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Category: Linux

Thoughts on 30 days without Windows (using Linux daily)

Aug 14, 2021nathanLinux, Windows

I have been without my PC for awhile now so have resorted to using my laptop which is a dell XPS running Manjaro. So far, it’s been fine and I haven’t needed to use Windows for anything however that does not mean there hasn’t been hurdles or difficulties along the way. I have been using…

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Pihole fails to start DNS Server after upgrade

Aug 14, 2021nathanLinux

You may encounter a problem when upgrading from 4.4 to the latest version of PiHole where the DNS server will not start up even though nothing is listening on that port to prevent it from starting. To fix this, I ran the following commands:

Installing cloudflared for upstream DNS to Cloudflare for Teams on PiHole

Aug 14, 2021nathanLinux

I have written this guide with the assumption that you’re using a debian or Ubuntu based environment. First SSH onto your system and running the follow commands to install Cloudflared: Verify installation by running: cloudflared –version Next we will configure cloudflared to run on startup under it’s own service account. Run: sudo useradd -r -M…

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Home Network Setup for security and privacy

Aug 14, 2021nathanLinux, Networking

I wanted to ditch using browser extensions for adblocking and do this via the network instead as blockers are often resource intensive and can be circumvented by advertisers to restrict access to websites. There is also very little way of doing it on mobile devices unless you root or jailbreak your device. With doing this…

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