Motivational post: Just do it!

This post is for people who aren't sure if they are capable of setting up pi-hole.

Just do it.

I'd seen a bunch of videos about how effective pi-hole was, but I never felt like I had the technical skills of knowledge to actually set it up and get it running.

Recently an old and obsolete Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny fell into my lap, and I said to myself "just do it".

From step 1, download and install Ubuntu Server

to and up and running pi-hole system took about 2.5 hours. Did I make mistakes? Plenty. Were they all fixable? Absolutely!

If and when I do it a second time, it'll take well under an hour.

There are so many resources if you get stuck, that it's almost impossible to fail.

Just do it.

Posted Dec 1, 2025, 4:10 AM UTC

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