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    Running a Pi-hole securely on Azure

    On December 2, 2020 By Marcel In Azure, Customization, Raspberry Pi

    Pi-hole is a popular DNS resolver, advertised as a black hole for Internet advertisements. I use it as a DNS filter for parental control as well as an ad and tracking domain filter. As a …

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    A global Dark Mode for your browser

    On June 26, 2020 By Marcel In Customization

    The other day, I wondered how to enable dark mode on any of those bright shiny websites. Before long, I found darkmode-js. Here’s how to use it with Tampermonkey.

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    Using the exiftool on a Synology NAS

    On February 28, 2020 By Marcel In Customization, Photo, Programming, Synology

    How to use the exiftool on a Synology NAS

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    Running Spotify on a Kid’s phone, without the age restriction

    On January 30, 2020 By Marcel In Android, Customization, Mobile Phone

    How to let your kids (under age 13) use spotify. And a what to allow in a pass-rule for a firewall at the same time.

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    Running NxFilter on a headless Raspberry Pi Zero W

    On January 5, 2020 By Marcel In Customization, Linux, Raspberry Pi

    Note: This post is mostly a revisit of my older post Running NxFilter on a headless Raspberry Pi, using the Zero W model and the current NxFilter version. NxFilter is the best free solution for a …

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    Getting rid of all the bloatware – on a SONY Xperia X Compact.

    On December 13, 2018 By Marcel In Android, Customization, Mobile Phone

    In a recent release of the german c’t magazine, under “Schlanker Roboter” they described the process of getting rid of the many bloatware that comes along with Android Smartphones today. I went with the method using …

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    My name is Marcel and this is where I write about stuff that piqued my curiosity.

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