Yes I am showing off about my great leap forward in tech, and yes I still know nothing…
I built a Pi-Hole. A what? A weeny device that you plug into your router and it lets (almost) no adverts come into your house/phone/laptop. Why on God’s Earth would you not want this? It’s like coming up for air.
I’m not going to explain how here because I still don’t know… and that’s because there was some decent AI involvement too. I had a Raspberry Pi knocking about - because I bought one and was too thick to make it do anything until AI matured sufficiently for me to no longer have to lean on tech-savvy mates.
So I asked Claude. I was all “please give me an illustrated walkthrough for how to create a Pi-Hole with a Raspberry Pi 4” and Claude coded in front of my eyes an illustrated walkthrough for how to do it in a sidebar in my browser. Bosh.
Admittedly it took another hour of me asking for clarification because some instructions (“Connect via SSH from your computer”, amongst many others) were beyond me, but even those clarifications were straightforward.
If I ran into a snag (“When connecting via SSH it says ‘username@192.168.1.108's password:’ but the password I entered when installing the OS does not work (permission denied). What is wrong?”) Claude listed things to isolate the problem and solutions for it. Just… Bingo.
It helped also to find in my router admin page where to find DNS settings because I couldn’t be bothered hunting around the quite clunky interface. Basically, it was properly nice to be able to ask embarrassingly naïve questions and get clear strategies for what to do.
And now - NOW - I have zero ads. It’s nuts. I keep opening https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ just to look at it. NO ADS AT ALL. Click on it, I dare you. ALl I get is content. Fucking shite content, but ad-free shite.
AD-FREE!
