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Pi-hole DNS Server PT1 https://pi-hole.net/ Network-wide Ad Blocking I have had a Pi-hole set up near my cable modem for at least 1-2 years now? Time moves differently for me for the last 18 months. Regardless, my Pi-hole device just sits there, filtering out ads from the network. I highly recommend setting up a Pi-hole for your home. It's cheap, easy, effective and efficient! What is it? A cheap Raspberry Pi computer with an SD card. Gets power from a phone charger and connects with a simple Ethernet cable. Runs passively without any fans at about 37 degrees C. How do you use it? You can set it up as a Wifi source, or you can add the IP address in your wifi settings for DNS server. Use the same IP address in your web browser to see a web interface. From there you can modify the whitelist/blacklist and see in real time how many ads are being rejected. How do you set it up? There are many guides. Here is a good one: https://www.instructables.com/Pi-Hole-Setup-Guide/
Pi-hole DNS Server PT2 Essentially, what is involved? You flash a linux OS for Raspberry Pi onto your SD card using something like the Balena Etcher. I prefer "dietpi", which is a low resource Debian distro. https://dietpi.com/ A simple 8GB or higher card will suffice. Then you install Pi-hole on it. How do you maintain it? Every now and then, it's good to log into it with SSH and run a "sudo apt update/upgrade" (if you choose a Debian distro). That's it. I have over 4 million domains on my blocklist and it makes a HUGE difference when I load websites without Pi-hole DNS configured in my wifi settings. Bonus: You can SSH into it and install lynx, mc and any other useful linux terminal programs and have fun with it. As a double-bonus, you could even run a website or music streaming service using it!
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#3 There are countless Youtube videos from South Asia explaining how to use "ethical hacking tools" (LOL) like HASHCAT & Mimikatz yet the leader of the free world was banned. Go figure. I'm sure Windows 11 will fix everything. That's great, it starts with an earthquake, Birds and snakes, an aeroplane Lenny Bruce is not afraid. The real prize is IOS though. "zero day" attacks for sale on the black market I'm 100% sure alphabet agencies and the PRC can figure out how to use bitcoin. What a world. The fact that everyone and their uncle is demanding your real phone number, biometrics and other private data to operate without anonymity should be a concern. But facebook and candy crush.
How many likes can I get for this Shorted stocks right now...what's happeppeeennning to our EMPIRE
I don't know anything about shorting stocks. NASDAQ goes up forever man. To the moon! LMAO
Will look into the pi-hole idea, walkman. Thanks for posting it. I vaguely remember reading about years back but never had the time to deal with it. Now I have a few Raspberry Pi computers and only one is really doing much right now. That's the old 2B I use for uploading weather station data.
If you are into various "retro" computer systems and video games, there's a Hardware emulation platform using FPGA created by Terasic called "DE10-Nano Kit". An open source hardware add-on called MiSTer gives the FPGA hardware additional functionality, including an integrated USB hub, SDRAM, VGA video, analog out via headphone jack, and many other functions. DE10-Nano Specs: 110K LEs; 5570 Kbits Embedded Memory; 6 PLLs; 2 Hard Memory Controllers 800MHz Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 Process; 1GB DDR3 SDRAM; 32-bit Data Bus 1 Gibabit Ethernet PHY; USB Micro-AB Connect; Mirco SD Card Socket The board can run linux and comes with an SD card with linux pre- installed. I setup a guide to set this up here: https://distantdark.com/2021/10/16/the-mister-fpga/
Meet an unsung hero of the emulation scene. I have fond memories of using his MSX emulator on the ancient 386 with Windows 3.11 (at work circa 1997). It (the pc) was slow as hell but Marat s emulator ran full speed. Marat Fayzullin https://fms.komkon.org/ He created the second Nintendo emulator in history and end up doing work on many other systems.
Back then, I think most professionals had much newer computers at home than they did at work. I think in 97 I had a 233 mhz pentium and upgraded to a pentium ii which wasn t that much faster.
Absolutely, walkman. I've always had a better computer at home than at work. They don't seem to mind if you sit there and wait for things to happen at work. Makes no sense to me. Where I work, you have to wait 5-6 years to get a new computer, but it won't be new. It'll be one they pulled after someone left. I didn't like the first laptop they gave me so I had to have a vice president approve (he said he had no problem). It's still not very fast but much better than the dual core laptop they gave me to replace my old dual core laptop. Go figure.
