Jan-Lukas Else

The power of control

Published on 2024-05-13 in 💭 Thoughts

You know, I’ve found a pretty effective way to reduce my addiction to certain websites: blocking them at the DNS level using NextDNS. It’s a trick I picked up after realizing I was spending far too much time on Hacker News (my addiction to that is gone for quite some time already!). And now? I’ve extended it to a forum I used to frequent multiple times a day.

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This blog has no Onion Service anymore

Published on 2024-05-11 in 💬 Micro

I had Tor support in GoBlog for over three years now, but I decided to disable it on my blog (and the GoBlog blog) for now. Several times, Tor randomly started using a lot of memory on my VPS and even crashed my block one or two times. It could have been the Go library used to integrate Tor, or something else in the Tor code itself, I don’t know.

I think I’ll leave the Tor support in the code for people who want to use GoBlog with it, but I, personally, won’t use it anymore. It was a nice experiment, but I don’t think it adds any real value.

More memory for my new GoToSocial instance. 😄 (which isn’t using a lot of memory, though)

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Published on 2024-05-07 in 💬 Micro

Feeling extra special at 25 with this amazing strawberry cake made by my girlfriend. Grateful for her love and culinary skills on my birthday! 🍓✨

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Published on 2024-05-03 in 💭 Thoughts

From my father, there’s still an old Commodore 64 he used when he was young. I kept it since I thought I might try some retro-computing. But now (some years later) in the process of cleaning up my flat and throwing out things I no longer need, I tried to connect it to the TV, but somehow didn’t get it working. It might be the wrong cable, the wrong adapter, or just a faulty graphics unit in this device. I will just sell it on eBay untested. In the end, I think I wouldn’t enjoy that device much anyway. I grew up with much newer computing hardware and, unlike my dad, software is my passion, not hardware.

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My April ‘24 in Review

Published on 2024-05-01 in ✍️ Posts

Updated on 2024-05-01

New month, new monthly review. This time for April. And a short review, because not much exciting has happened.

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I finally found the perfect 5G router setup!

Published on 2024-04-30 in ✍️ Posts

I have written a lot already about my search for the perfect 5G router. It’s time for a new update, as I think I have finally found a great solution.

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Published on 2024-04-20 in 💬 Micro

📍 Küchengraben, Germany

A few sheep are mowing the lawn in the park. And there is at least one lamb too! 🐑🐑🐑 “määähhh”

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What a week!

Published on 2024-04-12 in 💭 Thoughts

What a week! This week I was on vacation, but I didn’t relax at all. I worked harder than on workdays. Since my mother and I finally emptied all the furniture from the apartment I grew up in and moved out of two years ago (I even moved again after it).

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Published on 2024-04-12 in 💬 Micro

Looking at the commit history of Tailscale’s tailscale-android repository on GitHub, there are plenty of hints that a revamped Tailscale Android app (even with dark mode!) is coming soon. 👀

Let’s hope the new UI will be much better (old UX). And it’s great to see that Tailscale is not only focused on Apple devices! 👍

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Published on 2024-04-07 in 💬 Micro

In the summer of ‘22 I upgraded my perfectly working soundcore Liberty 2 Pro to the Liberty 3 Pro because they have ANC and have been using them ever since. But since the L2P are still working perfectly, I connected them to my phone again and use them sometimes. Too sad to let them rot in the closet, and I guess nobody wants to buy used in-ear headphones.

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