The benefit of these is that they actively dry your filament as it rolls into the printer. At least mine does that which has been great to reduce the time needed to prep for my prints. Mine lets you set the temperature and it will keep that as it rolls in.

I heard about the food dryers but this was my choice also because I have limited space in my smaller home. This little box is about the size of a spool and sits behind my printer and I have it automated to turn on when I turn on my printer too.

I use a filament dryer for filaments which has increased the quality of my prints a bit. This is sort of what mine looks like

https://hilariouschaos.com/pictrs/image/60765622-ba16-4bac-9bfa-c3e4a17103a8.webp

In addition to adblocking, some people use it for family censoring like blocking porn and gore on the domain level. It’s a more effective means as it would mean that your kid can’t go to ph on the family computer as well as their iPad.

You can block individual domains if you wish but there are also a lot of lists out there that are generated and maintained by the community to include new sites as they arise.

I like it for my iPhone for playing free games like solitaire and the like. A lot of these have intrusive ads but the PiHole effectively blocks the ads and I don’t have to have any third party apps running on my phone.

Additionally, I set up a VPN on my Raspberry Pi so I can take this adblocking on the go too.

You can also set up the PiHole to keep a log history which some people may want or you can use it to never keep the history for privacy reasons. I suppose this is another use case in ensuring your DNS server at home doesn’t keep a history of websites you visit from any device on the network.

I’ve gotten it 3 times from 2 different accounts. The first account sent it to me twice on two separate days. Ironically from an account that I had replied to months before it spammed me.

Then it sent me it again a few weeks later from a different account, same picture but different name.

I’ve blocked both accounts so far, so they may have sent more and I just didn’t see the other attempts.

Hilarious chaos has been pretty cool in this regard. I like that the admins don’t take themselves seriously and are very active here.