#11 Same here! I've had my HP laptop for six years already and it wasn't new when I got it. When I'm doing heavy work, the fan on the side is super loud and blasts hot air. I figure eventually it will just cook itself. LOL I looked up my work laptop on ebay, which averages about $200. Fancy! There's never enough money in the budget for new laptops but they can spend money letting me spin my wheels waiting for processes and starting over when applications crash. *slaps forehead*
This the same model laptop. Same specs and everything. https://www.ebay.com/itm/234257499118? hash=item368ad5c3ee:g:s~4AAOSwbiRheGNz Just think, a big corporation has people working "from home" 8-10 hours a day on ancient $200 machines. Seems incredible to me.
I'm a strong supporter of RDP into VMs. If you have connectivity and decent graphics then you can remote into your workstation and never have to worry about your hardware failures or lost backups. The employer can then just add RAM, CPU, or storage on the fly. Most companies aren't willing to flip the bill for that though. They dont seem to care until your old POS laptop they supplied either crashes or gets nailed by ransomware. And you know what the best recovery from ransomware is? Fresh backups. Wipe and restore - simple.
Run an ancient 386SX (slightly upgraded 286) as a 486? Madness! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhqZiMhe5UA Or just throw the whole thing in a dumpster and buy a $35 Raspberry Pi, overclock it and buy a pizza. Kidding aside, I can imagine how nuts it would have been for an office to save tens of thousands of dollars circa 1995 by upgrading all of their 386 computers with this little processor add-on and squeeze out maybe 2-3 more years. What would you call this little gadget? A processor hat? Before Adrian installed it, I guessed wrong that it would have been installed in the math co-processor socket.
Adrian often shows modern hardware to use with old computers. It's interesting to some people to see an old PC get speeded up even if you have no use for it. To each his own.
RE: 16 Ha ha ha yes. To many, I must have very strange youtube viewing habits. I also love videos from people living in their cars, vans, tiny homes. There's something about "the right to repair", DIY, "reuse, recycle"... it's a middle finger to being a debt slave and being dependent on others. If I wasn't in my 50's and were more like 20, I'd be living in an Econoline van, working contract jobs around the country. We don't know what 2022 will bring us, so who knows? LOL *cringe* With Adrian's videos, his ingenuity, persistence, and resourcefulness are interesting to watch. Plus he goes down tech rabbit holes so we don't have to. I also think it's great that one day, curious people will look to his videos for a historical lesson.
Create your own music streaming device with Volumio: https://distantdark.com/2021/11/25/volumio-the-diy-media-streamer/
Modern PC gaming with a Debian-based Linux system: https://distantdark.com/2021/11/23/gaming-on-your-debian-based-linux- computer/
re #19 If I could get Steam to run on Crouton (a chromebook) it'd be pretty awesome. However, 'modern PC' implies a decent graphics card. To me, much of this comes down to how much Wattage I'll need. I'm in a van down by the river scenario.
#20 Steam is interesting. If you have a computer with a great graphics card and a good home network, you can stream the Steam games onto a laptop, TV, raspberry Pi etc. Apparently, there is some form of Steam support for Chromebooks: https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-install-steam-on-chromebook- 1144719/ Your mileage may vary. To be honest, my gaming is more Mario, Kirby, MsPacman and Galaga than Halo. So my little $200 Nintendo Switch Lite is the best gaming experience possible. I have nothing against the more modern games but I just don't enjoy running around with a giant gun murdering people. I do enjoy modern racing games though. It's absurd that people spend thousands to play video games but then again, there are people that buy boats that cost $500,000+ in Metro Detroit.
For $300k, you can poop next to the sink while your friends watch https://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/boa/d/grosse-ile-2016-sunsation-34-ccx/ 7414 238885.html
Yeah, you would think they could have, at the very least put curtains around that toilet.
Curtains will cost you extra. Do you want the Kid Rock curtains or the King Kwame ones?
I want curtains from the My Pillow grifter guy. For an extra $200 you can get Sidney Powell to sign it, "If I killed myself, it was Hillary."
