19:17:34 From Chris Taylor to Everyone: All members in good standing as of March 31, 2022 will have membership expiry date extended by one year at no charge Want to join the OPCUG? - https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ Want to present at Q&A? Give us your material and we can create slides, or we have a PowerPoint template you can download and use: https://opcug.ca/downloads/Q&A-Template.potx Send in questions, shares, etc SuggestionBox@opcug.ca 19:18:24 From Bob Walker to Everyone: URL's for tonight's Privacy Presentation Best private search engines that won't track you in 2022: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/best-private-search-engine/ 9 Best Private Search Engines for 2022: https://restoreprivacy.com/private-search-engine/ 19:26:35 From micheline to Everyone: I am currently researching/searching for a new computer to replace my 12-year old desktop that now fails repeatedly. I am looking for a desktop that is 100mm wide, about 10L in size. Any suggestions for the brands I should look at? I am looing at hhp, Dell, Asus, Lenovo and Intel (NUC) 19:26:35 From Alan German to Everyone: If you have questions tonight, type them into the chat window. This will be monitored throughout the session... 19:27:04 From bea to Everyone: If there is time today if anyone has an idea of a free scanning program - my HP app seems to have stopped working- thanks bea - no rush 19:27:39 From micheline to Everyone: That should read: I am looking at hp, Dell, Asus, Lenovo and Intel (NUC). 00:27:25 Chris Taylor: Excel Tips & Tricks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdnAeqxqdzM 00:28:30 Chris Taylor: PowerToys From GitHub https://aka.ms/installpowertoys From Microsoft Store https://aka.ms/getPowerToys From PowerShell using Windows Package Manager winget install Microsoft.PowerToys --source winget - good overview of PowerToys https://www.pcworld.com/article/563788/seven-ways-in-which-microsofts-powertoys-improves-my-life.html 00:33:22 Tristan: Fancy Zones is a nice little feature. 00:35:10 Jocelyn Doire: is there a space before winget? 00:35:26 Jocelyn Doire: powershell -winget install Microsoft.powertoys --source winget 00:36:25 Chris Taylor: Atomic Clock https://nrc.canada.ca/en/certifications-evaluations-standards/canadas-official-time/network-time-protocol-ntp https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=partl.atomicclock Lucid DayDream Screensaver (for Android) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.j4velin.ultimateDayDream 00:39:06 Chris Taylor: @Joc - no - just run PowerShell and then at its prompt, type 00:39:09 Chris Taylor: winget install Microsoft.powertoys --source winget 00:39:22 Chris Taylor: all on one line 00:39:37 Jocelyn Doire: ok 00:41:25 Timothy: Live tv shows have a 7 second delay to air to catch the bad words that might slip in. 00:41:33 Tristan: For the winget command, you must have already installed winget on your PC. I covered the how to do so in the newsletter. 00:42:27 Tristan: Would also suggest running your PowerShell windows as Administrator, to avoid extra prompting. 00:42:55 Jocelyn Doire: thanks for the info 00:45:13 Glen: Are AMOLED screens the same as OLED. If not, then OLED screens also burn in? 00:46:03 Chris Taylor: @Tristan - thanks for rouding things out with WINGET! 00:46:12 Chris Taylor: winget install Microsoft.powertoys --source winget 00:46:32 Chris Taylor: damn, that's not what I thought was on my cipboard! 00:46:49 Chris Taylor: VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org 00:47:56 Tristan: I recently saw that on Linux using QEMU for virtualization is far more performant. May be worth tryin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq849CpGd88 00:58:58 Tom Trottier: Or go back to Amiga.... 01:00:27 Tom Trottier: https://www.hivesystems.io/blog/the-dangers-of-qr-codes 01:02:14 Tom Trottier: https://www.techopedia.com/the-dangers-of-qr-codes/2/34413 01:03:34 Chris Taylor: QR code scanning - detecting malicious links Sophos Intercept X for Mobile has a QR code scanner that can look for malicious links https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sophos.smsec 01:06:40 Alan German: https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-hackers-are-compromising-legit-qr-codes-to-send-you-to-phishing-sites 01:07:52 Alan German: Quick Tip 39: Check shortened URLs https://opcug.ca/Articles/2201NEWS.pdf 01:11:28 Tom Trottier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#Risks 01:12:14 Timothy: https://www.pcmag.com/news/what-does-big-tech-know-about-you-basically-everything?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=1804015. This is a interesting read and visual table format. 01:15:02 Tom Trottier: https://metager.org/ 01:19:29 Tom Trottier: open metager.org, and you can add as search engine from the list of cureent engines via emoji at left of search entry field in firefox frame 01:20:13 Tom Trottier: https://www.qwant.com/ 01:21:20 Tom Trottier: Ditto for adding Qwant - click the little plus 01:24:00 Tom Trottier: the little plus is green 01:24:26 Bob Walker: URL's for tonight's Privacy Presentation Best private search engines that won't track you in 2022: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/best-private-search-engine/ 9 Best Private Search Engines for 2022: https://restoreprivacy.com/private-search-engine/ 01:26:24 E O'Driscoll: I agree that DuckDuckGo does a fairly good job. 01:26:33 Natalie: I've also had good success with DDG for many years. 01:27:04 E O'Driscoll: I wonder if engines that resort to crawlers take longer to return results? 01:27:25 E O'Driscoll: Very interesting about these alternates. 01:27:43 E O'Driscoll: I never heard about SwissCows. 01:29:24 Natalie: Thanks! 01:30:39 E O'Driscoll: About the Linux/Windows10 presentation: do I understand correctly that, apart from the fact that you like Linux, the advantage of putting Windows10 as a virtual machine on Linux is that after 2025 when no patches are coming, you can still use Windows10 without worry? Is that part of what you were saying? 01:32:11 E O'Driscoll: OK thank you. I get it now. 01:34:04 Wayne: Thanks for the Excellent presentations. 01:34:08 Tom Trottier: Does a,nyone have an idea of a free scanning program - my HP app seems to have stopped working Are AMOLED screens the same as OLED. Ifnot, then do OLED screens also burn in? 01:34:08 Tristan: Thanks everyone! 01:34:13 E O'Driscoll: Good night and see you next week. 20:37:47 From Timothy to Everyone: Very good presentations. 20:38:09 From Jocelyn Doire to Everyone: it was interesting, thanks!