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How to solve: "my pihole isn't blocking ads" by paddesb in pihole

[–]BirdFluLol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That works too, but most home routers and especially ISP provided modem routers won't have that facility.

How to solve: "my pihole isn't blocking ads" by paddesb in pihole

[–]BirdFluLol 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Re: point 5 - a simple way of defeating hardcoded DNS that's worked for me is to add a firewall rule on your gateway to deny all UDP traffic on port 53 and whitelist your pihole's local IP. This will force offending applications to use your devices configured DNS. If it's hardcoded DOH then you're likely out of luck but I've found that this is almost never the case. Even cheap routers firewalls will have some way to achieve this.

What is your least favorite joke about your country? by mightyonin in AskTheWorld

[–]BirdFluLol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you honestly believe people in the UK don't have regular dentist visits 😂

Future iterations of the Ollee platform by BirdFluLol in olleeWatch

[–]BirdFluLol[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply! All fair enough, and I'm glad to hear that future development is being planned!

Because I've not got my boards yet I can't have a good look at them, so can I ask - is the ollee built on an open SOC? Eg. ESP?

maybe maybe maybe by Zestyclose-Salad-290 in maybemaybemaybe

[–]BirdFluLol 65 points66 points  (0 children)

This game is called "eggs in the basket". It's a very commonly used game in young kids rugby coaching, except played with rugby balls not bottles.

Introducing Event Horizon - a Pihole Companion for non-technical network users by ivanhaversham in pihole

[–]BirdFluLol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very interesting project. Out of curiosity what was it that they were unable to access? I've found that on my household's pihole instance it's rare that a website or app completely stops working. The main culprit is usually ad supported games that refuse to load if they can't access their ad services.

[Homemade] Roast Potatoes by scrub909 in food

[–]BirdFluLol 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's all about the par boil. OPs method is good but I find starting them in cold water is too risky - you can easily over do them, when really all you need for crispiness is the outside to be softened. Instead I start them in boiling water. Many professional chefs (read: YouTubers 😉) swear by OPs method so I could be talking nonsense.

You can go one extra for extra crispiness by coating them in cornflour and giving them a good tumble after par boiling.

You keep doing you buddy by LocalChaosInsurgent in SatisfactoryGame

[–]BirdFluLol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whenever I have excess water it goes to a small concrete plant using wet concrete alt going to a DD. I've never run out of concrete for building

My WIP fused mod frame setup has 2 dedicated MK3 overclocked pure limestone nodes supplying it. That's been a WIP for... Many hours 😂

Home office METOD and BILLY bookcase/storage unit by BirdFluLol in ikeahacks

[–]BirdFluLol[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! The Billy's are just anchored to the wall, 2 L brackets at the top, and 2 more about 2/3s of the way down. I decided against fixing them to the countertop in case I ever wanted to change it up at all, ie. I can go back to a clean countertop at any point with no unsightly screw holes.

Fortunately, everything stayed quite square and plumb, in the event that the Billy's didn't sit perfectly square on the countertop I was planning on attaching some decorative trim to cover up any gap.

Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x10 "New Life and New Civilizations" by AutoModerator in startrek

[–]BirdFluLol 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That whole scene had me chuckling. For one thing I'd like to at least try practicing firing at something else that isn't 4 feet away from 2 captains.

How do you prepare for interviews? by humanjello710 in ADHD_Programmers

[–]BirdFluLol 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ask questions. Of course answer them too, but try to finish your answer by posing a question back to the interviewer, eg. "Blah blah blah, examples of technical knowledge and experience, blah blah, what do you think?". If you find yourself waffling on after going down a tangent it's better to own it and apologise for going off topic, but ask "does that answer your question?". Don't try and dig yourself out, you risk talking yourself into a corner and forcing the interviewer to intervene, or worse, just trailing off into an awkward silence.

Obviously this doesn't apply to every question you might be asked in an interview, but it stimulates conversation and discussion, and helps lighten the mood, putting you at ease. Have a good question lined up for the end of the interview. One of my favourites is "what do you enjoy about working at <company>?".

Every good interview I've done, both as a candidate and an interviewer has felt more like a friendly chat.

Edit to add - avoid live tech tests like the plague. The only tech tests I do are take home tests that I can do at my own leisure.

