i did use meshcentral before which did work quiet well.

Both have some iso to download as linux driver available on their website have you checked whats included there?

https://www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.de/de/support/downloads.name-L2RlL2RlL21mcC9GUzEyMjBNRlA=.html

This! Never managed to get this achievement 😃

By pihole. Iirc the default limit is 1000 requests per minute

Have you checked if you’re rate limited? I was getting rate limited while downloading games from steam which took me several hours to debug.

Not sure if this is your problem but it might be a thing to check out.

crowdsec can be setup to configure your firewall so all incoming traffic will be filtered by the banlists.