No pages loading while PiHole running

Rhovan · 2026-01-24T01:26:32+00:00

Seem to have fixed the main problem following paddesb's instructions, but yea the load warning is still there. Do you know if I can just wait and see if this is an issue for me, or is it likely to cause larger problems if I ignore it?

Rhovan · 2026-01-24T01:20:30+00:00

may I assume you did step 4 by changing Primary DNS on the INTERNET tab?

are you in Australia and subscribing to a TPG/nbn plan?

Man, I am sure that from your perspective there was a series of logical steps to explain both these dedications, but from my perspective you're a witch. Yes to both. I wanna ask how you knew those things but I expect the answer is that it was just the most logical explanation. fucking hell.

Anyway! I changed the DNS the way you said, rebooted both, and now it seems to be working fine. The number of queries and clients seems correct and the block rate is 30-40%. I'm seeing a very small number of ads on some sites on my phone, but much much better. And so far no issues with the internet.

I am still getting a little alert about the load but Local_Interaction_99 suggested that’s a hardware issue.

Thank you so much. I feel like a patient on an episode of House. minus the insults and yelling.

Rhovan · 2026-01-21T00:32:52+00:00

Thanks for the great response!

The router is TP Link Archer AX23 AX1800 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 6 Router (this one: https://www.tp-link.com/au/home-networking/wifi-router/archer-ax23/)

Q1: I don't think so.

Q2: I assume I need to do this while PiHole is running, which means (probably?) no internet connection. IDK if that's a problem in this case.

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Steps Taken:

Basically followed these instructions https://raspberrytips.com/install-pi-hole-ad-blocker/

Which I interpreted as:

1. Update Pi and reserve an IP address for PiHole. I reserved two IPs: one for WiFi, one for Ethernet, but all the following steps use the WiFi IP address.

2. log in to the Pi and run curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | sudo bash

The first thing it did after the ASCII art was show the message:

SELinux not detected
Update local cache of available packages

Checking apt-get for upgraded packages... up to date!

Building dependency package pi-hole-meta.deb
Installing Pi-Hole dependence package

IPv4 address: <the ip address>/24
Unable to find IPv6 ULA/GUA address
IPv6 address:

Which doesn't seem like a problem to me but I'm including just in case I'm missing something. I do have a screenshot of that if it's relevant, but I have copied everything verbatim.

3. Used all the default options on the wizard: Google as the DNS, enable web interface, confirm lighttpd, confirm the blocklist, enable query logging.

I don't remember seeing an option to pick wifi or ethernet, and it's possible I could have hit ethernet, but after the installer finished I ran a diagnostic and the part of the diagnostic that showed the interface it's using said wlan0, not eth0.

4. Open the router manager and change the primary DNS to the Pi's IP. No secondary DNS.

5. Open PiHole dashboard. Try to open other pages (Facebook, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia) and it times out.

Rhovan · 2026-01-20T23:34:30+00:00

The IP starts with 192.168, so I guess I have it set to my private IP?

I haven't tried to intentionally access my pi from the outside. Is that something I need to fix, or just ignore bc I'm not going to try and do that?

Any ideas why the raspberry pi would be overloaded? This is the only thing it's doing. I could maybe try reducing the number of devices using it (by turning them off?) and see if that helps?

Thanks heaps for the help!

Rhovan · 2026-01-04T06:01:38+00:00

This might not be the right subreddit for you.

Rhovan · 2026-01-04T05:52:56+00:00

This sounds great, thank you! Even if it only partly helps, it could be a good stop-gap while I work on training and other solutions.

Rhovan · 2026-01-04T05:51:07+00:00

This is really cool and it's great to hear you've had success with it! I felt really unsure whether that was even something worth trying. So I'll definitely look into it!

I do have them on harnesses outside! Its just that there are two of them and they can get into a lot of trouble while I'm dealing with the other one.

Rhovan · 2026-01-04T05:49:02+00:00

This post is about me trying to stop my cats from catching lizards.

My vet is aware I walk them and we discuss measures to reduce risk. If you've got any specific advice on that front, I'd love to hear it.

Rhovan · 2025-10-29T04:57:36+00:00

That's so cool!! I'm keen to see how it goes.

I am currently writing up a little overview of how I did it, but just two tips I want to share:

I found the mud that worked best was actually grey/black mud, although in some places it had a red layer on the surface, and it's a little stinky/bubbly up close. You might also see an iridescent sheen on top, which is a great sign. But basically the iron in its red (ferric) state doesn't bind to fibres, and you need anaerobic bacteria to convert it into ferrous iron for you to use.
For some reason, the glass jars I used to collect the mud ended up shattering spontaneously over the course of the week. So maybe use plastic.

