00:08:27 Chris Taylor, OPCUG President: Welcome to all members and guests! Want to join the OPCUG? - https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ Everyone will be muted during the presentation. Feel free to use the Chat window to comment and ask questions. After the presentation, people will be able to unmute themselves. Please feel free to do so if you want to ask a question or make a comment 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 00:10:44 Bob Herres: I noticed that tonight's agenda is exceptionally impressive! Wow Thank you! 😲 00:11:40 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: One might say Facebook entered META pause earlier this week. 00:15:40 Chris Taylor, OPCUG President: Windows Update support support https://support.microsoft.com/en-us toll-free number 800-642-7676 00:16:50 Chris Taylor, OPCUG President: Checking the RAM (slots, type, amount, capacity) in your PC https://www.crucial.com 00:24:13 Chris Taylor, OPCUG President: I have an alert on any withdrawal from my accounts at my bank. Unfortunately, it just tells me "a withdrawal happened" Not the amount or when the money went. It is only an issue when I have anutomatic bill payment. I have to sign on to my account to make sure it was not fraud. 00:24:53 Chris Taylor, OPCUG President: "where the money went" 00:26:26 Chris Taylor, OPCUG President: With PC Mastercard, I have an alert on every transaction which is great. Generally within a couple of minutes, I get a text saying a transaction happen3ed 00:28:16 Allison: I have the same with PC Mastercard and it is good but I don't get an alert for every transaction. It seems to miss some online purchases and also one charge that I have set up automatically. 00:30:04 bea: dO YOU EVER WORRY THAT ALL YOUR BANK INFORMATION IS NOW ON YOUR GMAIL? 00:30:06 Chris Taylor, OPCUG President: Alan’s 3-part series on partitions What are partitions and why would you want to add one or more? https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20240103_PowerPoint.pdf How to add partitions https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20240124_PowerPoint.pdf Using your new partition for backups https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20240131_PowerPoint.pdf AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard https://www.diskpart.com/download.html EaseUS Partition Master Free https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-free.html 00:40:03 Tom Trottier: I f you want to nuke your ENTIRE disk for reuse or sale, consider using DBAN to nuke all of iet. https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/ 00:40:06 Tom Trottier: it 00:42:28 Tom Trottier: For reusing disks, you can buy cheaply disk cases with a USB 3 connection. - $5-20 00:43:49 Tom Trottier: dban: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/ 00:43:58 Tom Trottier: Darik's Boot and Nuke 00:44:21 Tristan: Just be aware dban is only good for spinning hard drives not SSD. 00:45:37 Chris Taylor, OPCUG President: Facebook first impressions (privacy) https://www.wired.com/story/ways-facebook-tracks-you-limit-it/ https://allaboutcookies.org/how-to-turn-off-facebook-tracking 00:49:34 Tom Trottier: In Firefox, you can "contain" facebook to its own webpages rather than tracking you everywhere via this exteinsion: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/ 00:50:04 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: Quick not on partitioning. I use GParted (GNOME Partition Editor) which is a bootable Linux distro with a partition manager GUI. Available at: https://gparted.org/ 00:52:40 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: If you access Facebook with a browser on a PC (as opposed to an app on a device) you can installed Facebook Purity (aka Fluff Buster) to pretty much eliminated all the ads (or content) you wish to strip from you news feed. Select the extension for the browser you use: https://www.fbpurity.com/ 01:00:45 Tom Trottier: Firefox also constrains all cookies to the site that set them. 01:01:43 Tom Trottier: -- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/total-cookie-protection-and-website-breakage-faq 01:01:59 Bob Herres: Re: Facebook... Excellent! Very well done! I've been on Facebook "lightly" for several years. I always get totally lost in those settings... I learned a Lot !! Thank you! πŸ’— 01:02:51 Bill: Yes, it can be confusing. 01:03:20 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Two more items to go. Any burning questions for the last ten (or whatever)? 01:03:46 Lynda Buske: Excellent presentation on Facebook! 01:04:05 Allison: Really good info on Facebook, thank you! 01:04:18 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Excellent presentati..." with πŸ‘ 01:04:18 Gail Eagen(OPCUG Secretary): Thank you, Elizabeth 01:04:22 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Really good info on ..." with πŸ‘ 01:04:30 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Thank you, Elizabeth" with πŸ‘ 01:04:57 Bill: Great information Elizabeth! Well done. 01:05:17 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Great information El..." with πŸ‘ 01:05:40 Chris Taylor, OPCUG President: SharewareOnSale https://sharewareonsale.com/ 01:06:43 Timothy: I use https://softwarekeep.ca/ to buy my software. 01:07:05 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: SharewareOnSale regularly has Office on sale for about $30. Or you can buy standalone Access from MS for $159 https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/microsoft-365/p/access/cfq7ttc0hhmx?activetab=pivot:overviewtab 01:07:34 Tristan: Office is the same price on the Techspot store as well. Which is the store for a well known technology news site. https://store.techspot.com/sales/microsoft-office-professional-plus-2019-for-windows-3 01:07:42 Tristan: US$ though of course. 01:09:08 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): @Jeff I saw that $159 offer but it didn't say which version of Access! 01:12:56 Chris Taylor, OPCUG President: How to assess accuracy of AI chatbots NVIDIA’s open source project NeMo Guardrails https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-chatbot-guardrails-nemo/ Got It AI’s TruthChecker https://www.app.got-it.ai/truthchecker 01:14:52 Tristan: For the adventurous, there is an Language Model you can run on your own computer (if have a powerful video card). https://ollama.com/ 01:16:40 E O'Driscoll: Tech companies always oversell everything. 01:16:48 Bob Herres: Awesome Content tonight! Much appreciated! πŸ‘ 01:16:55 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: I thought the guy's name was Jesus... 01:17:31 Gail Eagen(OPCUG Secretary): Thank you. Great Session! 01:17:31 Timothy: great presentations tonight. 01:17:51 Natalie: Thanks for the great info. 01:17:51 Ed Morawski: Great presentations! 01:18:24 Wayne: Thanks for the great info. 01:18:27 Bill: Lots of good info tonight. Thanks 01:18:33 E O'Driscoll: Great info - so much to take in.