Jan-Lukas Else
Jan-Lukas Else — Developer and self-hosting enthusiast
Thoughts of an IT expert
janlukas.blogJan-Lukas Else builds his own blogging platform (GoBlog), runs his own servers, and writes about the process of maintaining digital independence. The blog is a mix of short notes, technical posts about self-hosting, and personal updates — all published on infrastructure he controls. It's the kind of blog that practices what the IndieWeb preaches.
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Replacing the battery in my electric toothbrush
I haven’t soldered anything since school. When we decluttered the flat some years ago, I gave away all the soldering gear of my dad. But this year, I finally soldered again. I upgraded my electric toothbrush with a much bigger battery, going from an aging 700 mAh to 2300 mAh. As we have three of those Braun / Oral-B Vitality (Pro) toothbrushes, I was thinking it might be worth it to try to repair one and see if I can replace or maybe even upgrade the battery. I had to recharge it every second da...
Struggling with music selfhosting
I mentioned in my last monthly review that I’m currently switching from Deezer (my streaming alternative after the previous cheap YouTube Premium trick stopped working) to a self hosted music setup. I first tried Nextcloud Music, as I already have Nextcloud, a Storage Share at Hetzner, so I just created a new folder for music, copied my MP3s into it, and installed the Nextcloud Music app. It offers a Subsonic and Ampache API that can be used with various apps. After doing a bit more research, I...
My September ‘26 in Review
And here we go again; another month has passed, and the year is flying by. Now that it’s getting colder again, even though there were a few warm days in between, I’ve only gone on my bike a few times. Let’s see if I can use all my cold-weather cycling gear again soon. Instead, I’ve dedicated more time to my tech passion and bought some new equipment. After buying the DJI Mic 3 in August, I made two more audio-related purchases this month. First, I bought the soundcore AeroClip (first generation)...
New headphones: soundcore AeroClip
After one and a half years, there’s a new addition to my collection of almost exclusively soundcore headphones: the open-ear soundcore (by Anker) AeroClip. As I wrote recently, I purchased a DJI Mic 3 (150 €) to improve my audio input for work calls. It’s the microphone many influencers use, and from my tests, the quality is perfect. For a few days I used it in combination with my soundcore AeroFit 2. But I noticed when wearing them for the whole workday, it gets a bit uncomfortable, even though...
My August ‘26 in Review
Another month has passed and my monthly review is a bit late this time. Why? We’ll get to that in a moment. First, let’s take a look back at August. At the beginning of the month, we enjoyed our last day in South Tyrol and then started the long journey back. We were stuck in a traffic jam for 1.5 hours on the highway because a car had driven into an ambulance that was responding to an accident on the other side of the road, which was also completely blocked. Was that a rubbernecking driver? Afte...
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