I’m doing my part!

Steve deez nuts

at most, an 8th-grader

Phew, looks like my 6th grade education is finally paying off!

wire guard vpn port

This is the only thing forwarded. As for devices the worst offender would be my Roku TV but I’m not sure how much of a security threat that actually would be. More of a privacy threat, hence running pihole.

My setup is pretty basic, only thing I have is a media server accessed locally, and a pi running pihole and pivpn that has a port forwarded on my router for remote access. The pi has password login disabled, and the port forward is set to the static IP set for the pi with my router. The router has the firewall set, but nothing on any other machine. Do I need more?

It seems that the consensus from all the comments is that you do in fact need a firewall. So my question is how does that look exactly? A hardware firewall device directly between modem and router? I using the software firewall on the router enough? Or, additionally having software firewall installed on all capable devices on the network? A combination of the above?

Newpipe is amazing. Every time I have to use the youtube app I’m blown away people put up with that level of nonsense. Just ads non stop.