How’s your wifi?
If it’s decent you can get away with a pi zero W. Otherwise getting a Pi 3 or 4 for the Ethernet is a good idea. The 2GB RAM models are fine. The only accessories you’d need are an Ethernet cable, an AC adapter, and a microSD card for storage.
Also, do you have a Microcenter? They stock Pis at MSRP without “kit” nonsense.
multiple friends who asked me this question and to whom I gave the very straight answer of “just get a Pi 3B+” wound up buying like, a Pi 4 with a whole desktop preinstalled on it for close to $100 and thinking they were supposed to plug it into a monitor &c. &c. &c. and I don’t know who is even selling all this to them
so here’s the thing: it should be a headless linux server. you buy a bare Pi, put a mostly-preconfigured raspbian image on an old microSD card, plug the card into the Pi and connect an old microUSB AC plug and plug it into your router directly via ethernet, and ssh to it to set it up until you can access the control panel in a browser. if you don’t know how ssh and all that works this is a good time to learn. don’t let yourself start worrying about Linux desktops and whatnot, that’s a distraction here.
I do have decent wifi, but will this route all my traffic through wifi even if I’m connected via ethernet? I only have my PC on ethernet but I do notice a very slight difference in speed. Otherwise this sounds perfect.
it’s not all your traffic, it’s just URL resolution, but I minmax the shit out of my wifi and I still wouldn’t want my DNS lookups to not be over ethernet
Yeah, “get away with” is the key there.
Yep! I’ll print you a case.
thanks yall!! this was way better than like, 45 minutes of googling.
just an FYI to not-Felix people, this is a total crank position and it is extremely hard to fuck up your network so bad that a couple of UDP packets have a bad time
the real problem with a Pi-hole is how your network completely bites the bag when the Pi is off. I run mine as a Docker container and configure my router to provide backup DNS in case it’s fucked
yeah I had that happen once and couldn’t figure out what was going on for a few minutes
this fixed it
(has gone up since i gave my router some fw rules to force apps w/ hardcoded dns to the pihole)
windows seems to have randomly lost a bunch of stuff from the start menu, i should probably use that powertoys run thing as a launcher instead huh
good lord
mine is tiny
but that’s since I actually invest in iOS adblockers and use a projector rather than a smart TV and the only set-top device I own is a PS4
the takeaway from this is don’t buy a firetv
Yeah 73.6% is… wow!
fwiw i do have 400k domains in my list, almost everything from https://firebog.net/
Gonna replace my 2016 laptop’s hard disc with an SSD. Looking forward to things being much more snappy, not locking up for 20 minutes whenever I restart the computer and the disc goes to 100% usage.
We were looking at this because these are almost exactly my wife’s colors but the price ($350) seems a bit much:
Looks like a big chunk of that is Massdrop charging $140 for just the keycap set:
However, looks like there are knockoffs for $60:
Any other ways or considerations to do this? From last time I checked, I assume the best route is ducky keyboard + keycap set?
Tenkeyless is her preference? Does she know what kind of switches she wants?
There are subtle differences in legend quality between GMK caps and the knockoffs but to be honest I always buy the knockoffs unless it’s a specific designer I want to support i.e. Magic Girl
Also GMK uses double-shot ABS whereas those knockoffs are PBT. Strong preference for PBT.
There are better options than Ducky, long story short.
Depends how particular you are.
If you are okay with the 84-Key layout than the no-name (YUNZII) hotswap keyboard is supposed to be pretty good, but that probably wouldn’t be as good a base as that CTRL High-Profile TKL keyboard.
The no-name comes with Gateron (brown or red) switches instead of Invyr Holy Panda switches, which may matter or may not matter if you already have something in mind for swapping in.
I’m not that particular myself, I just use a stock non-swappable Filco TKL.
