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Hardware upgrade for Laptop Gateway M-6806m

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I'm doing a hardware upgrade to this  old   laptop by upgrading the RAM from 2G to 4G, removing the DVD and adding a caddy to store the original hard drive were the DVD was and a new SDD to install the OS instead of the original HDD. The caddy I gouth is a PATA IDE to SATA, 12.7mm to connect the original HDD, which you can see over the DVD and the SSD already connected and protected by that metal "cage" to the left. Now, you can see the original RAM installed and the new 4G protected with the envelops they were sent by the provider: And now, these are the brand new 4G RAM installed:  Now, this is how it looks the caddy taking the place and simulating being the DVD (at the bottom): The old BIOS detects the new RAM installed: But I had a problem with the BIOS to put the SSD as the primary boot device and the HDD as secondary,  somehow the HDD went to the "bottom" of the options and it was complicate to put it below the SSD. When I finally got the drives in the boo...

AdGuard Home instead of pi-hole with a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B

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In the last days/weeks I'm seeing people talking about "AdGuard" instead of "pi-hole" so I decided to give it a try. These are the steps I followed to install it using the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B where I have pi-hole running at the moment. First, stop/disable pi-hole: pi@localhost:~ $ pihole disable   [i] Disabling blocking   [✓] Reloading DNS service   [✓] Pi-hole Disabled pi@localhost:~ $ sudo systemctl stop lighttpd pi@localhost:~ $ sudo systemctl disable lighttpd Synchronizing state of lighttpd.service with SysV service script with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install. Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install disable lighttpd pi@localhost:~ $ sudo pihole disable   [i] Blocking already disabled, nothing to do pi@localhost:~ $ sudo systemctl stop pihole-FTL pi@localhost:~ $ sudo systemctl disable pihole-FTL pihole-FTL.service is not a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install. Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install disable pihole-FTL Now proce...