Praise Idleness to TechnologyEnglish • 9 months agoPOV) You use Windows 11 and set up Pihole for the first time.sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square214fedilinkarrow-up11.27Karrow-down148file-text
arrow-up11.22Karrow-down1imagePOV) You use Windows 11 and set up Pihole for the first time.sh.itjust.worksPraise Idleness to TechnologyEnglish • 9 months agomessage-square214fedilinkfile-text
This is AFTER debloating all the MS bs as much as I can. The amount of MS telemetry is just mindboggling.
minus-square@sheogorathlinkEnglish6•9 months agoI used blokada on my phone and it blocked around 10k calls per day. I’ve since moved to use Mullvad as an always on VPN and turned all of the blockers on. Haven’t setup a pihole for my home yet because I didn’t have access to the router.
minus-square@TikiporchlinkEnglish9•9 months agoYou can put it on the network anyway, you just have to set it as the DNS for each device.
minus-square@blesslinkEnglish-1•9 months agoBetter to set the DHCP server to hand out the dns rather then set it device by device
minus-square@TikiporchlinkEnglish2•9 months agoDude said he couldn’t access the router, which I assume is handling his DHCP in this scenario. I could be wrong, but that would be unusual.
minus-square@fat_stiglinkEnglish0•edit-29 months ago 10k calls per day… More than 1 every 10 minutes. Seems legit. Do you have a number that’s 1 digit away from Dominos Pizza or something?
minus-square新星 [he/him/CPC bot]linkfedilinkEnglish4•9 months agoI think they meant their smartphone “calling home” not an actual phone call
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoTelemetry DNS/API calls, not dialer calls.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoCalls as in network requests not phone calls
I used blokada on my phone and it blocked around 10k calls per day. I’ve since moved to use Mullvad as an always on VPN and turned all of the blockers on. Haven’t setup a pihole for my home yet because I didn’t have access to the router.
You can put it on the network anyway, you just have to set it as the DNS for each device.
Better to set the DHCP server to hand out the dns rather then set it device by device
Dude said he couldn’t access the router, which I assume is handling his DHCP in this scenario. I could be wrong, but that would be unusual.
Yea I should read better
More than 1 every 10 minutes. Seems legit.
Do you have a number that’s 1 digit away from Dominos Pizza or something?
I think they meant their smartphone “calling home” not an actual phone call
@sheogorath can you confirm?
Yep I meant API calls when saying calls.
Telemetry DNS/API calls, not dialer calls.
Calls as in network requests not phone calls