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Hey I just stumbled upon this interesting system and thought it might be attractive to some people here who might be intimidated by hw or sw associated with standalone IOT apps.

https://quantumintegrate.com/pages/quantum-iot-platform

I haven’t tried any of it but it looks like they have smoothed out a lot of the bumps and allow the user to focus more on the creation rather than technical implementation. Kind of what Legos did for Mindstorms robotics. This Quantum platform is kind of like Scratch mixed with preassembled embedded hardware.

Stumbled upon this thread.
This month I set up a network-wide Ad Blocking, tracking system. There is simply no more advertising appearing on the network. My roommates love it and I can really recommend it.

It's a raspberry pi running https://pi-hole.net/

It's very easy to setup. How it works is that it keeps a list of DNS records that is does not allow to communicate to. This month it has blocked over 50.000 tracker requests.

I was looking for a raspberry pi to run a TOR relay at first, but just decided on getting some guys old computer with 12gb ram, peripherals, 1tb HDD for cheaper than a rasp pi off Facebook marketplace. Nothing wrong with getting a used desktop PC unless you really require the size of the raspberry pi.