Re:NextDNS Is Out of Beta
by thanksforfish on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:27PM
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4) change DNS settings in router to use the pi-hole.
Although I agree, it's not terribly complex to follow the steps. Lack of time to fiddle with self-managing a device seems like it could be a bigger limiter.
Sure, but presumably the type of people who are willing to run their own DNS resolver are capable of changing a setting on their router. There's substantially more effort in de-breaking sites broken by pi-hole or other ad-blocking software than there is in maintaining the blocking device.
That seems pretty dismissive of our audience. I cant think of many things easier to set up than pi-hole, unless even using SSH is too difficult to understand.
1) Buy a rasp-pi (or pretty much any other device support a reasonably standard Linux distribution)
2) Copy one of many Linux distributions to an SD card with something like etcher: a couple clicks. Or buy one of the many pre-made kits with Linux already on the card.
3) Run a single line linux command via SSH and follow prompts.