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I’ve been trying to connect my Sony ZV-E10 to my phone over USB so I could use the phone as an external monitor. Everyone on YouTube suggests using the Monitor+ app, so I decided to follow that advice. However, every time I tried, I got the following error message: Unable to connect to your device, either PC Remote is not turned on or the device is not supported. After I finally solved the problem, I discovered that the solution was actually in the app’s help menu (the ? button on the main screen). I had looked at it while troubleshooting, but I wasn’t convinced the solution applied to my situation. It turns out it did. ...

I was surprised today to find out that Firefox was using my ISP’s DNS server — even though I had a local Pi-hole set up to use Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1. It was my mistake. When I set up Pi-hole in my router’s DHCP settings, I forgot about DHCPv6. Once I added the local IPv6 address of my Pi-hole as the DNS server for DHCPv6, my ISP’s DNS server stopped showing up in the test. ...

Let’s say you have a Samsung phone. You connect to a Wi-Fi network and get a notification saying: [Wi-Fi name] has no internet access This could happen because your phone isn’t getting DNS responses for certain domains, such as: www.google.com google.com connectivitycheck.gstatic.com play.googleapis.com www.goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com (not a joke) …and a few others. You can find the full list by capturing the DNS queries your phone makes when connecting to Wi-Fi. I ran into this issue when trying to connect to my home Wi-Fi, and my Pi-hole was actively blocking DNS requests. ...