[–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

The linked resources, are free, yes.

They have a site with paid courses, but that site doesn't cover creating your own network stack/protocol yet. I'm guessing the resources I linked were them savings stuff so they could eventually make their own course.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago

    The laptop had been rejected by my brother long before Covid. It had accumulated dust. It doesn't have any battery, no power cord. I need to find out if it's actually working or not. I'd be giving it for a servicing. That'll take some time.

    And I'm not pushing anybody to any page. I just made that link a post so that l may refer to it later on.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Oh. My. Fucking. GOD. YES WITH THAT FUCKING MACHINE! The one you linked in the opening post. The one you've linked in almost every post you've made. That machine.

    Five fucking seconds of Google. Five seconds. Could have gotten you that answer. "hardware requirements for PiHole"

    The name should give it away, it was originally made to run on Raspberry Pi boards with less resources than what you have.

    Just search it up and fucking try it already.

    Congrats, I'm blocking your dumb ass. I don't particularly dislike teaching/helping, but this has reached multiple levels beyond the absurd.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Did you just completely ignore the suggestion to look at self hosting communities? This is one of the most popular things ever for people to self host. There's plenty of info out there on this.

    Yes, you absolutely can run your own DNS resolver on your own hardware, and many people do. It's a hell of a lot easier than running an email server. There are a whole bunch of different projects and tools to do so, with different feature sets.

    I'd recommend starting with PiHole, which is an ad blocking service that runs as a DNS server you can self host. It supports running a reverse DNS service underneath it rather than passing any non-blocked requests out to a third party DNS server.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Buddy, use a lightweight Linux Distro like Puppy Linux and find out for yourself. You've posted this build how many times now? Just start playing around with it for fucks sake.

    If you want to be helpful to the wider world, share the results of what you find.

    You've gotten literal pages of fucking advice about this thing by now. It's past time to stop using a web forum as a search engine and start tinkering.

    The only thing people have told you not to do is don't try to set up something like an email server or a server open to the world wide web when you're this new to things.

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