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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 00:14:45 KWG: I wondered if I had missed the official start… 00:15:04 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Welcome to OPCUG's 200th - yes, 200 and counting! - Q&A session. 00:15:18 Timothy: Happy 200th. 00:15:37 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Happy 200th." with ❤️ 00:16:44 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Welcome to OPCUG's 2..." with ❤️ 00:16:47 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): All of our meetings are open to both members and guests. If you are not an OPCUG member, please consider joining our club. Membership is just $20.00/year. Full details can be obtained from https://opcug.ca/why-join/ 00:20:08 tom: Some have solar power 00:20:35 tom: If no cloud, then if all stolen, no record 00:22:04 tom: I wonder if you could use dashcams.... but 12v 00:22:33 tom: h.265 uses less space 00:22:44 tom: h.264 videos easier to edit 00:25:20 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Share – Security Camera Setup https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20220420_PowerPoint.pdf 00:25:41 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Lorex 4K POE Cameras https://www.lorex.ca 00:26:53 Bob Herres: Wyze Cams have Cloud storage short term - days with No Monthly fees 00:27:15 Jocelyn Doire: how much space is needed typically? Does camera store typically only record when something is moving? 00:28:09 Bob G: Some cane 00:28:20 tom: The law and rules around home surveillance cameras in Canada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ph-ZOujWDI&t=464s&pp=ygUVcHJ pdmFjeSBjYW5hZGEgY2FtZXJh 00:28:22 Bob G: D 00:28:31 Bob G: Some cameras cam 00:28:37 Stew Bruce: If you are friendly with neighbours, you can have your cams point at them and they can point there cams at you. Good for extra coverage. 00:28:59 tom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ph-ZOujWDI&t=464s 00:29:03 Bill Van Dijk: My 8 Lorex cameras record continuously, and my 6TB HD provides 6 or 7 days recording. 00:29:30 Bob G: some cameras can be set to detect only humanoid featrures 00:30:51 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk.php?sat=G16 00:30:54 Bill Van Dijk: I tried the motion detection, but found it not very sensitive on the periphery 00:31:39 Timothy: My brother has a camera with the door bell. It takes a video or picture every few seconds. He can be in Florida when I go to his house to look at his dog. It was used to help solve a case with a neighbour who had a iPhone for sale stolen. 00:32:11 Bob G: try N 00:32:26 Bob G: tRY mANIFOLD VIEWER 00:33:02 Bob G: Manifold.net 00:41:21 Stew Bruce: Colours in the leaves are coming out very nicely here, The light today wasn't great but leafing season is open, Vikings would be a bonus.... 00:41:32 Carol Pearson: no glaciers? 00:42:32 bea: thanks great info 00:43:04 Allison Bryndza: looks gorgeous 00:43:57 tom: For very large images, try http://delhoume.frederic.free.fr/vliv.htm 00:44:15 E O'Driscoll: Looks like a great trip. I'd like to see Norway some time. Super photos. 00:44:59 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): JPG is dying https://www.pcworld.com/article/2466439/this-is-why-jpg-is-dying-and-these-are-its-successors.html 00:48:10 Timothy: a small JPG in size say under 100k will look great on a computer but when you go to print it, it comes out blocky. 00:54:41 tom: FWIW, It is extremely unlikely you will need more than 16 bits for each colour for human sensing 00:54:55 Ed Morawski: Does anyone know where DNG format stands? 00:56:25 tom: You can reduce JPGs to arbitrary sizes with RIOT & check how it appears with each try - https://riot-optimizer.com/ 00:57:45 tom: Useful to reduce to sector sizes/multipes on SSDs, eg 128k 00:58:16 Bill Van Dijk: JPEG is standard in all (?) cameras, any other formats in new ones yet? 00:58:20 Stew Bruce: DNG ? Do Not Go There.... 01:05:47 tom: Cameras now can store about 10-12 bits of colour. You can get more bits with "HDR" which takes 2+ pictures at different exposures and merges them. 01:06:45 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: PetaPixel on JPeg XL https://petapixel.com/2024/09/18/why-apple-uses-jpeg-xl-in-the-iphone-16-and-what-it-means-for-your-photos/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch-8xa8pT5M&t=1566s 01:09:58 tom: One of the more frustrating Windows 11 hardware requirements is the need for either firmware TPM or a Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM). Here’s a guide on where to buy the latter. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/where-to-buy-tpm-2.0-for-windows-11 01:11:38 Harvey Hope: Reminds me of the run up to Y2K 😯 01:12:52 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: 8 bit colour (per channel) = 256 colours per channel = 16.7 M colours 10 bit colour = 1024 colours per channel = 1 B colours 12 bit colour = 4096 colours per channel = 68 B colours 01:13:32 Stew Bruce: Replying to "Reminds me of the ru..." OMG, That was a hilarious exercise :) 01:13:42 E O'Driscoll: So, if you opt to use Linux, can you run Microsoft Excel? 01:13:43 Timothy: may need to take out a loan to get a new computer to run Windows 11 or above. 01:13:53 tom: To keep W10 safer,, use 0patch - https://0patch.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403751356050-Which-Windows-products-has-0patch-security-adopted 01:14:48 Tristan: Another option is installing Linux and then running Windows in a Virtual Machine. Doing so allows you access to both OS simutaneously. 01:15:01 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: You could always use the web-based Office apps. You can use Microsoft Office apps under WINE on Linux 01:15:12 Harvey Hope: Replying to "Reminds me of the ru..." It was ... COBOL programmers made a lot of money 01:16:52 Timothy: Replying to "Reminds me of the ru..." I was a COBOL programmer. I found the Y2k problem in 1982. 01:17:26 Bill Van Dijk: Is a TPM module a proper fix , or just a way to fool the system? 01:17:59 Jocelyn Doire: Or use LibreOffice, it can load and save Excel files. 01:18:56 Harvey Hope: Replying to "Reminds me of the ru..." Likewise ... in the mid 90's we moved to Microsoft Financial apps 01:19:33 tom: TPMs seem to be motherboard-specific. What we need is a USB TPM! 01:20:47 E O'Driscoll: Bob: I am interested in Ideogram but I cannot stay to participate. 01:21:01 Carol Pearson: thanks, see you next week. 01:21:11 E O'Driscoll: Many thanks for tonight! 01:33:41 tom: Q: do you always get the same image from the same Prompt? 01:37:09 tom: Are the 3D images stereo, or rotatable? 01:38:47 Harvey Hope: Thanks Bob 👍 01:45:52 tom: 🤩 01:56:52 Stew Bruce: Very Disney looking 02:00:32 Jocelyn Doire: Very cool indeed, thanks! 02:00:49 tom: It's like photos - EDIT 02:00:54 Timothy: that great guys. 02:01:10 Eldon Gaw: This has been an amazing jjourney