SpacePuppy wrote:

Where is she hosted?

She is woman, ergo all over the place.   Honestly, my lovely Melon's has like 17 active email addresses - heck she has 3 different OneDrives, 2 GoogleDrives, a Dropbox and some other shit.  By way of example I found her Mobile Phone in the fridge one day...



I'll ask her.

Has anyone tried Pi-Hole yet?

Baywolfe wrote:

I don't have enough time left on this planet to devote even a single second to Linux or all its many flavors.

For the most part I fully agree with you, I lost interest in the O/S wars back in the late '80s

Emmeran wrote:

SpacePuppy wrote:

Where is she hosted?

She is woman, ergo all over the place.   Honestly, my lovely Melon's has like 17 active email addresses - heck she has 3 different OneDrives, 2 GoogleDrives, a Dropbox and some other shit.  By way of example I found her Mobile Phone in the fridge one day...
I'll ask her.

I have 4 email addresses, 2 personal Google accounts (and 2 I administer for volunteer groups I am involved with) 1 OneDrive (to my chagrin, since I lost everything I tried to migrate from my now-deleted 2nd OneDrive), and a Dropbox ONLY under duress, because that is how my printer ( Giclee of New England) delivers my hi-res files. For the record.

Yes, I have on occasion refrigerated my phone, but I'm pretty sure that's because it was overheating due to YouTube binging...

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GooberMcNutly wrote:

Emmeran wrote:

Has anyone tried Pi-Hole yet?

I run it at home. It does a good job and keeps more browsers from discovering that you are running an ad blocker, so showing you those annoying popups.

Only downside is that I take it offline from time to time because I also use the Pi for tinkering on and the fam gets twitchy when the DNS doesn't resolve 24-fuckin-7. It also doesn't seem to recover from ISP upstream DNS changes or router reboots very well, sometimes I have to power cycle it to get DNS back online if the ISP goes dark for any amount of time.

Holy shit it's fast though.

Emmeran wrote:

GooberMcNutly wrote:

Emmeran wrote:

Has anyone tried Pi-Hole yet?

I run it at home. It does a good job and keeps more browsers from discovering that you are running an ad blocker, so showing you those annoying popups.

Only downside is that I take it offline from time to time because I also use the Pi for tinkering on and the fam gets twitchy when the DNS doesn't resolve 24-fuckin-7. It also doesn't seem to recover from ISP upstream DNS changes or router reboots very well, sometimes I have to power cycle it to get DNS back online if the ISP goes dark for any amount of time.

Holy shit it's fast though.

I was out on vaca when I read the  PI-Hole story.  I downloaded Ubuntu Server and launched it in a VirtualBox environment.  Pi-Hole's download and install is pretty much one command line.

I do have a couple of problems.  First the web interface is kind of lack luster, which shouldn't be a problem, except that I was constantly going in to get the DNS to start working.  Something that other people were having problems with over on their forums. 

Anyway, this thread just reminded me that I need to get off my lazy butt and get it installed on a machine permanently.  I'll do that tomorrow, I guess.