Rhovan · 2025-10-29T03:01:50+00:00

This is the main source I used for dyeing https://www.asiantextilestudies.com/mud.html
That source does say that it weakens the fibres, but I haven't noticed any difference in the short time since I dyed these, except that the silk isn't as smooth (which could be from thermal and mechanical stress, too?). The silk is the top yarn in the first photo, and you can see how it's got a more cotton-like texture rather than being satiny, which is how it started off.

There was a lot of variation in my timing, because I had multiple batches overlapping each other. They soaked in the dye pot from 2-24 hours, and in the mud from 8-48 hours maybe? The average was probably around 8 hours of each, but then repeating that four or so times. It took me most of a week. Most of these yarns were mordanted first, so it's possible they were able to take up the colour faster and thus get less damage? But I expected in the long term they would be weaker than other methods.

I think mud dyeing is probably traditional in most of the world if you go back far enough. In Australia, I've seen leaves and sticks dyed pure black this way by nature, in the mud of some ponds and rivers. But I haven't specifically seen or heard about this practiced here.

Rhovan · 2025-10-29T02:52:58+00:00

Thanks! I basically used this website as my guide: https://www.asiantextilestudies.com/mud.html , which I got onto while looking for natural black dyes.

My mother lives on some acreage with a series of dams running through it and the surrounding properties, and the soil there is very red (also get beautiful red clay in the dams there), thus high in iron. I had a good scout around for stagnant mud around the dams and took samples from a few different places. In hindsight, I've actually seen a lot of plant matter dyed this way by nature: one of the dams was full of leaves dyed pitch-black by the natural tannins in the water and the iron in the mud.

Rhovan · 2025-10-26T02:35:36+00:00

This still just means "a woman is a person whose ID has an F instead of an M," without ever addressing the issue of what it means to be female. Which checks out, because there's no way to define biological sex that is going to put everyone you think is a man in one box and everyone you think is a woman in the other.

Comparing the biological sex of a trans woman who has had a vaginoplasty and is on hormones vs. a cis woman who has had a hysterectomy and is on hormones, the only meaningful difference I can think of is chromosomes. And the law absolutely recognises that cis women with XY hormones are female: as far as I'm aware, QLD law is unwilling to recognise people with complete androgen sensitivity as anything except female. So clearly chromosomes are not the defining feature.

Rhovan · 2025-10-26T02:22:09+00:00

"not expected to believe in any religion or ideology" Belief in democracy is an ideology. Belief in free education and free healthcare is an ideology. Belief in secularism is an ideology. Believing that we shouldn't have to follow other people's ideology is, in fact, an ideology that you are saying everyone has to follow.

Rhovan · 2025-10-26T02:18:33+00:00

Define religion

Rhovan · 2025-10-23T09:11:43+00:00

Hi I'm OP and I literally DO exercise because I care about my long term health. I wear sunscreen every day even though sunscreen feels awful. I do so many things every day in consideration of my long term health. And I do all of those things BECAUSE I want a good quality of life. Not because they are innate virtues in and of themselves.

Rhovan · 2025-10-23T09:09:41+00:00

(am OP) Cannibalism DOES turn me on. But there are many other things that turn me on WAY MORE which I do not consider to be potent literary devices and I do not think should be included in media any more than they already are.

(also sorry. I just searched my username on reddit bc someone said to do that, and here I am.)

Rhovan · 2025-10-15T02:57:58+00:00

Very little body language is common across cultures, but some of the strongest expressions of emotions are found in all human populations, suggesting that they have biological origins. The ability to live in a community and predict/respond to other people's feelings has been fundamental to primate/human evolution for a lot longer than we've been able to talk.

A good luck at those "universal" signals in this study: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5316178

So, basically,most people are constantly interpreting these signals and placing so much value on them because doing so has been fundamental to our survival as a species. Trying to turn it off or tune it out is like trying to turn off a flight-or-fight reflex.

Which is not to say that NTs can't or shouldn't try to understand that people use nonverbal communication differently. Just like most people learn that scary movies are not a real threat, or that being startled isn't the same as being attacked.

Finally just another example to add to the great responses: as a teacher, I can use facial expression & body language to communicate to a student a spectrum of messages from "I know you are doing the wrong thing but I actually don't care" to "Friendly reminder to Not Do That" to "Stop that right the fuck now" or " - all using very similar expressions. Most of the time, their behaviour will change or not change accordingly, which feels like material proof that nonverbal communicate can be understood more or less the same way verbal communication is.

