00:09:39 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Welcome to all members and guests! 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 00:13:45 Ed Morawski: A Q&A on New Year's Day?? Cool! 00:17:32 E O'Driscoll: I have Covid today, so I may drop off. 00:17:57 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Sorry to hear that Elizabeth! Hope you recover quickly 00:18:21 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: @ed - you will have the whole day to recover from partying the night before :-) 00:18:34 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Sorry to hear that E..." with ❤️ 00:20:54 Tom Trottier: Is K9 a dog? 00:23:06 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): K-9 Mail is an E-mail client for Android. Woof woof! 00:23:46 Jocelyn Doire: K9 was also Doctor Who's dog 00:26:58 Tom Trottier: That's the internet time format. Z indicates Zulu time, which is the same as GMT or UTC 00:28:40 Ed Morawski: cool desktop! 00:32:40 Carol Pearson: Basic is defender a default program, where is it? 00:33:50 Ma Vo: when you press the Windows Start button, you can "search" for Defender or Microsoft Defender 00:34:19 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: @Carol - if you don't have any other AV software, you will have Microsoft Defender. 00:37:23 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: ConfigureDefender https://github.com/AndyFul/ConfigureDefender https://github.com/AndyFul/ConfigureDefender/blob/master/ConfigureDefenderHelp.pdf 00:37:32 Barb: Price 00:38:13 Bob Herres: Excellent Tom TY! Very Informative & Well Done! 👍 00:41:00 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: From earlier slides (I have been negligent) 00:41:08 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Generative-AI Use Cases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okzIOEPiHM0 00:41:17 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Google Calendar mystery https://www.perplexity.ai/search/in-google-calendar-on-the-web-rnKExLRUSee4vT7iRr0ViA 00:47:32 Tom Trottier: Does Remove also remove the 69MB you also had to install? 00:48:24 Tom Trottier: Also, in ConfigureDefender, you have to reboot after changes for them to take effect 00:49:13 KWG: Alan, what apps/programs/software aren’t compatible with Linux? 00:50:07 Tom Trottier: When you choose one of the predefined configurations, you have to press the Refresh button if you want to see the settings before applying. When you open after the reboot, they will be shown without needing to Refresh 00:50:41 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Microsoft was NOT being generous or kind when they released those fonts to the masses. They have ulterior motives. 00:51:31 Tom Trottier: EULA elided 00:52:24 Tom Trottier: MS ALWAYS has ulterior motives... 00:52:57 Tom Trottier: & Opera is an offshoot of Chrome 00:54:23 KWG: Re Linux…I like the idea of getting away/escaping/being free from Windows, but with each Linux instalment, it is sounding like a lot of work/time to get me back to a working baseline, and I’m not feeling confident to take all of this on, on my own….. 00:54:53 mikev: Reacted to "Re Linux…I like the ..." with 👍 00:56:49 Stew Bruce: Obtusity. That is the definition of computer messages 00:56:51 Tom Trottier: I think simpler in Linux - one place to get other programs 00:58:56 Tom Trottier: Can you explain POSIX? 01:00:16 E O'Driscoll: @KWG-probably initial jitters 01:04:21 Ma Vo: reminds me of OS/2 days... not all Windows programs worked 01:08:00 Jocelyn Doire: I used WiFi analyser and selected a channel with the lowest signal 01:08:07 Carol Pearson: One Rogers person said mirrors between the router and source can cause interference. 01:08:14 Tom Trottier: Android wifi meashurement: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vrem.wifianalyzer 01:08:45 Stew Bruce: Get a smaller house 01:08:54 Bob Herres: I thought routers are always best placed up as high as practical etc. 01:10:02 Ma Vo: @Alan... have you tried a network cable? 01:10:16 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): If you have anu further info. on Wi-Fi extenders, please send details to SuggestionBox@opcug.ca 01:12:01 Harvey Hope: The analyzer can identify a channel with minimal traffic 01:13:37 Timothy: MIcrowaves can cause interference. 01:18:44 E O'Driscoll: Thanks, OPCUG explainers are great. 01:19:38 Bob Herres: Thank you to all that shared content tonight, Great evening TY 01:19:38 Harvey Hope: Thank you! 01:19:52 Carol Pearson: Thanks all