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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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if you set up a pi-hole you aren't sending any data to Microsoft because you are using Linux though... unless you are talking about server in which there are devices running Windows...
You can totally set it up so that pi-hole is your dhcp/dns server and it will catch any device on your network, even phones and windows machines. I block 60% of the shit coming out of my network.
Some shit bag devices (Chromecast were the first I knew about) started hardcoding DNS server addresses and/or using DoH. There are ways to capture those too, I believe.
I think the forum post I linked in this thread covers that. But honestly fuck those devices. Phantasy Star Online does this with the executable, and editing the server string fucks up the offsets if it isn't the exact same length as Sega's original server. Pain in the ass.
Last I checked mine was at almost 80%. For a while there I was getting a shitton of traffic from outside that was getting blocked, which lead to a 99% reject rate, though.
Not sure what's going on with my new room mate's internet, but yeah that was a wild month of trying to get that all under control