Fix Raspberry Pi TV HAT missing channels in Germany
Missing some channels? But your TV can pick them up? Here's what solved it for me.
The Raspberry Pi Waveshare Game Hat is weird
The Raspberry Pi Waveshare Game Hat is weird... Let's take a look!
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W FLIRC Heatsink Case Review & Test
You probably got here because you'd like to know if the Pi Zero 2 W works with the FLIRC heatsink case, and if it does a good job. I tested it, and the answer to both is: YES! I tested it thoroughly, and compared the Pi without case, with official [...]
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and the GPi Case
Sindastra holding the GPi In my past YouTube videos I took a look at running the GPi Case with the Pi Zero 2 W. So, how did I do it? This guide assumes you have a Rasberry Pi Zero W working with the GPi Case, using RetroPie. Update it all [...]
How to install and enable firewall (UFW) on Raspberry Pi and basic configuration
In this guide you will learn how to install a firewall on your Raspberry Pi and enable it without locking yourself out. This guide of course also applies to any Debian or Ubuntu Server, no matter if a Pi or PC. What is a firewall? Firewall illustration by Bruno Pedrozo [...]
Increase the swapfile of your Raspberry Pi
If you're on a first generation Raspberry Pi you don't have much RAM, so it makes sense to increase the swapfile size to be able to do more with your Pi. I'll show you how! First, edit the file /etc/dphys-swapfile sudo nano /etc/dphys-swapfile Change the line: CONF_SWAPSIZE=100 To something like: [...]
Switch your Raspberry Pi to 64-bit kernel (Raspbian)
As you might know, Raspberry Pi 3/3+/4 all have a 64bit CPU but Raspbian (the official and default system for the Raspberry Pi) is 32-bit. In this guide I will show you how to switch the kernel to 64-bit, however I only recommend doing this with the latest Rasbian Lite [...]
Pi-hole and hosts-file.net
You might be using block lists by hosts-file.net but you shouldn't! One of the default block lists that used to be included with Pi-hole was https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt but this is not maintained anymore, which is why it's got excluded from the defaults. But that doesn't mean it will get automatically removed [...]
What are the default Pi-hole block lists?
It's handy to know, so here they are: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts https://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt To restore Pi-hole to the default blocking lists, just delete all the lists but these six five lists. Note: There used to be a sixth list, which is now dead so you can safely delete it: https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt [...]
Big block-lists for Pi-hole
I used to have huge collection of block-lists for my Pi-hole(s) but I was annoyed about all the false positives, and decided to reset to the default lists that come with it. That way, I had no more issues and it would still block ads. But this also meant tracking [...]