It was definetly DNS
I’m in this meme and I don’t like it
Its a rookie mistake to implement a highly desirable, but low WAF (wife acceptance factor) solution to some shared resource.
The linked picture should have had a separate SSID that doesn’t route through Pihole, so if the raspberry pie dies, wife know to simply change the SSID she connects to.
I’m sort of that entire curve. My house is “I don’t care how you work, just work, okay?”
It’s probably an even bigger risk of everything falling apart.
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
This entire scale is trivial, and shows little understanding of technology.
The raspberry pi is extremely simple to use.
You must be fun at parties.
What parties?
I’d argue that a Pi can be as complicated as you want it to be to use. Using Pi-hole and having no redundancy in DNS demonstrates reasonably mediocre technical skill.
Just say it to my face, coward!
I feel attacked right now
This is a mistake you only make once, which is why I now have a dedicated dmz network for work equipment that doesn’t use the pihole for DNS resolution.
Or have 2 piholes on 2 separate pieces of hardware, giving you the opportunity to fix things should one go down.
I just have my router fail over to 1.1.1.1 if pihole disappears. (I don’t use pi-hole for dhcp). It saves my ass from this.
Interesting idea, may I know what router you’re using which supports this feature? One of the things I do like about having work related DNS going through pihole is I can create custom responses to trick my laptop into thinking it’s on the office network, which disables our VPN requirement. 😁
As far as I have seen, they all can do this. Just set your DNS to your pi and your second DNS to cloudflair or whichever.
If your pi is missing, it goes to the second listing
Fun fact, theres a linux Pihole.
I kept having issues with my raspberrypi so i put a linux VM on my trueNAS server, then Pihole on it.
Try adguardhome, it’s very simple to install and works like a charm
I plan on doing exactly this, but I was thinking I should have set up a raspberry pi for redundancy as well. Is that just silly?
PiHole doesnt run on Linux?
It does, im doing it right now
What the hell do you think Raspberry Pi’s run?! Linux!
But if you’re referring to PiHole running on X86_64 Linux… It does that too! :D
My NAS is currently sitting apart while I turn my wife’s old PC into our new media/game/whatever server, it’s been 3 weeks of different random shit not working/being forgotten (whoops, I tossed all my old sata cables! Oops, forgot that the PSU is shit and needs replacement! Oops, the dog PISSED ON JT AND RUINED THE MOTHERBOARD)
Wife is clearly annoyed that the automatic piracy machine isn’t working and has threatened to resubscribe to streaming services if I don’t fix it soon lol
(Just gonna upgrade my gaming PC and use MY old parts to cover the busted mobo I guess)
What, you took the old one offline before the new one was ready? What the hell, man
I am not made of money and cannot afford new drives, so once the backup was done I pulled em out thinking it was going to be a quick weekend job
Then… Life happened.
The REAL issue is the dog pissing on the mobo one night when I left the parts on the ground. He doesn’t do that usually so my guess is the Spray-Paint (I also painted the case) was causing doggy nose problems so he doused the smell or something. Took 2 days (I only have so much patience after work) of troubleshooting to figure out what fucking parts were functional after that.
This is not my first rodeo. No, I will never learn. If I still had my ADHD medication this would have been done in 1 weekend without issue but hey, I have broken brain!
Don’t work on electronics on the floor. Spread them across the dining room table so that it can’t be used for meals and your wife can complain about that, too!
When I had a dining room table I did that one time and earned anger.
Nowadays the only table big enough currently has a different project sprawled all over it because a part is on Back-Order, so I make due
Ok, clearly this one is on you. And I don’t blame your wife.
- You tossed out perfectly good cables. I’ve made this mistake too, so I feel your pain.
- You need to have at least two piles: one for working parts, and one for non-working parts. Any organization beyond that is icing on the cake.
- The cake is a lie.
- I have no words for how your dog was able to piss on your computer. I would suggest looking up clicker-based training and teach your dog to piss on the carpet and not the hardware.
I mean com’on. Those are all rookie mistakes!
You tossed out perfectly good cables. I’ve made this mistake too, so I feel your pain.
Ha ha, I haven’t!
<is consumed by giant pile of IDE, parallel, serial, VGA, telephone, USB A-B, RCA, and other assorted very obsolete cables>
And there will come a day where you will be asked for a cable, and eventually you’ll find it in the tangled mess of cables that you’ve put somewhere in your domicile, you’re sure of it, just give yourself a minute to check; hold on, you swear you have it, just give yourself a minute to find it…. No not that one, almost but not quite…. Ah ha! Found it… no, you’ll keep looking.
Jeez. I’m tempted to send you my old Dell R710. It’ll at least work. The system is pretty bulletproof.
You can generally get something newer with lower power requirements for cheap… So I won’t, but still.
Can confirm. Everything is broken. I wish I could say I was typing this on the laptop I built by duct taping a battery, a screen and a pi into a laptop but that doesn’t work either because I have to mod up a laptop keyboard fpga hackfuck first 🤷
this one feels “oddly specific”
Yeah sure but for some of us it’s not because we have over-complicated our homes.
It’s because we do “fix the damn tech” at work all day and are too damn old to do it at home as well!
You can always tell who is the car mechanic on the block. He drives the shittiest barely functional car.
And/or just cheap. So I end up replacing various parts in my laptop over the years, and solder a JR connector onto the charging connectors rather than just buying a new port
Oh yeah, I think a big part of it is not just what you can accomplish, but how efficiently/cheaply. Same with fixes, once they’re annoying enough to actually spend time on, lol.
This!
Get yourself a partner(s) who know a thing or two about tech and can at least perform basic troubleshooting and report to you.
Huge, thick cock but tiny brain and reeeeeeeeee? Pass. Small cock but can tell me when my homelab goes down, what services are actually affected, and suggest a solution that is plausible and is for up-to-date versions of X? Call in pizza and ice cream and clear your schedule, it’s sexy time. And they knew a temporary solution for the outage so they aren’t impacted while I was busy/away? Marry me.
There’s a lot of other factors but that defo plays a factor. Learn tech, get blowjobs. It’s that simple.
I can’t even do that for my own homelab. If restarting everything in order from most to least likely culprit doesn’t make it work again I’m usually fucked and looking forward to a couple hours of work.
Example: My “Smart” TV must have something like this in its code:
void main() { if(hasLocalIP && !hasInternetAccess) { randomlyQuitJellyfinEvery20MinutesOrSo = true; } startTV(); }This took 2 weeks of restarting, app reinstalling, factory resetting, OS updating, OS downgrading, OS updating but different method, etc. to figure out. I’m literally just unplugging its ethernet port before starting now, it’s that simple. I’ve never allowed it to connect to the internet though - no ad revenue for you, Google!
I fucking wish! Despite my profession and hobbies all being very technical I have never had a partner that knew anything beyond turning it off and on again 😭. I’d be eating them out like a bulldog with a jar of mayonnaise every night if they did! Though I guess I would do that if they didn’t too…🤔
I may need to rethink my approach…
Dang, I went small cock and reeeee. :)
But seriously, my partner is pretty nerdy, and while they don’t know exactly how everything is set up, they’re reasonably good at troubleshooting. I have a VPN set up, so if everything gets borked, I can probably fix it on my lunch break or something (or they can just turn it off and on again).
I’ve learned a long time ago, it’s harder to get an intrusive maintenance window at home than it is at work (unless you work in a hospital).
