Ha! I bought a Pi5 as a Christmas present for myself, I've only done some basic setup and gotten sidetracked by other projects - but setting up pi-hole is near the top of my list of sh*t to get done
Pi-hole v6
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Re: Pi-hole v6
#72I'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?
> Is this criticism unfair?
Only if you don't trust only Russians and no one else.
Re: Pi-hole v6
#73Earlier 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.
Yeah exactly, as also others point out in the thread, if you want "TV-sized monitor" you will pay more than for a TV, and probably get worse panel, lower brightness, etc. Hence it would be useful to buy "smart" TV and turn it into a monitor instead.
Re: Pi-hole v6
#74Re: Pi-hole v6
#75love 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
I also block Twitter ASN (yes, it is called Twitter ASN), and a whole bunch of IP ranges from not so democratic countries with very bad hostile actors. They don't have rule of law there, so I don't need these.
With regards to X. Blocking it serves as a good reminder to use a proxy, or try and find the source elsewhere (Blue Sky, Mastodon). More often than not, these exist.
Finally, if required I can use Tor Browser. No cookies, no profiling, no ads.
Re: Pi-hole v6
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
> Is this criticism unfair? Only if you don't trust only Russians and no one else.
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.
Re: Pi-hole v6
#77I'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
DoH is possible on pihole using cloudflared-- https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/.
> The cloudflared binary will also work with other DoH providers.
Re: Pi-hole v6
#78I'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?
Given that the whole thing is open source and it is possible to build it yourself, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Not that it means all that much, but AdGuard is headquartered in Cyprus, for what it's worth.
Re: Pi-hole v6
#79I'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?
>Is this criticism unfair?
Yes because you judge people by the country they live in. AdGuard has made their stance clear if something like this is important to you: https://www.reddit.com/r/Adguard/comments/t15gr4/announcemen... & https://adguard.com/en/blog/official-response-to-setapp.html
Re: Pi-hole v6
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I'd like to hear more about this. Can you provide an example of censorship on X?