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I will never stop to talk about PiHole and how much changed my home browsing experience: https://pi-hole.net/ https://pi-hole.net/ I suggest everybody to give

I will never stop to talk about PiHole and how much changed my home browsing experience: https://pi-hole.net/ https://pi-hole.net/ I suggest everybody to give it a spin

whynotmaybe 4y ago
It also works on Roku. I know that ads are used to pay content creator on the web but I don't see why I should see ads on the home screen of a TV I fully paid.
- psychlops 4y ago
  The amount of times roku pings scribe.logs.roku.com just makes me angry. I let them see nothing.
snarf21 4y ago
We need a $20 appliance that is plug and play. Most users aren't installing Docker containers.
- hedora 4y ago
  Like a raspberry pi?
- int_19h 4y ago
  Most PiHole users aren't, either. You insert an SD card into a Raspberry Pi or similar, and it boots. Some people sell preimaged SD cards, some sell prebuilt devices - I've seen both on eBay.
- dvtrn 4y ago
  Crazy though, but hear me out: what about an old laptop
  - klez 4y ago
    I'm pretty sure they mean a pre-configured appliance, not something you have to provide the hardware for and install the software on on your own.
  - jeroenhd 4y ago
    That's my solution but it's bulky and consumes more power than it really needs to. The beauty of using the raspberry pi for these use cases is its small footprint and low power consumption. You can remove quite a lot of laptop and still keep a working machine (all you need is the power supply and the motherboard, really) but there's no quick and easy way to do it, you'd have to design a custom case and everything. You'd also need a laptop that will just power on without keyboard, screen, and other peripherals connected, which is not necessarily a given. Maybe if someone designs a modular enough 3D printed case design for common laptop motherboards so that you can create your own laptop server easily. In a few years, when USB C is available in cheap, old, second-hand laptops, I imagine you can build quite the home lab cluster with old laptop motherboards if you can design decent cases for them.
refracture 4y ago
I use pfsense+pfblockerng; the end result is similar. It was eye opening how much better browsing is for anything where uBlock isn't an option.
roncesvalles 4y ago
Why not just change your DNS server to one of the many free public ad-blocking ones?
- Havoc 4y ago
  Which one would you recommend?

I will never stop to talk about PiHole and how much changed my home browsing experience: https://pi-hole.net/ https://pi-hole.net/ I suggest everybody to give it a spin

whynotmaybe 4y ago

It also works on Roku. I know that ads are used to pay content creator on the web but I don't see why I should see ads on the home screen of a TV I fully paid.

psychlops 4y ago
The amount of times roku pings scribe.logs.roku.com just makes me angry. I let them see nothing.

snarf21 4y ago

We need a $20 appliance that is plug and play. Most users aren't installing Docker containers.

hedora 4y ago
Like a raspberry pi?
int_19h 4y ago
Most PiHole users aren't, either. You insert an SD card into a Raspberry Pi or similar, and it boots. Some people sell preimaged SD cards, some sell prebuilt devices - I've seen both on eBay.
dvtrn 4y ago
Crazy though, but hear me out: what about an old laptop
- klez 4y ago
  I'm pretty sure they mean a pre-configured appliance, not something you have to provide the hardware for and install the software on on your own.
- jeroenhd 4y ago
  That's my solution but it's bulky and consumes more power than it really needs to. The beauty of using the raspberry pi for these use cases is its small footprint and low power consumption. You can remove quite a lot of laptop and still keep a working machine (all you need is the power supply and the motherboard, really) but there's no quick and easy way to do it, you'd have to design a custom case and everything. You'd also need a laptop that will just power on without keyboard, screen, and other peripherals connected, which is not necessarily a given. Maybe if someone designs a modular enough 3D printed case design for common laptop motherboards so that you can create your own laptop server easily. In a few years, when USB C is available in cheap, old, second-hand laptops, I imagine you can build quite the home lab cluster with old laptop motherboards if you can design decent cases for them.

refracture 4y ago

I use pfsense+pfblockerng; the end result is similar. It was eye opening how much better browsing is for anything where uBlock isn't an option.

roncesvalles 4y ago

Why not just change your DNS server to one of the many free public ad-blocking ones?

Havoc 4y ago
Which one would you recommend?