Jan-Lukas Else

Thoughts of an IT expert

💭 Thoughts: 2019-11

Welcome to the Thoughts section of my blog. Thoughts are better kept on my blog than on Twitter or other online platforms.


Some thoughts about LibreOffice vs. Microsoft Office

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I usually prefer using LibreOffice over Microsoft Office because it’s free / libre software and I can use it on Linux. However, while writing a seminar paper, I noticed one feature that LibreOffice Writer is missing and that made me use Microsoft Word for the paper: literature index.

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Please put dates ABOVE your posts

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To all fellow bloggers,

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Creating an Instagram archive on my website

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Yesterday, I wrote it’s time to stop using Facebook, and I wrote about how I’m still using Instagram and WhatsApp.

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Trying Searx as search engine

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StartPage recently sold a majority stake in it’s company to the “Privacy One Group”, “a separate operating unit of System1”. You can read more about it here.

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Email domain names

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Do you know how difficult it is to tell someone your email address with your custom domain name?

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Walking

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This year, I did way less sports than last year. I’ve only done bodyweight training, but currently do it very irregular. I do running less regular too.

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Little improvements to my Micropub endpoint

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The great thing about my custom Micropub endpoint for Hugo is, that I can add all the features I need.

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Delete Twitter?

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Some time ago I decided to unfollow everyone on Twitter and put all accounts I previously followed into a list. This gave me the advantage to read tweets in a chronological order and not rely on what Twitter thinks is interesting to me or see “recommended” tweets.

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I am so grateful!

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A little over two months ago I got together with my best friend (whom I have known for several years) and since then my life has not been what it used to be. And I don’t mean that negatively.

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