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I have an old raspberry Pi (512 mB one…maybe? It’s been a while since I hooked it up). Does anyone have a good guide to follow on setting up a pi hole?
Block it by MAC address at the router. That’s the only way to know for sure.
Randomized MAC addresses: Bonjour
I thought government regulation would prevent that? I thought the whole point of a Mac address was a unique id for hardware
Unique IDs are a privacy concern. Best you can tell by randomized MAC addresses is who the manufacturer of the device is and the type of device if you’re lucky (like when the manufacturer’s departments are internally split into separate companies), but that’s not guaranteed.
New TVs will connect to other smart TVs that have been connected to the Internet.
You straight up have to pull their chips now if you really want to be sure.
This is the first I’ve heard of such a thing. Like TVs connecting to one another through Wifi Direct or BTLE and tethering their internet connection? Can you link to anything discussing this?
Hmm, I recall reading a couple articles about it a year or so ago but nothing is coming up in searches.
I’m not sure if that means it was vaporware, misinformation, or coming soon to a Google TV near you. Anyone that’s more familiar with network capabilities is free to correct me, but as far as I’m aware if your TV even has Bluetooth it’s already capable of doing this at some level.
Either way you’ll catch a smart appliance in my house when I’m dead.
? If you’re going to block 1 Smart TV from the Internet. Why wouldn’t you do it to all the TVs on your LAN?
In theory, as every smart TV might act as an access point, it’d be sufficient to be in the range of your neighbors smart TV.
Oh shit I didn’t think of that.
Because the range could include things like the apartment, condo, or even house next door.
Unplug your TV from the internet and plug the HDMI into a machine running Kodi or similar.
Lmao but the Nvidia shield also have bullshit ads
If you’ve got the hardware capabilities, I just Read yesterday that Kodi supports CEC and can be used to control your DVD player or Set Top boxes that also support it IF you have it plugged into your CEC port.
This means turning a raspberry pi into the best media access client there is for a TV takes like 20-40 minutes (install librelec, profit?)
Mine ignores it and does its own DNS.
Not even connecting these devices to the Internet.
Time to do the ol’ firewall redirect for port 53
I do that with my mikrotik router. It is amazing for Google devices. Too bad I got rid of my last Google home device a year ago
DoH, DoT, dnscrypt, whatever else
Firewall redirect and masquerade.
Bitch you thought
DoH, DoT, dnscrypt, whatever else
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as HDMI may carry Ethernet signals, that isn’t too far fetched…
Best solution for these concerns in my opinion is
- TV for presentation in companies (often without smart apps)
- PiHole for blocking the most adds
- SHIELD for the apps, like YouTube without adds, stream apps, emulators, etc
Works like a charm for me, I did not see adds for month, maybe years. With the shield, I use SmartTube because I can login and don’t have any adds. None. I also use an app for streaming (moonlight or something like that) to play my PC games on my tv with controller.
How has SmartTube been for you? Is it an Android only or does it work on other platforms?
I’ve been a FreeTube user for years, but YouTube’s aggressive countermeasures has mostly rendered this program unusable (I use on Linux). Devs put out fixes but they work for a handful of days before YouTube breaks it again.
SmartTube is, afaik, only for the Shield Devices and similar ddevices - so not really for Smartphones. Most of the time, it is great but for some reason I often get a network error message and the videos stop. So sometimes it’s annoying. Haven’t found a good solution yet
For smartphones, you can still download ReVanced. When Vanced was closed, they started again with revanced and it works like a charm. It has all premium features (like background listening) and blocks adds, even sponsored or fillers. The problem is the download, if you ask me. Because there is an official webside, but the download starts after it redirected you to some suspicious add website…
Alternatively, you can download NewPipe. If you don’t care that you can’t login, it’s a perfect app. In my opinion, it’s not really needed because you can save your profile (backup) and restore. It also blocks all the adds. Best app so far (IMO). It can be downloaded in the F Droid store.
For YouTube music, a good alternative is Kreate. Also available in the FDroid store.
If you have any further questions, ask me anything. Would be glad if I can help
Edit: NouTube is also a good alternative to YouTube premium, but I’m not really happy with the app. My complains are about some details though, so generally speaking, it’s worth a try
I’m waiting for these smart devices to come with their own mobile modems.
And/or some weird legislation that mandates connecting them to your home network. Because you wouldn’t want them to not be able to phone home with the thousands of screenshots so their AI can verify that you are not stealing copyrighted content, right???!
“oops each one somehow malfunctioned and the registry id’s were corrupted.”
In fascist America, believe it or not, straight to jail.
it’s fine. I don’t have any smart appliances in my home.
I really hope that continues to be an option.
I worry it’ll end up like trying to buy a car that doesn’t constantly report your location (physically disconnecting the cellular antenna is still legal for now) or living without a cellphone and only paying with cash. With enough time, any semblance of privacy becomes weird, then illegal.
Who cares? I use mine only as a (huge) screen for my laptop (soon to be replaced by a steam deck)
No idea why this is getting down voted, this is the only real option for such TVs.
Probably because you should care about the fuckton of TVs being sold and in circulation with software that is just some of the worst privacy violations bundled together in a case behind a big LCD/OLED panel. There is no option to avoid it and probably no option to install something else on the hardware you bought and therefor should be yours to do whatever you want to with it. I even read that some connect to open wifi access points without passwords to reach the internet.
