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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • It works fine for where I am but using a privacy friendly alternative is going to come with downsides, as it depends heavily on crowd sourced data.

    Searching sucks big time for me too, as locations are not written in english here, you have to assume what the english transliteration might be. I just start with short close matches, and that usually works out after a little bit of digging. Google maps usually gives out most searched locations right away and often that’s you’re looking after.

    We can only hope It will get better as more people start using it




  • You get a raspberry pi. Then you get a durable SD card. You make the card bootable with the appropriate tool on your PC. While you’re on the PC, you can make additional configuration changes in text files to configure wifi network credentials, static IP address and others. WIFI credentials being most important if you don’t plan to connect it by ethernet or don’t have extra monitors, keyboards, and mouse.

    Then you place the SD card to the Pi and boot it up. It automatically connects to the WIFI using the credentials you set in the SD card. If you used an static IP address, use it to ssh into it. Then copy the pihole installation code from the pihole website. And you’re done.

    If you want to give pihole a try before you get a Raspberry pi, you can install it within other Linux OS, like Linux mint. You can move all the configurations by exporting them later.

    https://www.jucktion.com/pihole-adblock-linux-mint