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change IP address), restart pihole and now blocking ads with 64 bit RISC CPU / OS… I can ssh to my free No-IP DNS via the public intertubes and my router port forwards the non-standard-SSH port to my Pi’s SSH port… Shutdown my old 32 bit Raspbian doing PiHole and fail2ban, insert SD-Card of 64 bit Raspbian - boot up, tweak /etc/pihole/nf (i.e.
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#ELEMENTARY OS RASPBERRY PI INSTALL#
Installed fail2ban, then fresh brand spanker install of PiHole FTL 5.0 (followed instructions here : ). I used my “spare” Pi3B to build/configure aarch64 Raspbian to run headless (easy - instead of remembering all that systemd stuff I just ran “sudo raspi-config” and toggled “Choose whether to boot into a desk…” to boot to CLI instead of that ghastly eyesore they call “Pixel”)… “beta” or “alpha” I guess) 64 bit release of Raspbian… I’ve given this elementary os “Hera” build for RPi two goes now - and it’s got a few niggles that annoy me (like blocking PAM logins on install of openssh-server, overwrite “typical” sudo behaviour, doesn’t have EITHER vi or vim installed - THAT IS A CRIME!) - but I can work with this… First time round I did a full update from its default repos - and it rebooted no dramas… big bubbles, NO TROUBLES!Ĥ8-56 hours later? Still happy** with elementary os “Hera” 64 bit running on RPi4B with 4 GB RAM…Īlso happy with Pi Foundation “unofficial” (i.e. So - previously I’ve gone to the trouble of tweaking RPi to use XFCE instead, but half a bunch of things don’t work, like the WiFi config tool in the “system tray”… this time? This time I “couldnae be arsed” (no I’m not Scottish, but I do occasionally read Scottish authors who “write in Scottish” like Ken McLeod and Irvine Welsh)… OK - I got the 64 bit arm64/aarch64 Raspbian Buster up and running just fine on my RPi4… hooked up to a 27" FHD monitor - and it’s then that I realise just how goddamn UGLY the “Pixel” desktop really is… it’s a travesty… an abortion… What were the foundation thinking? It’s just tolerable on a low dpi and low res smaller screen - but up this big? I’ve tweaked it and tried different themes, but there’s no escaping the fact, “Pixel” the “foundation’s” implementation of LXQT/LXDE looks like a dog’s breakfast…