The next Tinkerers meeting will be on Saturday 26th July 2025.   We will meet at the STEAM café at first for drinks / catch up then at some point move over to what was the Tea Shed which is 2 minutes walk away to have a look at the Lego Robots as part of the venue’s STEAM Bots project.

If you are not sure what this is,   then Mike who runs both the Tea Shed and STEAM Café has obtained various Lego Robot and the arena, which were used as part of Warrior bots.

The idea us to run something similar but also give people an opportunity to build their own, maybe not on the same scale as these robots, but smaller, with the Lego remote controls we can still build some cool stuff.

If you want more information on this, please contact STEAM Directly

STEAM CAFE & DISCOVERY CENTRE

13 TORBAY ROAD

PAIGNTON

At present, they only have a facebook page.   I can’t do much about that.   I can be contacted via the mailing list or via the Lug matrix channel.

With support for MS Windows 10 ending, on October 14th.  There may be many reasons you don’t want to, or are unable to upgrade to Windows 11.  There is now a campaign growing to get people together to help upgrade computers to a Linux distro.

End of `10

Has all the details and links to various groups, the UK is very underrepresented on here but if there is anyone in the South West who can maybe help then maybe we can make a difference to a few users out there.

LibreOffice 24.8.7 is available for download – The Document Foundation Blog

Berlin, 8 May 2025 – LibreOffice 24.8.7, the seventh and last minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free open source, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available at www.libreoffice.org/download. LibreOffice is the only office suite that respects the privacy of the user, ensuring that the user is able to decide if and with whom to share the content they create. It even allows deleting user related info from documents. In addition, it has a feature set comparable to the leading product on the market.

This is apparently the last of the 24.x release. If you want the latest LibreOffice, then you can download 24.2

As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database

Posted to the register, so just linking here.  It may be of interest to lug members and the wider community.

EU security bug database

Gopher 2

I have set up an account at vern.cc, as they host gopher as well as other services such gemini and you can also host your own html pages.

Vern.cc

As part of the sign-up process you need to provide a public key, this is generated as part of a public / private key pair, generated by ssh-keygen.

Once you are set up, they will let you know and you can log in. If you set up a local **gophermap** you can upload this and get started.

One important note is that gopher uses tabs not spaces, so it is important to configure your text editor so that it treats a tab as a tab, not as spaces, or you get problems with links and content on your gopher site. How you do this depends, of course, on the editor you are using.

Once set up you can host text, upload files and link to them so they can be downloaded, and have your own little space. You can also link to other gopher users. See links list to one of the tutorials I used.

If new to gopher you may want to read up first, I would also suggest hangout on the vern matrix channel so you can ask for help. I am on here, as well as the DCLUG  matrix channel.

• Vern,cc Matrix
• DCLUG Matrix
• Gopher Tutorial

While gopher may be old and retro, it can be a good project or distraction and still fun to play around with. It also has the advantage of no cookies, no tracking, advertising or other bloat you get with modern websites.

Have fun

Paul