Work smarter and harder

I’ve never done so many video conferences, to the point where they’re not even called that any longer, they’re just ‘meetings’ once more. While a lot of these have been through LXF Tower’s Google Meet system, I have had the pleasure of using Jitsi, and my word it’s accomplished – but then why wouldn’t it be?

Open source office solutions are no longer ‘also ran’ options, but firstworld choices. Last issue we caught up with Libreoffice 7.0 and its many advancements, being used in governments and enterprises around the world. This issue we’re focusing how an open source smart home office looks and runs with a bit of help from the Raspberry Pi.

From setting up a low-overhead video conferencing system to collaborative document editing and sharing, to more mundane smart|home control options, this is what happens when we leave Jonni to his own devices at home for six months!

Hopefully you’ll find something that will be of genuine use around your new working-from-home home office, or at least something for which use a spare Pi.

We also have a host of the usual great open source tutorials to keep you busy now autumn is here and the nights are starting to draw in… My favourite is Les Pounder’s Amiga emulation tutorial, as he covers what made this platform so great and the crazy projects that are still being developed on it! We go out on a limb and test some science-packed maths packages, chuck Ubuntu on the Pi, organise our lives with Mindforge and loads more, so enjoy!