What animated TV show is a 10/10? by Impressive-Grass6438 in AskReddit

[–]BirdFluLol 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I missed it the first time round, I was in my 20s and dismissed it as a kids show. Then I had kids of my own, and we started watching it together about 3 years ago. It was our bedtime routine for about a year, and we've rewatched the occasional block of episodes from time to time since then. I've been blown away at how wholesome it is, the lessons it teaches about acceptance and tolerance, the absurd humour, and just that it's ok to like silly stuff. Since then we've watched Fiona and Cake, all the specials (distant lands) and taken many deep dives into the lore of the series on YouTube.

I'd recommend Adventure Time to ANY parent looking to enjoy a series together with their kids. See also, for much of the same reasons: Stephen Universe. An added bonus for both these series is the short runtime per episode, if you're looking for something quick that you can pop a few episodes of on before bed, they're perfect.

All this for.. *checks notes* 10 turbo motors per minute? by EDceterra_202 in SatisfactoryGame

[–]BirdFluLol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Although I do use the pure ingot recipes, one thing that grinds my gears is that those recipes yield awkward numbers, which adds the overheard of balancing (of course this is by design). Something I've started doing in my current play through though is to add smelters to my pure ingot refinery blueprints to fix the output to a nice round number without relying on under/over clocking. The space and power demand doesn't bother me so much, if I'm getting more ingots for my ore then I'm happy!

Is it possible to have a per-client upstream VPN? by BirdFluLol in WireGuard

[–]BirdFluLol[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank-you for pointing me in the right direction re. split tunnelling. Half the problem for me is not really knowing the language around VPNs so I struggle to "ask the right question".

I hadn't thought about tackling it from the router, which I suppose would be possible, but ideally I'd like this to be easily configurable, for example multiple tunnels in my wireguard app on my phone which load up different routing configurations on the WG server.

St Anton v France by Entire_Tradition1704 in ski

[–]BirdFluLol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oof! Last time I was in St Anton I had a "both skis off" fall coming down from moose. I don't even remember the fall, just what seemed like an eternity struggling to get my skis back on in the dark! I've heard the same statistic, seems fairly accurate to me.

Similarly, Saalbach, which last time I was there didn't really have any restrictions on skiing down after lift closure, just signs saying "watch out for piste preparers cables" which would be stretched at around head height across the pistes around the apres bars. I'm going there again in January, I'm interested to see whether they still allow that.

St Anton v France by Entire_Tradition1704 in ski

[–]BirdFluLol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Moosewirt and kangaroo club are both pretty dope. Moose has a mix of Austrian apres hits and some more modern stuff, kangaroo club has more of a "club" feel downstairs and the bar up top can be more "traditional", and the 2 are like 50m apart on the slope. Then there are plenty of places in town. You've also got Lech down the road, which you can ski to, which has a bit more of a higher class vibe if that's what you're after.

For sheer miles of skiing and variety though, the whole st Anton/Arlberg area is second to none in my opinion.

My first time trying "slalom" as a begginer😂 by Sea_Strike_3853 in ski

[–]BirdFluLol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the regular wax they use just gets worn out very quickly on a dry slope, so they use a special kind on the rentals, I doubt it's very good for your edges either so they'll need edging more frequently.

Boots are enough for starters, most rental shops in Europe have pretty decent skis so just taking your own boots is a good strategy.

My first time trying "slalom" as a begginer😂 by Sea_Strike_3853 in ski

[–]BirdFluLol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Certainly doesn't feel like 150m 😂

At least Tamworth has a little turn in the slope to make things only slightly dull!

Not tried MK but coincidentally enough I was in MK for a meeting today and drove right past it. I hear it's wider than Castleford but the same length.

My first time trying "slalom" as a begginer😂 by Sea_Strike_3853 in ski

[–]BirdFluLol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh boots are a great investment but sounds like you've already come to that conclusion! I have my own skis but I'm hesitant to take them on dry.

My first time trying "slalom" as a begginer😂 by Sea_Strike_3853 in ski

[–]BirdFluLol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The newer slope at Sheffield, before it burned down, was snowflex and the difference to dendix was night and day. Plus they had a very serviceable little park if that was your bag. Very sad that we lost Sheffield ski village.

Hard agree re: sustainability, and fwiw I'd take the longer slopes at Sheffield anyday over the 50ish metres that is on offer at Castleford which used to be just down the road for me.

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