Julian Hocker

Category: General

  • My musical discoveries 2019

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    It is the end of the year and I want to use this time to look back at cool new music that came out and cool music that is maybe not so new, but I discovered new. It is kind of hard to tell what was the best new stuff, so I decided to make…

  • Why political discussions on Twitter don’t work

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    Twitter and social media are everywhere. It also seems that political discussions are mainly driven by Twitter and other platforms. Let’s just have a look who is on Twitter in Germany: Only 8% of Germans do have an account on Twitter. Probably this population is even screwed to people who are young, do have higher…

  • Minimalism/Frugalism

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    I would not consider myself a big minimalist, but after living two months on stuff I could fit into one suitcase and watching some videos about it, I am quite confident to talk about my experiences. I also try to have a quite minimalist lifestyle back in Germany, though. First, what does it mean? Basically,…

  • Installing Nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi using snap

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    Nextcloud offers some great functions when it comes to sharing data in your local network. I mainly needed a tool to sync a calendar on my network with my devices. I was also thinking about a lighter software like Baikal, but the installation of most of the others seemed more difficult to me than nextcloud,…

  • My Audio setup

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    In this article I will give a little big of background to my music system and why I use the certain components. First, the speakers: I use some speakers which enable me to give input via USB. This has the great advantage I can use whatever computer I want to push the music signals to…