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Issue 324 (February 2025) - Get inside Open AI

We explore how AI and machine learning works, how you can get it running on your home PC and utilise open source builds to make it your own. From smart chat bots to image generation, recognition and we even pitch the best chat bots head to head!

PLUS: Inside the Pi 500, boost your Firefox browsing, enhance your Thunderbird email, edit OpenStreetMap like a pro, revive plotters of old, light up your world with OpenRGB, create your own Steam Deck, start coding with Basic Space Invaders and loads more.

 Features

Get inside Open AI

(Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Build a Steam Deck

(John Knight)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Intel's lakes, coves and skies

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Answers

(Neil Bothwick)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Administeria

classic terminal tricks (Stuart Burns)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coverdisc

Hotpicks

(Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Tutorials

Terminal: Steganography

(Shashank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Thunderbird

(Nick Peers)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Firefox

(Michael Reed)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

OpenStreetMap: editing

(Marco Fioretti)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Retro: pen plotters

(Mike Bedford)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Upgrade: OpenRGB keyboards

(Neil Mohr)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Picamzero

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coding Academy

Space Invaders part 1

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Xapian search engine

(David Bolton)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Reviews

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

GhostBSD 24,10

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Tucana Linux 3.1

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Br OS 24.10

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

BackBox 9

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Emteria OS

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Pi Pico 2 W

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Raspberry Pi 500

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

AI chatbots

(Michael Reed)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 More

News: News

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Pi news

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Kernel watch

(Jon Masters)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.