I've never used PiHole. Started using technitium a year ago and set it to block ads for me. I never worry about it or touch it. It works great!

I use unbound but I'll have to take a look at this. Looks great for folks who like gui configuration like pihole.

Yes. Solid as too

But have you use blocky and unbound... ?

I bought an extra router for Christmas, with the goal of learning some home network tricks with OpenWRT or something. When I started reading about doing DNS at home, I could only find pages/info that felt like I was being thrown into the deep end of the pool. Maybe I should just play with this and ...