Just make sure you have port 53 and 80 open. I recently had some problems myself trying to get Pi-Hole up and running. I already had dnsmasq taking up port 53 for a wifi hotspot, which conflicts with Pi-Hole’s own DNS. Aside from that, hosting any websites can also conflict with Pi-Hole’s frontend.

If you aren’t using your Pi 3 for anything yet then I already assume this shouldn’t be a problem though.

Good luck and have fun setting up your Pi-Hole!

If you want to take it to the extreme, Alpine is probably one of the best options.

Do I spot the cover art to one of Geoxor’s songs?

What the fuck did I just witness

Your best option to avoid unnecessary data collection is to just use a FOSS server. Paper (Github) is a pretty good one imo. It’s also super lightweight and has some really good performance tweaks.

No, sadly not. In northern Germany we don’t often see much wildlife, aside from the occasional deer or rabbit. We do have plenty of seagulls though.