Ironically their website has been hugged to death.
I don't think you know what irony means.
At this point we should accept the vernacular use of the word as correct.
Pi-hole v6
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Re: Pi-hole v6
#62love pi-hole we block all meta and X properties from our home network, also ads and it's self hosted on our own metal it's a wonderful life
Good way to teach other members of your house to use VPNs to bypass your censorship regime
meta and X are both heavily censored so I guess it's censors all the way down?
Re: Pi-hole v6
#63Earlier 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.
Isn't a TV that permanently shows HDMI input a big monitor?
Weirdly they always seem to be more expensive than a TV though.
Re: Pi-hole v6
#64Earlier 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.
Would be fun if some could hack those os'es indeed.
It could make a nice CrowdSupply project, except for the cheap distribution of the huge packages. Sounds not that hard though: Just get some nice 50" 4k smart tv's and remove all the junk. Cool features like DP daisy chain or something and one could have a nice project. But i'm guessing there is (too) much money to be made in user info and ads. :(
Re: Pi-hole v6
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Isn't a TV that permanently shows HDMI input a big monitor? Weirdly they always seem to be more expensive than a TV though.
Well yes, but i guess either big monitors use different panels or there's some shady business going on.
Re: Pi-hole v6
#66I've been using AdGuard Home, which does pretty much the same thing, but is slightly better polished, with things like support for DoH and OSs other than Linux. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome
I love AdGuard Home but the single binary container from a Russian company makes me nervous. I may move to building it myself. Is this criticism unfair?
Re: Pi-hole v6
#67I 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…
> 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.
Re: Pi-hole v6
#68I’ve been happy with AdGuard Home on two Pi4s and a little home server for years now: https://adguard.com/en/adguard-home/overview.html I have some scripts to sync config between them and a Jenkins job if I want to pause blocking on them for a bit. It looks like https://github.com/mattwebbio/orbital-sync and https://github.com/lovelaze/nebula-sync can sync configs with Pi-hole 6 now, but it’s quite a bit of code for…
A Raspberry Pi with Alpine Linux makes a sweet little DNS server. AdGuard Home is even packaged in the testing branch[0] these days
[0] https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=adguardhome&arch=
Re: Pi-hole v6
#69Earlier 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.
> 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.
Re: Pi-hole v6
#70I've been using AdGuard Home, which does pretty much the same thing, but is slightly better polished, with things like support for DoH and OSs other than Linux. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome
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 :)
Yeah +1 for NextDNS. It's so easy to setup and manage, and works really well.