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I'm not a pihole user (I use NextDNS which is like a cloud version of pihole).
I'd say turning your router off at night is a bit unusual, nowadays there tends to be plenty of stuff that uses it day and night but whatever floats your boat. If you're worried about the pi then get a UPS for it, the decent ones come with software to shut the pi down when they detect a power outage or you can set it up to turn off when it detects the network has gone off.
Whether you screw stuff up will mainly depend on how aggressive you are with the blocking.
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Do you keep your router & pi on 24/7?
The only people I know who don't are you and an 88 year old lady in the Austrian Alps who we sometimes stay with who turns her router off at 7pm "to save you from the air waves and help you sleep better".
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Pihole users:
Do you keep your router & pi on 24/7? We switch off habitually at night / empty house. This seems ok for routers but could be bad for the pi unless we all know how to access it and shutdown safely, which isn't going to happen it'll just be mains plug switch off by others.
My partner is wfh, on chromebook iirc. How likely is it I'll screw up some of her work applications? I'm thinking unlikely unless they are on an ad service?
Any general learning tips?
Fwiw: I've set it up so it's just my phone going via the pihole for now. This is cos 1) I can't access the hub settings (virgin, printed on box "settings password" doesn't work) and 2) I don't want to stuff up all the other devices access just yet. I've a feeling the dhcp & dns settings mean it'll break temporarily me tomorrow once I power stuff back up.