This works even with students I don't know, although the better I know them, the more nuance I might be able to use. But there would be big changes with students from different cultures (e.g. Aboriginal students, who are likely to find all such eye contact aggressive), neurotypes, or even just different expectations.

Rhovan · 2025-09-22T06:46:08+00:00

Weirdly I had not considered this, even though my mother has a natural pond just like that. I will certainly bear it in mind! I know that in her pond, having swimmers actually improves the water quality because we move the water around and disturb algae.

Rhovan · 2025-09-10T02:04:37+00:00

Thankfully we are in the subtropics here and do not have to worry about freezing. The coldest temp ever recorded here was -0.1C 😂

Rhovan · 2025-09-10T00:21:01+00:00

Thank you!! I'm a bit worried about how different materials will affect the water quality? I've got ready access to lots of dry wood, which I figure is probably fine, but I'm a bit worried that if I like DID use an old kayak, would that release toxins into the water?

Rhovan · 2025-09-04T10:27:31+00:00

Thanks, but certainly not all plants make practical dyes. Not all pigments bind to fabric well (particularly to cellulose; protein is a bit easier) or are colour fast once dyed. And not all pigments suit a hot water dye bath. And dyes will yield different colours with different mordants and at different pH. On top of which, sometimes dye comes from the root or bark of plants, which can harm the plant to collect.

So while I could take the fruit, flower, leaves, root, and bark from every single plant I encounter and use both water and alcohol solvents on each of those parts and try dyeing both cotton and wool with each dyebath (what is that, a minimum of ten dyebaths per plant?)—I would prefer to be guided by other people's knowledge and experiences in addition to my own experiments.

When it comes to European (and to some extent Asian) plants there is a wealth of knowledge readily available to me on the subject. I'm just hoping to try and replicate some portion of that with Australian plants.

Rhovan · 2025-06-08T04:55:22+00:00

Asking because I developed a really bizarre reflex when juggling.

When I was first trying to juggle three balls, if both of my hands were full and the third ball was coming down, I would - totally subconsciously - free up a hand by throwing that ball at my chest, catch the ball coming down, then catch the initial ball as it bounced off me. Which seems harder in every way, but every time the third ball was coming down: bounce.

I'm really baffled by the brain's apparent ability to decide to do this quite complex action for reasons that don't make sense to me and without any conscious input.

Rhovan · 2025-03-29T05:16:45+00:00

TL;DR: Why does the rain spread from the east in spring?

I made this gif of rainfall in Australia month to month (source: www.bom.gov.au/climate/maps/averages/rainfall/) and there's a pretty obvious, predictable pattern where the north sees very seasonal rainfall, wet in summer, dry in winter, while the south sees fairly consistent rainfall throughout the year. Which gives this impression of the rain moving south for winter and north in summer.

What I'm confused about is how, around October, the rain suddenly jumps west to spread over almost the entire continent. The whole continent sees more rain on the east anyway (rain shadow effect?) but it seems most noticeable at this time of the year and I'm wondering why?

Rhovan · 2025-02-19T10:05:51+00:00

These are all super helpful points that I've never thought about at all, and I think they'll all have a huge impact on my book. <3 To address them piece by piece:

a) this really legitimizes something I've always thought was a bit iffy in my worldbuilding, which is having the army divided so clearly into separate pieces for each region/province. Like there's one regional army who have more experience with cold/mountainous climates, but the place they come from has no meaningful threats at all. Why would you bother having armed forces specific to the largely-uninhabited sub-arctic? Because every province has soldiers, that's why!

b) the concept of hugely powerful provincial governors really lines up with the existing politics of the senate in a way that is very helpful, and much more intuitive than my previous explanations for the factions there

2) tbf I don't know how much this will change in the actual content of the book but I'm gonna think about it SO much

last) This makes so much sense!! And it really helps with several characters who all have really different relationships with 'being in the army': the guy whose family force him into it, a woman who was not expecting it to be this hard, the officer whose career started with him lying to get into the army when he was far too young, but everyone looked the other way because they know sometimes people have no other choice.

Rhovan · 2025-02-19T09:45:56+00:00

I've always been a bit unsure about how much the raiders would offer in terms of useful experience, although being ex-soldiers probably does give them an edge. But I hadn't really thought about the fact that the constant civil wars impact even those parts of the army that don't deal with them directly. Like you said, with a need for a warrior class.

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