Probably because you should care about the fuckton of TVs being sold and in circulation with software that is just some of the worst privacy violations bundled together in a case behind a big LCD/OLED panel.
But that’s what I mean. I don’t use my TV as a smart TV, it’s plugged into a device where I can control the privacy settings via HDMI. No wifi, no apps being used, no connection to the outside world. That’s why I don’t care about DNS shenanigans with the TV, because I do them more comfortably on another device.
You not caring about the implications because you can avoid it in your own home could have come across as not helpful to the greater cause I guess.
I’m on a Crusade against people that won’t tet me watch TV without being part of a Crusade.
We do a lot of streaming in my house unfortunately, mostly using Kodi to pirate anime. So it needs Wifi in our case. If I had some old (working) laptops and router around, I’d do a Pihole and VPN but alas.
Slap one of these under or behind your tv. Put pop-os Linux on it it. You can run pihole/Jellyfin/kodi off it at the same time. It will host your anime and index it with jellyfin, filter your entire network for ads, and give you kodi’s excellent interface.
Jellyfin can grab metadata/subtitles/autoskip intros/on and on and has native kodi integration. It will run better on a beefer PC than the one above, but if youre just using it on 1 tv with kodi, you should be fine.
Oh, I’ve really wanted to self-host and do something like that, but I didn’t wanna spend too much more money than I have (recently bought drives and a bay) and figured I’d use old/outdated/broken laptops to save money and be environmental, but I’ve been thwarted by proprietary chargers (an old Acer) and screens not turning on (a broken Mac). I’m a college student so I don’t wanna drop my money too much in a month (gotta learn to budget somehow right?). Might ask my college IT if they’ve got old shit around instead.
Using castoff hardware is a classic first homelab setup. You dont need an actual server to setup a homelab either. Old desktops do the job well enough. I personally run a cluster of 3 of the small desktops i recommend in my last comment, if slightly beefer models. They work great. This site keeps a comprehensive list.
If you’re looling for next steps, this is a great general guide. Id personally recommend proxmox of the options he lists. Its a hypervisor that will let you slice up your physical server into virtual machines, letting you split out services like a pihole/*arr stack/jellyfin/kodi in a very sane way.
Linuxserver.io has a huge list of services that you can host with containers inside those virtual machines.
Load Kodi and PiHole on the same Raspberry Pi 4 or 5.
I love my PI hole but it’s needing a complete upgrade and a list rebuild. Damned thing is so reliable and solid I literally forget I’m running it. Things been up for over a year and not one issue.
I never plan on replacing my commercial display. when it breaks, i won’t care. don’t watch tv or movies anyways. it’s all garbage
I have a smart TV. It is connected to two things. The wall socket for power and HDMI #2 for my PC.
Edit: Also I have a PFSense router, I use PFBlockNG to also block the IPs behind the blocked DNS entries. My phone is GrapheneOS and all of my computers are GNU Linux. Any blocked incidents I get are usually from websites. If I surf the web a lot in a month, I maybe get 200 blocked incidents. If my normie friends stay over with, for example, a Windows PC and an iPhone, I get 2000 per day. It’s wild what’s going on with these devices.
I’ve got my pc and steamdeck on my tv.
The settings menu still asks me if i want to connect for “corpo reason”.This the way.
Open in gimp, lasso tool, delete. It’s not that hard.
In GIMP, mark the layer as having transparancy
It’s even easier to just pretend it’s transparent though
It’s because it got saved as JPEG in the title. Idk some kind of weird Lemmy bug or something , this totally was legitimate PNG I swear on me mum
Buying old TV (as long as LED) or 2K resolution TV is still worth it for me because i don’t like Android TV, Smart TV, or other crap and shits. For me a TV doesn’t need to have that kind of features, if you want android just buy android tv box like NVIDIA Shield or Minix
Couldn’t you just buy a new, awesome TV and then not hook it up to the internet?
Many newer smart TVs will literally not boot up past a certain point until you connect them to the internet to “activate” them. It’s actual madness.
Can confirm. Returned as defective.
I set up my Samsung give it its initial update, and then blocked it from internet at my firewall. If I need it to do something I unblock it for a few minutes and then block it again when I’m done. I use streaming sticks for all my other work and they’re just pie holed regularly.
It takes ages to boot, might have integrated offline ads, draws power when on standby for features you don’t want like remote controllability via network, and it’ll probably nag you forever to let it online. No thanks, a display will always just be that in this household. Separate concerns please, also easier to upgrade or replace.
That’s what I did with my brand new whatever-inch big fucking flatscreen. Like 80% of the buttons on the remote make a little notification come up saying the feature’s missing since the TV wasn’t set up “properly”, but it works fine.
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At this time I’d like to shill for Sceptre. They make tvs and monitors that don’t have all that stupid fucking “smart” features. I do not know of another brand that still makes dumb screens.
(sort of) unrelated, but I found a Sceptre CRT Monitor in the woods and it’s one of the best tube displays I own.
I bought a Sceptre TV as my first big purchase after graduating college and it’s still kicking nearly ten years later. Sure the speakers died a few years ago and several buttons on the remote no longer work, but it sure isn’t spying on me. And the picture quality is honestly not bad for what I paid
‘pretend this is transparent’ is sending me. Bra-fucking-vo!
LOL thanks bro. I was browsing the internet at AltaVista and downloaded a pi holo logo image that said
transparent PNGin the name. When I added the image in Krita I had a good laugh and decided I’d leave it as is here
