I'd prefer to keep the current size and get longer battery life.

This. Sure, I don't want my devices to be clunky, but this race to the thinnest is just silly.

why would I use this instead of pihole?

I ran pihole for a long time and then used AdGuardHome for a while before switching to NextDNS. And my experience was that AdGuardHome was an enormously more advanced product. Among other things, the ability to natively support encrypted DNS protocols like DoH, DoT, and dnscrypt both as a client and server was a huge advantage over pihole. AdGuardHome also made split horizon DNS much easier to configure, especially for multiple domains. Basically, my pihole setup eventually did what I wanted after installing a lot of extra software and editing config files by hand. I could do all of those things through the AdGuardHome GUI.

I'll admit I briefly switching back to pihole after Russia invaded Ukraine given that AdGuard is a Russian company. Whether or not that was a reasonable choice, the technical step back was obvious and noticeable.

AdGuard is not a russian company since long time ago. We moved the HQ in 2014, the core team including the owners are also on Cyprus, and finally half of AdGuard websites are even blocked by russian authorities. Anyways, I guess we’ll never get rid of this badge so ignore my rant:)

Maybe link to a source for this info and people will recognize.

It’s better in every respect you could name

The Readme file has a section on that:

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome#how-does-adguard-...

I could be wrong but I don’t think pihole supports DNS over TLS out of the box. But AdGuard does

This is one setting on a regular router IIRC.

They’re going to get an increase in biter attacks if they don’t knock it off.

“ The sun is setting on the era of Bitcoin dominance. ”

The only thing that will do that is govt regulation.

I think serious crash of economy might do that.

Whatever the gold, silver and crypto people say. I see that crypto is just extension of traditional market casinos.

sleep, watch tv, and eat junk food hopefully rest enough to recover a sliver from the burnout so I can give it all to the job another week and survive long enough to repeat the cycle

#livingthedream

Reminds me of David foster Wallace this is water talk.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI

Social credit score. Stimulus that disappears if you don’t spend it the right way. Ability to freeze your accounts / take money out. Etc. mostly about control / power.

People who aren’t fat are more attractive. People who aren’t fat are more likely to eat healthy and exercise. Eating healthy and exercising improves your cognition.

And when I diet I do feel more will power and am not in auto-pilot, and am more likely to say no to other things I don’t want to do

As the ancient saying goes, "Mens sana in corpore sano".