What I'd love for someone to share is the MVP Linux machine I can use to run PiHole... Starter Raspberry Pis (e.g. by Canakit) ... are >$150 CAD on amazon.ca which just seems so expensive.
the canakit packages are luxury items with a bunch of stuff you don't need.
get a pi, an sd card, a power supply, and a cardboard box to shove it into. you don't need any of the other stuff they include.
also get an old pi, not one of the most recent. maybe ask around, lots of folks have a box of older pis. i'd certainly love to get rid of all of the 1s and 2s i've got.
Mine runs on a years-old Raspberry Pi Model B Rev 2. A Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ (which has an ethernet port), SD Card and case is about £40 at pihut, that's CAD70
A Zero 2 W with wireless is half that or less including the case, SD Card and power supply.
get a pi, an sd card, a power supply, and a cardboard box to shove it into. you don't need any of the other stuff they include.
also get an old pi, not one of the most recent. maybe ask around, lots of folks have a box of older pis. i'd certainly love to get rid of all of the 1s and 2s i've got.