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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • I felt the same way about youtube, streaming, shopping and general browsing: too many ads. Ruins the content. I set up a pi-hole as an experiment to see if it would do what it said and what others said about it. Manage your expectations here. Pi-hole works well for blocking a lot of static information and ads in your browser and a lot of apps on iOS and Android. It does not block video ads on Youtube or Hulu, it does not block ads for Roku or Firestick or Smart TV apps for example, it just does not work because of the technical limitations of how the PiHole software is designed. Using a regular PC with adblock browser extension installed as well gets rid of 99% of ads including video ads from adcdns. PiHole is incredibly easy to setup and install, the pay off in quality of life is enormous. I cannot recommend it more to someone that has a little networking knowledge base. If you can figure out how to port forward and run a handful of command lines you can complete a pihole setup in an hour.


  • Ive seen stutters on 6900xt. My fix was to adjust the boost clock from dropping to 500mhz from ~2300mhz or so. Set the low to little less than half at 1125mhz when Im gaming and cleared a bunch of stutters. That seems to have cleared up that specific stutter. I had some memory issues too with a ddr4 system. Ive also noticed stutters when using Bluetooth audio while gaming. Try eliminating as many backgound apps as you can, try one at a time cause they have been known to cause issues too.










  • To be brief, what I mean by extended has to do with updated Unicode standards. With newer standards they extend the amount of emoji characters that Unicode is able to interpret.

    There are different versions of the unicode standard that covers the keyboard characters that interpret a pictograph emoji and other text. Older installed Unicode standards don’t cover the newer library of emojis available.

    When I attempted to do this to my own router there were few emojis that the Unicode on connecting devices could interpret. Cellphones were good at showing the emoji characters, literally any you could think of because they have extended more current version of Unicode standard that has hundreds of emojis. Some devices, oddly, like some Windows OS would not show or interpret all the most current emojis.

    There were drawbacks to this: some hardware does not interpret the unicode to emoji and you get a string of nonsense for a wifi ssid; like a roku or chromecast. Makes it difficult to connect to your wifi and sometimes impossible depending on the device.