Pi Hole
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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.
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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.
While this may or may not be true of the community, it has nothing to do with my WTF.
Go back and look at that post. Seriously WTF.
If you want to run PiHole on a Hyper-V VM on your Windows 10 instance, then just make a f***ing VM on your Windows 10 Hyper-V instance and install it. The instructions are quite clear and dead simple for any OS without that disaster of a process that went through.
- Install OS in VM.
- Log in as root
- run install command.
curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash
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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.
I've not seen a single one that complained about this style of blocking. Because this is not an ad blocker, it's an ad url redirector.
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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 think you are confusing "not a fan" with "asking why you are a fan." Clearly you are a fan of DietPi, but I think we are wondering why. You seem to be using it in really weird situations.
In what way does it make Linux easier? Since DietPi requires complicated, speciality hardware it's not as simple as the normal options.
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I'm finally taking the time to sit down and install this on an Ubuntu VM right now.
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@ramblingbiped how did it go?
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Got this installed as a vm on my laptop, which will now use it's own local PiHole as the first dns server. Seems to be working well, haven't done a lot of web surfing yet, but I'm already telling a difference with those annoying "we want to show you notifications" boxes, they don't come up so often when using Chrome now.
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@travisdh1 said in Pi Hole:
Got this installed as a vm on my laptop, which will now use it's own local PiHole as the first dns server. Seems to be working well, haven't done a lot of web surfing yet, but I'm already telling a difference with those annoying "we want to show you notifications" boxes, they don't come up so often when using Chrome now.
I've done the same setup on my desktop and laptop for awhile now too. Its working pretty good.
Its setup on KVM while I'm using Fedora and on Hyper-V while I'm on Windows 10. Gotta love virtualization. -
@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:
@ramblingbiped how did it go?
I really like the design of the UI and they did a great job on installation and configuration of the software. I spun it up and changed the DNS configuration for my Google Fiber account so that all devices on my network get assigned PiHole for their DNS, and et voila; I'm in business.
I haven't really noticed any improvement in the quality of internet, but it seems to be working.
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My wife noticed most on her phone where ads that used to take up her screen had disappeared.
