Been running an AWS Lightsail instance for years, and before that on prem. Don’t even notice it’s running! But when I see other people’s internet experience I’m left thinking, “What’s all this crap?!”
Ex-wife was bitching about my “blueberry pie” or whatever fucking up FaceBook links. FINE. Turned it off. “The internet’s slow!” Looked over her shoulder:
“See all that stuff loading? Ad, ad, ad, ad, ad, ad…”
“FINE! Turn it back on!”
Haven’t logged into my instance for a year or more, no maintenance. Going to move it back to a Raspberry Pi or a VM when I get motivated. On Windows 11 now and M$ totally hosed Hyper-V for desktop operating systems and I don’t want to spin another computer.
tl;dr: WELL worth spending an evening on the project. Hardest part is spinning up a Debian or Ubuntu server, VM or bare metal. The install is hilariously simple.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net/ | bash
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Comically enough I didn’t think about it long, I actually had it up and running on my jellyfin server by 11 this morning. Haven’t played with it much yet just set my router DNS to it.
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