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Simon

My Raspberry pi has arrived, unfortunately I am too sick to go tinkering with it, maybe tomorrow

Bluetooth mouse successfully paired via command line. Easy peasy so far.

I've never heard of this company but pi hole does not like it... Block block block.

@simondoestweets Get well soon! Assuming you got the lowest model for €890 from a shady character, and it looks pre-loved

@kevinteljeur
It's the 3A from Pimoroni, I haven't even opened the box.

Think it ended up costing me about €40 with delivery.

@simondoestweets Could've been worse! You didn't get hit with customs, I guess?

@simondoestweets Aha. I was wondering because PiHut doesn't, apparently (or didn't).

@kevinteljeur
I used a scraper site that hunts them down, I've seen the toot several times but do you think I can find it now? Bah!

@simondoestweets rpilocator? I don't even know why I follow it, I have a box of the stupid things.

@kevinteljeur
That's the one! I'm only making a pi-hole to start with.

@simondoestweets That’s a good starter. Honestly, they’re powerful enough to run a solid web server from, even VMs and what have you.

@kevinteljeur
That'll be a small learning curve, I'll just go with using it as a DHCP server for now.

@kevinteljeur @simondoestweets currently deciding myself whether the €160 Pi 400 computer is worth the €50 customs fee. Not confident I’ll get refunded if I return it tho

@kevinteljeur
I know it's daylight robbery, but local robbery you know.
@Liamo

@kevinteljeur @simondoestweets yeah, after clicking around for months I finally impulse bought this one. Of course the very next week a model 3 board turned up in work, and all I really needed it for was PiHole anyway 😖

@psneeze
It works! I ran into a few quirks along the way but nothing a little googling couldn't solve.

@psneeze
There may well be more swearing and questions coming from my direction later.

@simondoestweets Now I want to get my Pi 3 up and running again. idk what to do with it though lol

@padraig
Many projects, pi hole first then network monitoring after.