dream_weasel

First sentence of each paragraph: correct.

Basically all the rest is bunk besides the fact that you can’t count on always getting reliable information. Right answers (especially for something that is technical but non-verifiable), wrong reasons.

There are “stochastic language models” I suppose (e.g., click the middle suggestion from your phone after typing the first word to create a message), but something like chatgpt or perplexity or deepseek are not that, beyond using tokenization / word2vect-like setups to make human readable text. These are a lot more like “don’t trust everything you read on Wikipedia” than a randomized acid drop response.

Ssh to pihole. $ pihole restartdns usually works for me

Cool

Why do I want to do this?

I reserve everything below .100 for static IP devices like switches/access points and my work devices, the rest is all dynamic lease DHCP.

I could just set up a dashboard or figure out how to use hostnames, but I’m a caveman and I remember the IPs of the devices I want to ssh or browse to in my network.

So separate WiFi name or (or probably router/AP) for separate vlan?

I like your funny words magic man.

As a total novice for networking (setting up 4 hat rules for my pihole was… tough), how bad are vlans to set up?