00:06:58 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Welcome to all members and guests! Guests, if you want to join, see 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 00:07:49 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: https://petapixel.com/2025/05/28/google-photos-turns-10-now-hosts-over-9-trillion-photos-and-videos/ Today marks the 10th anniversary of Google Photos. Google Photos has 1.5 billion monthly users and over 9 trillion photos and videos stored. 00:14:32 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Welcome to all members and guests! Guests, if you want to join, see https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ 00:15:19 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: DON'T FORGET!!!! If you want to come to the annual Pizza Party at the June 11th meeting, you MUST register by email at pizzaparty@opcug.ca. Tell us if you are bringing guests and how many, your pizza preference (e.g. combo, special, meat lover, vegetarian, gluten free, etc.), and if you need a ride or can offer a ride. Details at https://opcug.ca/events/annual-pizza-night/?occurrence=2025-06-11 00:19:04 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: •Calibre https://calibre-ebook.com/ 00:19:16 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools/releases 00:19:31 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: $30USD Kindle (pre-2025-04) DeDRM https://www.epubor.com/softwares.html 00:19:53 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Adobe Digital Editions https://www.adobe.com/ca/solutions/ebook/digital-editions/download.html 00:20:37 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: https://copyright.ubc.ca/public-domain/ 00:21:02 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: https://www.epubor.com/best-sites-for-public-domain-books.html 00:23:45 Natalie: Another free site for public domain items: https://openlibrary.org/subjects/public_domain 00:28:26 Steve Parker: ACSM is Adobe Content Server Message 00:32:42 Carol Pearson: Does it let you know if th book is unable to be downloaded. I'm surprised they lt you edit it? 00:33:31 Stew Bruce: Few people are aware that Shakespear was actually a horticuluralist. That family grew pear tress and wounld havest them by shakeing the trees to obtain fruit. 00:35:15 Serge-Érik: Why do you suggest removing the Digital Rights Management (DRM)? It is not just costly, but extremely costly for authors to add it to their books or other materials. 00:36:45 Tom Trottier: Data is useful for Fongo calls 00:37:38 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Lynda and I had a pretty bad experience with Saily as an eSIM provider. In Upper NY, we had very spotty coverage. I complained afterwards and asked if they had coverage maps. Annswer: no. And no offer of refund or credit or anything. 00:38:28 Tom Trottier: DRM tries to stop you from copying or accessing. If you own the book or if it is in the public domain, you can legally remove the DRM to allow you to access in your favorite ebook reader - not just Kindle/Kobo/... when that device may break and company stop supporting 00:39:34 Tom Trottier: Often SIMs are cheap when you get to your destination. I bought my Tansanian 5GB for %5 or so 00:39:38 Tom Trottier: $5 00:40:21 Ed Morawski: A dependable esim company for world-wide travel recommended by my CAA travel agent is https://www.airalo.com/ 00:40:41 Carol Pearson: There are still places in he US with spotty coverage, Adirondacks? 00:40:51 Ed Morawski: It does expire but there are lots of esim plans available 00:40:55 Tom Trottier: & Canada! 00:43:19 Lynda Buske: Replying to "There are still plac..." For three days I got no coverage while in the car and we were close to lots of large towns and cities. Pathetic. 00:43:48 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Rebuilding batteries https://www.totalbattery.com http://batteriesdixon.com 00:43:59 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: eSIM with non-expiring data https://www.sweatfree.co 00:44:16 Tom Trottier: @chris - links? 00:44:19 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Moving on from Windows 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4MKLikmMhw How to Setup Windows Properly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBCiMK4AmEI 00:44:55 Serge-Érik: Replying to "DRM tries to stop yo..." Understood. Thanks, Tom! 00:45:14 Stew Bruce: Replying to "There are still plac..." Heck, I will not pay for 5G coverage as where I live I often cannot get any service while moving about the city. 00:45:53 Tom Trottier: iBird is .... for the birds 00:49:51 Tom Trottier: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Shizuku&c=apps 00:58:08 Tom Trottier: Or you can start a Digital Diet and not access any internet on vacation... 00:58:40 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Sun, Sand & Staying Safe Online (webinar) https://www.staysafeonline.org/events/sun-sand-staying-safe-online 00:59:59 E O'Driscoll: Alan: I forgot how you knew which file you needed to copy over to the new phone. 01:00:28 E O'Driscoll: What was the error message? Sorry if it is in last week's deck. 01:01:27 jenn faubert: how did you know you had to tap it 7 times to get access 01:02:02 Stew Bruce: Replying to "how did you know you..." That is the standard for many years 01:02:45 Tom Trottier: Replying to "how did you know you..." But if you tap 3x, you get a magnifying glass.... 01:03:01 Steve Parker: Replying to "how did you know you..." or Alan has too much time on his hands 01:03:03 E O'Driscoll: It looks like perplexity.ai gave you the correct info. That's good. 01:03:29 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Perplexity.ai is amazing. 01:03:36 E O'Driscoll: Tapping 7 times reminds me of that old song...tap 3 times on the ceiling. Crazy. 01:04:26 Tom Trottier: Authors have..............authority! 01:04:43 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: DON'T FORGET!!!! If you want to come to the annual Pizza Party at the June 11th meeting, you MUST register by email at pizzaparty@opcug.ca. Tell us if you are bringing guests and how many, your pizza preference (e.g. combo, special, meat lover, vegetarian, gluten free, etc.), and if you need a ride or can offer a ride. Details at https://opcug.ca/events/annual-pizza-night/?occurrence=2025-06-11 01:04:51 Jocelyn Doire: You might have already said it, but why iBird need to store the data into a protected area, why not in a generic folder? 01:06:23 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): @Jocelyn That folder used to be public. Android has updated their policies and this is now a protected folder requiring root permission. 01:06:46 Jocelyn Doire: ok, thanks 01:07:02 Tom Trottier: He should be committed/////// 01:07:40 Jocelyn Doire: Yahoo! :) 01:07:43 Tom Trottier: I want Elvis Costello! 01:08:24 Tom Trottier: That Stinksd! 01:08:54 Eldon Gaw: I wasn't planning to come....until I heard about the NEW Performer line up... How could I miss the songbird of the year! 01:09:19 Natalie: Great PR for the party!! 😄 01:09:27 Tom Trottier: Is good weather guaranteed? 01:10:08 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "Is good weather guar..." If not, at least we have cover! 01:10:35 Jocelyn Doire: Rain or Shine the event is on! 01:10:43 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: OPCUG presentations at the OPL https://biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/program?text=pc+users 01:10:58 Tom Trottier: Chris is a font of wisdom 01:13:21 Serge-Érik: Thanks everyone! 01:13:30 E O'Driscoll: Challenging info tonight...excellent. Thanks to all. 01:13:32 Natalie: Thanks! 01:13:35 Carol Pearson: Thanks everyone! 01:13:36 jenn faubert: thx