Are you serious? I had no idea Tailscale was a “trust me bro” kind of operation. I’ve always heard “serious” people boosting it.

Oh wow you totally had me at first with your username… but now I’m on to you!!

Alright thanks. Yes I have just read about “stock android” and “skinned android”, although I suppose it can also be called “default operating system”. Even “stock android” seems to have more than one meaning- on one hand it can mean AOSP before putting Google and manufacturing company stuff on it, and on the other hand it can mean what you pointed out, as in “flash stock android before installing a custom ROM”. Lots of new terminology and the custom ROMs game has been around so long there is tons of old and outdated methods and information. Now reading about A/B partitioning… so much left to learn!

Take the L and keep going.

This is solid advice.

I still don’t get it though, and I’m sure there’s a lot of terminology I don’t know yet about custom ROMs so maybe that’s where the misunderstanding lies. Are you telling me that LineageOS is the same operating system as the Android I already have on my phone? No, right?

I feel like this is like saying “I’m going to delete Ubuntu off my laptop and install Pop!_OS” and someone comes along and says “akshully POP!_OS is Ubuntu!” or saying they’re both Debian or something.

An astute observation, franzbroetchen. The OS in LineageOS literally stands for Operating System, which ima change. On my phone. From Android to LineageOS.

You’ve gotta look at the context of the words sometimes, comrade. I am not looking to change my Android phone into an Apple phone lol

See those words are all unknown to me ':D

I appreciate your expertise tho

My favorite part of this post is that I asked a question before even dipping my toes into the world of custom ROMs and literally 40 seconds after I posted, JASN_DE hit me up with the equivalent of “akshully it’s GNU/Linux” XD

It’s like Stevie Wonder said, “Nerds, keep on nerdin” lol <3

What happened? This is my only phone so I would rather not brick it.

I want to change the operating system on my phone from Android to LineageOS. Yes, they are both based on AOSP and you are absolutely right, I want to de-Google my mobile phone.

Oh, is this an akshully? Man you are cool and smart!

Very cool, thanks!

Thanks! This is just what I was looking for.

Programmer Humor x Dad Jokes

Yes! It has a firewall! :D

Turning it off yielded the same results :(

Ping works only by IP address. Pinging a hostname gives me Temporary failure in name resolution

Dig gives me SERVFAIL but at least it’s using the right DNS resolver (the pihole installed on the same computer)

;; SERVER: 192.168.1.102#53(192.168.1.102) (UDP)

and pihole.log is full of

query[A] github.com from 192.168.1.102
2025-08-xxx forwarded github.com to 127.0.0.1#5335
2025-08-xxx forwarded github.com to 127.0.0.1#5335
2025-08-xxx reply error is SERVFAIL

Trying to update gravity on the pihole browser dashboard (which at least works) gives me

try to update gravity

  [✗] DNS resolution is currently unavailable
  [i] Waiting up to 120 seconds for DNS resolution............

But I wonder what it means that all queries are coming from a client named pihole. On other installations it just shows the client as their local IP address.

Client:  pi.hole 192.168.1.102
Query Status:  Forwarded, reply from 127.0.0.1#5335
Reply:  SERVFAIL

Thanks for your help!

No, it wasn’t that :/

The other thing that’s strange is that it all queries are coming from the client pihole:

Client:  pi.hole <local IP address>

Query Status:  Forwarded, reply from 127.0.0.1#5335

Reply:  SERVFAIL

The pihole is installed on the same computer that it’s supposed to be the DNS resolver for (no access to router). I followed the instructions to the tee when installing pihole + unbound from the pihole website, but for some reason it’s not working. All queries get SERVFAIL :/

Oh yea, excellent point. I’ll have to check that out next time, thanks.