LarenVisiting my parents for Christmas was a reminder of just how beleaguered the web is with ads by default; I work largely under the auspices of a pihole blocker with a fair few adlists set on it, so emerging from the umbrella can be a little of a shock.
But, these are my parents, and this is a solvable problem.
I have an old Pi Zero W that's fit for the job, with one of the little adafruit oled screens to plug onto the header. It used to be my pihole setup before I shifted it to a VM server, so it'll work. Just had to set up a few extra scheduled tasks to hopefully reduce the amount of headaches around stuff. To wit:
- A restart. Daily.
- Adlist updates. Daily.
- OS updates. Weekly.
- Pihole updates Weekly.
Had to set up the oled screen script as a service under systemd, but that's not *hard.* Just annoying.
Lastly, a full backup of the SD card, with an eye to potential issues down the road that can be solved with an emergency trip to best buy or whereever (hell, they sell the cards at drug stores, even) for a new card and a reimage with an update thereafter to bring it back up to date.
Done and done. Drop it in next time I'm there.
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