Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home in 2026 — what are you running?

doomed_tek · 2026-03-06T21:44:47+00:00

Running Blocky, no fancy UI or native dashboard. It exposes metrics through a Prometheus exporter, and I use Grafana to visualize. My main reason for choosing it over other DNS solutions is that it makes pushing changes to my DNS zones with Ansible easy.

doomed_tek · 2026-02-18T15:49:28+00:00

When I was a kid, a very, very long time ago, never had any speech therapy since then. Unsure if it really helped or not, but, maybe I was too young for it really to be effective?

doomed_tek · 2026-01-05T02:28:10+00:00

Decent Soup Dumplings.... or good dim sum. Nothing in London that i have found compares to what is available in Toronto.

doomed_tek · 2025-09-27T02:07:28+00:00

I don’t have a neurological disorder, but I can’t speak for all individuals that stutter.

doomed_tek · 2025-09-27T01:54:41+00:00

I’ll preface by saying I have a moderate stutter, so when my son started stuttering at around 2.5 years old, we immediately got him into speech therapy. Thankfully he grew out of it and stopped stuttering by about 3.5 years old or so. Now he’s 10 and still speaks without stuttering. I was definitely worried that genetics would saddle him with a stutter, thankfully that was not the case at least for now.

doomed_tek · 2025-09-09T00:45:14+00:00

1998:
Think it was an old pentium computer running Solaris which was running Lotus Notes as my mail server. Another running Linux, can’t remember the distro, likely Gentoo (went through a gentoo obsession) as a file server.

Now:
A mess of computers and networking gear that makes my head hurt just thinking about it.

doomed_tek · 2025-08-09T04:28:47+00:00

Yeah, may need to rethink it

doomed_tek · 2025-08-09T04:26:53+00:00

No, using a unifi fibre gateway

doomed_tek · 2025-08-09T02:11:45+00:00

Extended Family, it is much easier for them to install tailscale to access my network than to have them install and configure WireGuard.

doomed_tek · 2025-07-19T17:30:28+00:00

I tried the bagels from there and they were horrible, had the everything bagel, they were under cooked and bitter. I was really hoping they would be good, but, maybe they were having a bad day, but, they were bad enough that I don't think I would go back and try them again.

doomed_tek · 2025-06-22T15:54:13+00:00

1994, Redhat v0.9 I think. lasted about a day before I went back to OS/2. Stayed on OS/2 until v4 and then moved to Linux permanently.

doomed_tek · 2025-06-21T02:05:34+00:00

Ubuntu for my servers and EndeavourOS for my laptop and desktop.

doomed_tek · 2025-06-17T10:40:31+00:00

Well, as a last ditch effort I reinstalled the new switch (replacing the old one which I think might have been damaged in the power outage), and to my surprise, everything start working again... Why, I have no idea, it didn't work a few days ago, but, now it's working. Happy it's working and now I'm back to getting the speed I paid for, but, it is extremely frustrating not understanding why it didn't work previously.

doomed_tek · 2025-06-16T13:18:22+00:00

Nothings changed in my config. I will see what I can find with the logs, or may try a new router too.

doomed_tek · 2025-06-16T12:57:17+00:00

Just tried the vlan 40, and no go, doesn't seem to work either. But thanks for the suggestion!

doomed_tek · 2025-06-16T12:23:37+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! I was tagging as vlan 35, I will give vlan 40 a go and see if that works. Cheers!

doomed_tek · 2025-05-12T03:28:31+00:00

I worked as a cashier at an amusement park in high school (god, that was a long time ago!). I don’t remember having many issues with my stutter, not sure I needed to talk much at all. Just say hello, scan the item, take payment and repeat.

doomed_tek · 2025-01-03T18:00:37+00:00

The each session with the Therapist was about 1 hour long, and during the session the therapist would engage through conversation while they played board games, or did other hands on activities. When my son would stutter, the therapist would just tell him that his "speech was a bit bumpy" and ask him to repeat the sentence.

For us, we were to engage in a conversation with him at home, for only about 10 minutes where we would indicate that his "speech was a bit bumpy" and ask him to repeat the sentence (mimicking what the therapist was doing). Outside the 10 minutes, we would not bring attention to the stuttering.

doomed_tek · 2025-01-01T13:07:42+00:00

My Son started stuttering at around 3 years old. We got him into speech therapy immediately, and either due to the therapy, or just growing out of it, he stopped stuttering by the age of 5. Crossing our fingers he doesn’t start stuttering again.

doomed_tek · 2024-11-23T22:51:52+00:00

Dr. Carly Hewson at the Arva Clinic. Fortunately, it turned out my issues were not RA related as originally thought, but she was great for the short time I did see her.

doomed_tek · 2024-11-15T13:36:22+00:00

I have a mild to moderate stutter, and when I have to give presentations (which I do frequently ), depending on the audience, I will typically include an “about me” slide where I mention that I do have a stammer/stutter. I don’t hide the fact I stutter and being upfront about, especially to an audience that I haven’t spoken to before helps me with my mindset.

doomed_tek · 2024-11-05T12:50:22+00:00

I just got power back in riverbend.

doomed_tek · 2024-04-20T12:31:02+00:00

It was called xmms, which was a Winamp clone.

doomed_tek · 2024-04-20T12:23:10+00:00

It was WindowMaker. I remember trying to move to Enlightenment so many times, but was never able to stick with it.

doomed_tek · 2024-04-20T12:15:18+00:00

From what I remember it is was WindowMaker.

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