While VPN's are great for virtual private networks (hence the name), it is often overkill if you just want to bypass a firewall or get an encrypted tunnel to protect yourself from snooping (e.g. on public Wi-Fi). More often than not, a VPN is also a paid service unless you [...]
As you might have heard or experienced, the Raspberry Pi 4 gets very hot. But there's a firmware update now that will reduce power consumption and heat generation! And it's effortless to do! Disabling automatic EEPROM updates I dislike automatic EEPROM updates because if an update fails or happens during [...]
Less than 24h ago, Pi-hole released an update to the Pi-hole core. The update is version 4.3.2 and it removes support for the adblock style lists. What does this mean for me? If you are using adblock style (format) lists - the lists you'd use in browser extensions like AdBlock [...]
Need a VPN to stay protected on the go while on public Wi-Fi but don't want to pay for a VPN provider? Here's how! Prerequisites This guide requires you to have a public IPv4 address pointing to your router, and you should be able to set up port forwards on [...]
Or: How to enhance the privacy of your Pi-hole If you use a Pi-hole like I do, you probably care about privacy in some form. If you do, you should disable query logging and here's why. There are 5 privacy levels in Pi-Hole's FTL DNS, going from 0 (show everything) [...]
Raspberry Pi TV HAT (source: raspberrypi.org) I just wanted to post a scan file really quick, which includes initial tuning data that can be used with (dvb)scan and tvheadend in Germany. What's special about this file is that it includes all possible frequencies for DVB-T2 in Germany. DVB-T2 in Germany [...]