TV-dedicated Linux systems out there, like libreElEC.

Or get a more powerful system with a AMD GPU and install Bazzite on it. That way you get something like "SteamOS for your TV". Pairs nicely with controllers like 8BitDo.

It would be nice to have TVs as open as PCs, but the manufacturers and media companies are ran by dirtbags and would rather have victims then customers.

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by Netcob »

Finally a REST API!

I've been waiting for this - I wanted to play around with blocking distractions on various rules, but controlling pi-hole remotely was a huge pain and often didn't work until now.

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by woleium »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #89
woleium wrote: post #87

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Perplexity thinks so: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/i-d-like-to-use-cloudflare-...

Please don't use AI to write your comments. If I wanted to know what AI thinks I could ask it myself. I read the comments to get feedback from humans. Edit: OP edited their comment, was previously a very long AI-generated response.

Noted, won’t do it again :)

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by ziddoap »

skotobaza wrote: post #105
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #76

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I don't trust Iran, North Korea, or China either. It's not hard, I'm an American and it's 2025. These are our adversaries (I didn't choose them) who currently commit cybercrimes against us. Hopefully in 2035 that won't be the case and we can all sing kumbaya.

But if the binary came from US even with some malicious code, it would be OK simply because the origin is different?

>with some malicious code

Obviously not.

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

TheArcane wrote: post #102
Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #101

I love PiHole. I run my PiHole on a small cloud VM that I use for several projects, but put it behind a VPN that's configured to only forward DNS lookups, then VPN into it from my phone. So many advantages behind this setup. - Since only DNS lookups are tunneled, I don't have to worry about tunneling ALL my traffic and paying egress fees - Blocks ads in ALL apps, not just my browser - If it's acting up, I can just di…

> Don't have to expose my home IP address and open a port for the world to start banging on Is that really an issue if all you're exposing is the VPN port? Wireguard for instance has industrial-grade encryption. Even open port 51820 should be fine

I mean, probably not. But I like the idea of keeping everything closed anyways.

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by alabastervlog »

b3lvedere wrote: post #69
Jeremy1026 wrote: post #59

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> Really weird, because there's less stuff in it. It's also not subsidized by selling your user data.

Is this really true? The margin must be huge. I've seen 4K smart tv's for half the price of 4k monitors.

I've had a little insight into this world. To make the BOM costs work at the retail prices they charge for things like common set-top streaming boxes (e.g. Roku) and, now, TVs themselves since they incorporate the same stuff, they have to be selling data. Otherwise they're selling at a loss, once you factor in middleman margins and such.

You can try to compete by charging a reasonable amount for your hardware and software, but you'll be competing against economy of scale and wrestling for shelf-space with products that are (don't forget retail percentage mark-up) at least 30% cheaper than yours, which means your units don't move, which means you don't get (or keep) shelf space, and hello death spiral. Also if you somehow manage to make it despite that, as soon as an MBA gets in charge you'll just switch to selling data, too.

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by whalesalad »

zufallsheld wrote: post #25
whalesalad wrote: post #15

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it's more than that - an app running on your internal network is going to have way better latency than nextdns

However you can't use it on the phone while not at home (aside from using vpn/wireguard), but nextdns allows it. As for the latency - is it really noticeable?

dns latency is the single biggest reason people think their internet is slow imho

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by netsharc »

_chris_ wrote: post #97
wkyleg wrote: post #91

In my experience Pi hole is a very worthwhile investment. People who used my internet when I had one would remark how much faster it was. Everything in general seems faster, even things that you wouldn't think of. I typically use Brave for browsing which has good ad blocking capabilities, but this adds a whole additional layer. The only reason I don't use one now is that I travel a lot more so it's irrelevant, and I…

Wouldn’t a smart tv do something ... smarter than just using the default dns given to it by the network? I’m not up to speed on this stuff but I thought pihole only blocked the simplest stuff from devices that play nice?

Why should the programmers of the TV's OS look for edge cases, and do you think the TV makers would give them budget for that? For 90+% of users the standard config of trusting the DHCP server will work fine, and the Pi-Hole users will probably not give them money anyway, and will be dedicated to defeat their workarounds...

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by Novosell »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #86
laweijfmvo wrote: post #55

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I went from PiHole -> AdGuard -> NextDNS. My patience for tinkering and maintaining wasn't high enough to not just pay someone else to do it :)

The big benefit of running a DNS server locally is caching. Using any external provider means you have to go out to the internet for every single request. With a local server, most requests are fulfilled from the local cache.

Hmmm, my router caches DNS queries.
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