This is, the Pi would only handle dns queries, which is a very light weight protocol. The rest of your network traffic wouldn’t touch the Pi at all. The thing is, since the ad blocking sits at the DNS resolver, the pi can provide ad blocking even for things you couldn’t dream of having ad block on otherwise. I’ve seen…

Yeah, the thing is, dns is a pretty lightweight protocol. I have twenty odd devices on my network between pc’s, phones, smart devices all of them chatting away. My current load averages: Load: 0.29 0.16 0.1

If you've got some technical knowledge, you should check out pi.hole. It's an open source dns server designed to run on a raspberry pi (or a docker image or a Linux machine), which serves as an ad blocker at the DNS level. It will let you block sites at the domain level (with regex support too!). It works great for…

I go a step further and block the update servers at the firewall. Too often I’ve disabled updates and had Windows go out and start updating anyway and inevitably force an update reboot while I’m working on something. Then, after something has been out for a while I go out and manually download the roll up updates they…

They really should expand that app to let you grab screenshots directly though..

I recently had to reset my ps4 due to a power loss corrupting the hard drive and lost all my screenshots and videos. It would be nice if they’d sync to a cloud service like Google photos or Amazon... It’s be super easy to share from there. Hell, for that matter I used to have to send screenshots/vids to Facebook just…

Interesting! How do I install this sneakernet app??

I second the Aeron chair actually. I got mine used for a fraction of the price of a new one AND it's basically the most comfortable chair over ever sat in. I also add that I've had mine for a decade and it has held up just fine. Oh, also, I have a bad back and the Aeron is one of the few chairs that I never have an…

I second the Aeron chair actually. I got mine used for a fraction of the price of a new one AND it's basically the…

Yeah I think the odds of Moscow Mitch and his other cronies in the senate actually vote to convict is pretty much nil. Hell, I’ll be surprised if it even gets so far as a trial. What I’m expecting is several months of stonewalling and then the whole matter will be dropped. Maybe there will be a vote to impeach, but it…

The way he throws around words like coup and treason makes it clear that this orange gorilla thinks this is some kind of monarchy, with him as the Supreme Overlord. It's disgusting and terrifying how many people seem to agree with him.

Yeah, I have to agree... I think I’ve run into a griefer maybe once or twice in the last three or four months?

I don't know, I have my doubts that a GTA VI will happen, or if it does that it'll even have a single player mode. I guess we'll see though, I hope you're right!

While I hate the term missing out, I do have to strongly recommend the single player game. It was excellent! However if you’re playing other stuff you’re enjoying, who cares if you’re ‘missing out’, you do you.

I had no real interest in this game until I saw the other article about the customization options and then I started reading every word kotaku has written about it...

Monday: “no collusion folks! No collusion!”

True, we need a catchy nickname for this thing. Hmm... UkraineGate is a bit heavy in the mouth. BribeGate? PhoneGate? ComplaintGate? These things all have to end in ‘Gate’, I think a law was passed in ‘15

... And anyone else who speaks English isn’t hurt in any way by having it dubbed/subbed into French or Italian. They can still watch it in English as the “artist intended” and they lose nothing by someone else being able to laugh at it in a foreign language.

So how exactly is it watered down for you to have an extra option on the menu that you are not forced to choose? My best friend is an avid gamer, but he’s also disabled - he loves games but certain button combinations and certain mechanics are difficult or impossible to him. People complain about mimimaps and mission…

In general I couldn't care less about the opinions of celebrities, but this, I can get behind. I bought cup head after a *very* long deliberation, and I've barely gotten anywhere with it because I just don't have the time deal with the difficulty of it. Which is a shame, I love everything else about it.

Ugh, I hate vaping so much. I’m convinced someone just said “how can I make smoking even more obnoxious?”