I thought it was Winnie the Pooh but his name was Newt
https://nypost.com/2018/10/13/how-clinton-and-gingrich-started-the-great- american-divide/ 2024, if we ever get there will be interesting. If there ever was a case that Trump was a globalist agent, it could be made now with him going around with Bill O'Riley promoting the vaccines while the crowds boo. I don't think even 5% of his base are for vaccines and 0% are for mandates. 2024, if Trump runs will be like Romney vs Obama. Anyone the left runs will win. Trump needs to step aside and let someone like Desantis run. For FUCK'S SAKE!!!!!
doubleplusgood double-plus good double plus good ++good Antonyms: ungood, double-plus-ungood https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/the-terrifying-story-of-how- qanon-infiltrated-moms-groups/
re #28 I'm a NextDoor moderator (for several accounts - ask me how I did that.) What you see as a moderator reveals quickly who is pulling strings in your community; and by community we can be talking a few blocks or a Congressional district *wink wink* It has been a lesson in "what FB, IG, Dischord, Whatsapp, etc potential looks like" I had a mayor pro-tem interview the hell out of me before making me a mod for my own neighborhood. She uses an alias "don't tell anybody who I really am" There are fringe websites claiming she does kooky things like surveil her adversaries or naysayers - I can validate that. However this is a person with power to do things to people such as that white bicycle with candles I pass every day...a dead cop who got run off the road bicycling that was one of her worst critics. That's just a sample platter. Moms' groups is a real thing. We have Katie Porter in our District - just a little while longer since the gerrymandering by Congress recently. Katie got into our district who "WHO THE F#@& KNOWS" method because it's staunch conservative and she's a puppet for VP Harris and the Left. My living room TV died recently and as an EET it's a cakewalk to fix but I haven't and won't. There is no good which can come from the media nor the streaming channels. My kid asked me about Boba Fett and I told him DisneyPlus is the Devil and we dont pay for that because my pronouns will stay intact. Want to take an even deeper dive? Watch The Way Of The Dog and tell me what the takeaway message is....it's more blatant than the 'war' movie Thin Red Line which was another pedo freak movie. Hey, if you like HP Lovecraft and the Egyptian boy he brought with him to his Andy Warhol parties then I can't help you. Why did Epsteins guards get off the hook for letting him hang while they played online games?
1. They pyramids of Giza and the pyramids of Teotihuacan both align perfectly overhead to Orion's Belt. There are further monuments at Teotihuacan that also align with other stars beyond Orion. 2. A 15 year old boy found a lost Mayan city by overlaying star maps over ancient temples. "X" marks the spot. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-36259047 3. How did ancient man calculate with exact precision, immense monuments that line up perfectly overhead to stars in the sky? 4. *Why* did ancient man line up immense monuments who's precise alignment appear to match stars only to those FLYING above? 5. How did two civilizations separated by time and thousands of miles create similar monuments that both aligned to the same stars without knowledge or communications with eachother?
resp:30 1., 2.: Cool! 3.-5.: You're not saying it aliens ... but it's aliens? Don't sell human ingenuity short.
I'm just asking questions. Yes, humans are intelligent. Archaeologists and historians are afraid to connect the dots are ask the obvious questions because doing so threatens the past work their current beliefs are based on. The almost exact similarities with archaeological structures spanning the globe (construction methods & building shapes), belief systems, religious themes (men from the sky, floods, creation myths, etc.), and culture can't be explained away by coincidence IMO. If we can rule out aliens and conclude smart humans, we should then ask why civilizations, written history and monuments didn't appear before 10,000 BCE. Homo sapiens emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago...
Civlizations are 5k years old but homo sapiens are 300k years old. From 300,000 to 300 BCE...what kinda freaky carnival circus was going on with homo sapiens that all of a sudden 5k years ago they started to commune and farm? Were they living on ice where nothing grew? Were their asses being chased too frequently to stop and smell the roses? Did they decide to walk upright? Were they domesticated by ET and observed how to behave as a society?
#33 That's what I'm saying. If we extended the "humans were always great builders of civilizations", we could then go down some roads. One road that you cited is flood/ice/uninhabitable earth. With that we can say that humans may have had a limited ability to convene and learn from each other to evolve their civilization. There's another intriguing road: great civilizations have come and gone but were lost. Spooky and cool. Did they escape earth with rocket ships and evolve elsewhere? Are *they* the aliens visiting earth? Or did they just die out and or were their cities now under water? So many questions. Were they more or less advanced than we are? Did they have intriguing customs, languages, myths, inventions, etc? What we do know is that we find ancient homo sapiens buried with simple tools and that there is cave art, which by the way experts claim the oldest is 35,400 years old. What were the ancient men portraying? FUCKING ALIENS. Space ships, aliens, weird shit and of course, animals and hand prints.
Most evidence of Mu, Atlantis, and Hyperborea was wiped out in the Deluge.
re #35 The Polish 1600s uprising?
resp:36 "Apre`s moi, le de'luge."
Ruine, si tu veux, quand nous sommes morts et partis
This is outstanding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHpC85p0ZM0
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