Comment on POV) You use Windows 11 and set up Pihole for the first time.

bless@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• neveraskedforthis@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All hail GrapheneOS

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• ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Get a device that is supported by degoogled android systems and get rid of all the garbage. My recommendation is always GrapheneOS on a pixel, just because you can reinstall google play services if you really need to and preserve usability, while massively boosting privacy and security.

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  • dynamo@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unfortunately the majority of devices supported by degoogled android distros are straight garbage. LIke the pixel line. Best device i’ve seen would be Fairphone 3+, or Volla Phone 22

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    • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you say that you must have never used one. Pixels are objectively good phones by every measure except having an SD card slot, which they don’t.

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      • dynamo@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No microsd, no jack, no dualsim. So basically noone of the features i need. You know what i don’t need from my phone? A lot of processing power. Wtf would i even use that for, “Advanced Calendar”?

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• sheogorath@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Tikiporch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can put it on the network anyway, you just have to set it as the DNS for each device.

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    • bless@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Better to set the DHCP server to hand out the dns rather then set it device by device

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      • Tikiporch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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.

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  • fat_stig@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    10k calls per day…

    More than 1 every 10 minutes. Seems legit.

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    • Stumblinbear@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Calls as in network requests not phone calls

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    • meat_popsicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Telemetry DNS/API calls, not dialer calls.

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