I ran pi-hole on my NAS. Then I pointed my router at it to make it the DNS for my whole network. The only problem was it would create issues when I had a power outage. If things didn’t start up with the right timing they would get wonky and certain devices would report as not having Internet.

That’s why I bought an OpenWRT One so I could install an equivalent to pi-hole on in directly. Though I hit a snag with that and don’t currently have that running.

I haven’t noticed much of a difference without the pi-hole running (my NAS is dead right now). I think some of my devices had their own DNS settings so they weren’t using the config from the router.

The world is full of assholes and it’s not my job to pick a fight with every one of them.

Also, they’re giving away free software. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

I don’t know the ideology of 99.9% of the developers of the software I use. I don’t want to know it. The license is all I care about.

If you want rsync but shiny, check out rshiny