3D Printing – followup & discussion
This month, David Price will be gently taking us through an introduction to a table top scale manufacturing process. As usual, plenty of time is reserved for discussions. Joining details[…]
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Category: Computing
u3a.social update
Overview In February 2025, I started presented my talk Is it time to move to the Fediverse ? to on-line and local u3a groups. Whilst the main goal of the[…]
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Home networking – followup & discussion
This month we look at home networking. We’ll cover broadband, Wi-Fi, standards, speeds, firewalls, in-bound connections plus some additional options. If you aren’t a member, it’s free to join here[…]
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Real time bidding – followup & discussion
This month we look at the Real Time Bidding (RTB) system – this is the mechanism that provides targeted ads to your web pages and devices. We’ll cover the basic[…]
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Ask the group anything – followup & discussions
This month we ran a “ask the group anything” session. Please add any comments you have related to this session below. If there was a subject raised which you think[…]
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Installing desktop GNU/Linux – followup & discussion
This month we look at installing desktop GNU/Linux. The talk will be demo focused. If you aren’t a member, it’s free to join here https://u3acommunities.org/subscribe-to-computing-forum/. Plenty of time is reserved[…]
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Local Generative AI – followup
This month, we discuss some of the options and issues about running your own Generative AI at home. As well as avoiding privacy issues with online Generative AI and reducing[…]
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Home electricity – 1 year update
A year or so ago I presented How to reduce your electricity bill to zero talk – it’s now been running for a year, so time to check progress. Unfortunately,[…]
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IPv4 and IPv6 addresses followup
Firstly, thank you for your patience as we tried kmeet/jitsi. Whilst a lot of it did work, and it has a number of advantages over zoom, I think we can[…]
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How generative AI works – followup
This month we look at Generative AI, including a bit of history, opening the pandoras box, how they work and how they compare. Will include a demo or two. If[…]
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