00:09:55 Crhis 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 00:16:03 Crhis Taylor, President OPCUG: Avoiding malware https://www.pcworld.com/article/2896812/i-havent-gotten-pc-malware-in-a-decade-here-are-my-7-simple-secrets.html 00:17:37 Tom Trottier: Why trust a VPN? Maybe Proton.... 00:20:07 Tom Trottier: I don't trust smart devices. I do live in a small apt, so hardly necessary. I do keep my BluRay player & TV on my Guest network. 00:20:37 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): @Tom Want to do a share on Proton? 00:20:42 Tom Trottier: WeMo NoMore 00:20:44 Timothy: Speaking of e-waste, there is a "recycle your electronics" at the Walter Baker rec Centre in Barrhaven this weekend. 00:21:23 Tom Trottier: I don't use Proton, just know they have secure email and now a VPN 00:22:45 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): @Anybody Use Proton? Want to do a share for us? 00:23:51 Bob Herres: Reacted to "@Anybody Use Proton..." with ❤️ 00:24:11 Steve Parker: Best person to ask to do a presentation on Proton would be Mike Ungerman of the Central Florida Computer Society 00:24:36 Tom Trottier: 2.4ghz good for distance. 5,6 good for bandwidth 00:24:58 Allison: I have Proton VPN but only the free version that I use when I want to show as being in another country. With the free version, it choses the country. I think you can chose with a paid version. I would do a share if I knew more about it but I literally open it and click connect and that's it. 00:26:07 Tom Trottier: Maybe when I am old and disabled I will set up lots of smart stuff. But I will keep them on the Guest Network so they can't become a trojan horse in my main network. 00:26:57 Crhis Taylor, President OPCUG: Belkin drops the ball (Wemo) https://www.pcworld.com/article/2845719/belkin-essentially-waves-goodbye-to-its-wemo-smart-home-brand.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/2846584/your-belkin-wemo-smart-home-devices-will-die-soon-here-are-great-alternatives.html Kasa smartplugs https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07RCNB2L3 00:27:01 Crhis Taylor, President OPCUG: LibreOffice vs Microsoft: The Document War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgxhn3bCD58 00:27:05 Enid: Alan, will you be talking about Win 10 end of life? What should I do with mycomputer? 00:27:27 Bob Herres: Reacted to "LibreOffice vs Micro..." with 👍 00:27:33 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Belkin drops the bal..." with ❤️ 00:27:36 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Belkin drops the bal..." with 👍 00:27:52 Steve Parker: @Tom Trottier is your TV on guest network? 00:28:06 Tom Trottier: Yes 00:28:13 Bob Herres: Replying to "Belkin drops the bal..." Awesome Wemo sounds Cool & Useful! 00:28:38 Tom Trottier: Latex is super for math papers. 00:28:54 Crhis Taylor, President OPCUG: MikTex - https://miktex.org/ 00:29:56 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Replying to "Alan, will you be ta..." I gave this presentation last Wednesday so it's on the club's website. But, I am alos giving it over Zoom for OPL on Monday, Sep 22. Registration with the library required in order to get the Zoom link. Details on our website OPCUG@OPL menu item. 00:34:36 Steve Parker: Does Latex know the difference between an acronym and an initialism? 00:34:55 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): What is an initialism? 00:36:13 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): an abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately (e.g., CPU ). 00:36:36 jenn faubert: how long did it take you to learn the software? 00:36:57 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): I would think that Latex will handle this as an acronym (but I will ask Stephane) 00:38:14 Steve Parker: Acronyms are initialisms that can be pronounced, ie. SCUBA. If it can't be pronounced, it's an initialism ie. KVM. 00:41:18 Tom Trottier: There is some similarity to Wikipedia documents.... 00:43:51 Tom Trottier: FWIW, Word, & I presume others, can also string files together, eg chapters, to make a whole document. 00:48:11 Tom Trottier: Did you have to use all English commands to create your French document? 00:53:07 Bob Herres: Thank you Stephane! This is truly a very organized system! 👍 00:54:04 Stew Bruce: Would you say this is better than using some form of AI assistant? 00:56:00 Tom Trottier: Use an AI to create the LaTex! 00:57:09 Crhis Taylor, President OPCUG: What happens to my waste https://ottawa.ca/en/garbage-and-recycling/waste-reduction-and-education 00:57:45 Crhis Taylor, President OPCUG: Love food, hate waste https://lovefoodhatewaste.ca/ 01:01:07 Harvey Hope: Rather than Windows Update, I only use Microsoft Windows 11 Installation Assistant. 01:02:49 Crhis Taylor, President OPCUG: Reinstalling Windows https://www.voutube.com/watch?v=am0O6GpB7qI https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-installation-media-for-windows-99a58364-8c02-206f-aa6f-40c3b507420d https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10 01:07:31 Crhis Taylor, President OPCUG: That's correct re: keeping only Store apps 01:11:42 Crhis Taylor, President OPCUG: Consumer Reports on Windows 10 https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/CR-Windows-transition-letter-9.16.25.pdf 01:18:06 Gail Eagen (OPCUG Secretary): Thanks! 01:18:21 Bill: Thanks everyone 01:18:28 Allison: Thank you. 01:18:29 Timothy: Great presentations tonight. 01:18:37 Bea: thanks