Same, buts been several years now. Att fiber. Don't use their modem either (except post power outage to establish coms back then I remove it.) I do use a ddyns service just in case. But it's been the same ip for years
What hardware do you have already? Is pihole running on a rpi? Look into setting up wire guard or tail scale. Then you can have pihole on your phone while your not at home.
Go old school and setup some basic website with apache2.
So this could be boiled down to "use or lose it". Idk, maybe this might be part of it. Maybe a part of the prevalence of short form media blah blah attention span.
That's bad, but that aside - It might be time to consider alternate power delivery to these cards. The power they need should warrant having a standard c13 plug directly on em or something.
Used to be a field repair tech for several oems. The XPS usually suffered hinge issues. They decided it was a good idea to use press fitted standoffs in plastic to anchor the screen hinges...and the plastic is not very thick.
Same, buts been several years now. Att fiber. Don't use their modem either (except post power outage to establish coms back then I remove it.) I do use a ddyns service just in case. But it's been the same ip for years