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Pi-hole v6

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Post by globular-toast »

timoteostewart wrote: post #67
josephg wrote: post #34

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> For my "smart tv" which I begrudgingly have to allow on my network occasionally for software updates Why install software updates if you don’t use the “smart” features? Our smart tv has been banned from the internet for years.

I imagine software updates might bring improved support for various media codecs, or UI enhancements, or better Bluetooth compatibility, etc.

Yes, those are the "smart" features. Just plug in a Raspberry Pi and don't touch the TV after its initial setup. I'm still using the same Raspberry Pi 2 I've been using for more than 5 years now. Beats "smart" TVs that you can buy today.

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Post by Mekoloto »

andy_xor_andrew wrote: post #21

I set up pi-hole recently after hearing about it for years. I was kind of surprised at a lack of really basic features (imo): There isn't any kind of "dry run" or "phantom" mode, where requests are not actually blocked, but appear marked in the log UI as "would be blocked". This is super important because I want to see all the things my home network is doing that would be blocked before I actually hit the big red but…

You need to put your SmartTV on a different VLan.

The biggest risk is not samsung knowing what someone watched but what devices you have on your lan

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Post by urbanporcupine »

I am a beginner and never used Pi-Hole before.

I checked that Pi-Hole can run on Raspberry pi zero as per the GitHub. But would you recommend to use Raspberry Pi 5 2 GB or 4 GB RAM instead of Raspberry Pi zero. I don't have any Raspberry Pi and I intend to make a new purchase.

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Post by itsoktocry »

globular-toast wrote: post #241
timoteostewart wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine software updates might bring improved support for various media codecs, or UI enhancements, or better Bluetooth compatibility, etc.

Yes, those are the "smart" features. Just plug in a Raspberry Pi and don't touch the TV after its initial setup. I'm still using the same Raspberry Pi 2 I've been using for more than 5 years now. Beats "smart" TVs that you can buy today.

>Raspberry Pi 2

Isn't that the one with the network speed capped at 100MB/s and no capability to stream HEVC files?

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Post by sizzle »

brummm wrote: post #137
martin_a wrote: post #132

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I think my PiHole is up for 3+ years on a Raspberry Pi dedicated to that task. Did not fail once since then, so not sure if "DNS is going down" is really an issue. But maybe I've got survivorship bias.

Living in a North American city with power wires being above ground, I have had so many power outages in the last five year, it was kind of a crazy thing to get used to. My Pi would not deal well with power outages when running through the SD card and so I stopped using it.

I ran it on an old laptop and never had issues. The extra ram and cpu + actual disk hd gave me ~99% uptime even after power outage no sd card corruption. Laptop auto rebooted on crash too.

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Post by theshrike79 »

urbanporcupine wrote: post #243

I am a beginner and never used Pi-Hole before. I checked that Pi-Hole can run on Raspberry pi zero as per the GitHub. But would you recommend to use Raspberry Pi 5 2 GB or 4 GB RAM instead of Raspberry Pi zero. I don't have any Raspberry Pi and I intend to make a new purchase.

The 5 is completely overpowered and overpriced to run Pi-hole. Go with the zero instead.

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Post by theshrike79 »

skotobaza wrote: post #226
theatomheart wrote: post #188

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This seems like woefully naive virtue-signaling to me. I geo-block all traffic from Iran, N Korea, China and Russia specifically at my clients' firewalls because I have watched the logs and could clearly see IPs from each of these countries attempt connections to American businesses every minute of every day. Try to single out the offending IP and tomorrow it moves to another; you will spend the rest of your days add…

The question is why those specific countries? Do you just assume that all connections made from, say, Netherlands, are safe by default?

Basic statistics. The chance of someone from Netherlands being a state-level hacker is a lot smaller than someone from a Russian IP.

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Post by doubled112 »

itsoktocry wrote: post #244
globular-toast wrote: post #241

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Yes, those are the "smart" features. Just plug in a Raspberry Pi and don't touch the TV after its initial setup. I'm still using the same Raspberry Pi 2 I've been using for more than 5 years now. Beats "smart" TVs that you can buy today.

> Raspberry Pi 2 Isn't that the one with the network speed capped at 100MB/s and no capability to stream HEVC files?

It only has a 100Mbps Ethernet jack, yes, but so do both of my TVs.

I don’t have any HEVC media so I’m not sure there, but the lack of 4K output would be a big stopper for me.

I’m also not sure about the streaming services it would support, but chances are if your running off of a Pi2, you’re sailing the seven seas for media. Will that thing even play YouTube in a browser at this point?

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Post by munbun »

AnonC wrote: post #212
shmoogy wrote: post #57

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If only they had a stop blocking function.

NextDNS has not updated its client applications on multiple platforms (iOS/iPadOS/macOS) for several years. Those client applications did have the ability to stop the blocking (or not), but now it's just a toggle that does nothing. Most of the time when I visit test.nextdns.io it shows as "unconfigured" even though the NextDNS client is installed and configured with a NextDNS profile (and approved in Settings as a VP…

I use Tailscale as my primary interface for handling this. Simple as adding your nextdns id number in the DNS settings and you are done.

Instruct your Tailscale invitees to download the app and voila, simply toggle it on or off as needed.

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