It’s Pi Hole. Everything’s computer.

  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
    22·
    4 months ago

    I have a smart TV. It is connected to two things. The wall socket for power and HDMI #2 for my PC.

    Edit: Also I have a PFSense router, I use PFBlockNG to also block the IPs behind the blocked DNS entries. My phone is GrapheneOS and all of my computers are GNU Linux. Any blocked incidents I get are usually from websites. If I surf the web a lot in a month, I maybe get 200 blocked incidents. If my normie friends stay over with, for example, a Windows PC and an iPhone, I get 2000 per day. It’s wild what’s going on with these devices.

  • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    At this time I’d like to shill for Sceptre. They make tvs and monitors that don’t have all that stupid fucking “smart” features. I do not know of another brand that still makes dumb screens.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        I thought government regulation would prevent that? I thought the whole point of a Mac address was a unique id for hardware

        • Opisek@lemmy.world
          2·
          4 months ago

          Unique IDs are a privacy concern. Best you can tell by randomized MAC addresses is who the manufacturer of the device is and the type of device if you’re lucky (like when the manufacturer’s departments are internally split into separate companies), but that’s not guaranteed.

    • CatZoomies@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      LOL thanks bro. I was browsing the internet at AltaVista and downloaded a pi holo logo image that said transparent PNG in the name. When I added the image in Krita I had a good laugh and decided I’d leave it as is here

  • 𝔻𝔼𝕍𝕀𝕃𝕀𝕊ℍ@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    Buying old TV (as long as LED) or 2K resolution TV is still worth it for me because i don’t like Android TV, Smart TV, or other crap and shits. For me a TV doesn’t need to have that kind of features, if you want android just buy android tv box like NVIDIA Shield or Minix

    • Prox@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 months ago

      Couldn’t you just buy a new, awesome TV and then not hook it up to the internet?

      • Randelung@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 months ago

        It takes ages to boot, might have integrated offline ads, draws power when on standby for features you don’t want like remote controllability via network, and it’ll probably nag you forever to let it online. No thanks, a display will always just be that in this household. Separate concerns please, also easier to upgrade or replace.

      • Pope-King Joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        4 months ago

        Many newer smart TVs will literally not boot up past a certain point until you connect them to the internet to “activate” them. It’s actual madness.

      • Final Remix@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        That’s what I did with my brand new whatever-inch big fucking flatscreen. Like 80% of the buttons on the remote make a little notification come up saying the feature’s missing since the TV wasn’t set up “properly”, but it works fine.

  • BreadOven@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    I have an old raspberry Pi (512 mB one…maybe? It’s been a while since I hooked it up). Does anyone have a good guide to follow on setting up a pi hole?

  • Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    I love my PI hole but it’s needing a complete upgrade and a list rebuild. Damned thing is so reliable and solid I literally forget I’m running it. Things been up for over a year and not one issue.

    • CatZoomies@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      It’s because it got saved as JPEG in the title. Idk some kind of weird Lemmy bug or something , this totally was legitimate PNG I swear on me mum