ive been running DDWRT for years now, my current ASUS router has been going since AC hit the market and still working great.
Pi's run pi hole and another for octa print.
but this is an excellent excuse to add a pi or some other single board. ive been looking at a couple of them recently, just havent made any decisions.
I bought 3 Raspberry Pi CanaKits a few years ago. I'm glad I did now, because they are impossible to buy recently. I run one as an IPFS server too. I stopped my pi hole after I started the openwrt, since it has ad blocking too. Ad blocking on openwrt works just as good as pi hole, but not as good on logging and tailing if I want to watch to see what's going on. I can live with that though. I guess I could use the pi hole as the upstream dns.
The Pihole picks up some ads that the router doesnt. it isnt a lot.
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