Pi-hole is one of those wonderfully boring pieces of technology that you install once and then mostly forget about, until you look at how much advertising, tracking and other nonsense it has quietly blocked. In this post, I explain how I run Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi, why I keep it off unRaid.
Thinking about building an unRaid server to begin your Canadian cloud journey? This beginner-friendly guide walks through everything from choosing your hardware and creating the unRaid USB to configuring storage, Docker, Community Applications, and backups.
Background I've spent a ridiculous amount of my life handing my digital life over to somebody else as most people have done over the years. Google has my photos and devices. Someone else has my files. Someone else has my movies. Someone else knows what websites I'
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In this time of increasing costs, falling markets and ever growing global financial instability, people are looking inward to reduce their household costs to make their hard earned dollar work the hardest for them. Here are six clear and easy steps/changes to make to help you save hundreds if
I should mention, while all these cameras I have connected via POE, they are all also available via wifi, so no need to be scared away due to the POE talk. In the world of home security, you often face a choice: the easy, subscription-heavy path of consumer tech
Over the years, I’ve tried just about every “traditional” banking and investing setup you can imagine. Big banks. Monthly fees. Complicated investment platforms. Random charges that somehow always showed up after the fact. Eventually, I got tired of feeling like my money was working harder for the bank than
Tired of the endless price hikes, expiring promos, and confusing contracts from the big Canadian internet providers? EBOX, a prominent player in the independent ISP landscape, is offering a refreshing alternative, especially with their Fibre to the Home (FTTH) internet. If you live in Quebec or Ontario where their fibre
