Project : Pi-hole

  1. Purchase a Raspberry Pi
  2. Do a fresh install using the Raspberry Pi Imager: https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
  3. Ensure to fully update Raspberry Pi OS
  4. Enable Wi-fi
  5. Enable VNC and SSH
  6. Change the hostname to “pi-hole”
  7. Check that the pi-hole can be pinged from another PC
  8. Install Pi-hole using the guide on https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/#one-step-automated-install
  9. During installation ensure that you save the admin password
  10. Done!
  11. Optional step : add Microsoft telemetry sites to the blocklist : https://github.com/sfoerster/block-windows-telemetry/blob/master/pihole-windows-block-telemetry-domains.txt