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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 00:17:18 OPCUG Q&A: e-waste event https://ottawatoollibrary.com/events/electronics-recycling-drop-off-otl-open-house/ 00:18:20 OPCUG Q&A: Account Comparison Tool https://itools-ioutils.fcac-acfc.gc.ca/ACT-OCC/SearchFilter-eng.aspx 00:21:40 Tom Trottier: SUper! 00:22:14 OPCUG Q&A: Is Rogers abandoning @rogers.com email addresses https://www.perplexity.ai/search/is-rogers-abandoning-rogers-co-4y5DUqeZQgONcLKgMhdU.Q 00:23:14 Tom Trottier: One email address I have is vp-it@bell.net.... 00:28:02 jenn faubert: proton 1gb 00:28:24 Steve Parker: What is the max email message size on AOL? 00:32:09 Timothy: rogers used @home as email until they switched to yahoo over about 25 years ago. They were paying for home. 00:32:10 OPCUG Q&A: Replying to "What is the max emai..." 25 MB - and that appears to be the encoded size. Binary attachments have to be encoded and are typically about 30% larger than the binary format. 00:34:02 Tom Trottier: Is that an HDMI connection? 00:34:56 Tom Trottier: No problems for me with my laptop RTX 3050 & external monitors 00:38:21 Tom Trottier: Harvey, Did you consider changing the motherboard & CPU instead? 00:49:03 OPCUG Q&A: Proton VPN https://protonvpn.com/ 00:50:01 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Proton VPM gets a rave review from PC Mag... 00:51:20 Stephane: VPN can also created problems with BritsBox and Amazon Prime Video as they will detect that you are using a VPN and do not provide any content, just a cryptic error message, exept for Amazon Prime Video did told me - you may be using a VPN. 00:51:21 Steve Parker: Tim Berners-Lee is the English computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 00:53:13 Tom Trottier: The ghost in the machine.......... 00:53:36 OPCUG Q&A: I have played a bit with TunnelBear. It started as a Canadian firm and was sold to McAfee. You only get 500GB for free (per month) but you can select from many countries. https://www.tunnelbear.com/ 00:54:54 Tom Trottier: You could also set up your own VPN on your home computer and access it when out and about. 00:55:54 Natalie: My paid BitDefender has limited VPN. Co conflict if I use Proton? 00:56:26 Ed Morawski: Proton is a very good service but lately there has been some controversy, with news of movement out of Switzerland: https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/proton-refuses-to-be-held-hostage-by-controversial-swiss-surveillance-law 00:56:28 Darlene: This is really good information Bob. Thank you for your presentation. 00:56:52 Ed Morawski: https://www.webpronews.com/proton-relocates-to-germany-norway-over-swiss-surveillance-laws-2/ 00:57:24 Natalie: Thanks. 00:57:30 Eldon Gaw: great review Bob.. I had been considering Proton for a few weeks now but that is all, "just considering" 00:57:52 Harvey Hope: I have Proton VPN and OpenVPN. But only use one at a time. 00:58:06 Stew Bruce: My VPN use has really dwindled off but the last one I settled on was Proton and it always worked well. 00:58:10 glenm: Do you know how much the Proton VPN reduces the data rate compared to not using a VPN at all? 00:58:20 Bill: If you can use it on an android phone can you use it on a tablet? 00:58:58 Allison: I've been using Proton and really like it, too. Great presentation Bob. 00:59:38 KWG: Using a VPN in enroutes, Rogers wifi in these stations gave me lots of problems when using Nord. Nord wouldn’t connect 01:01:06 OPCUG Q&A: Free software Vivaldi (web browser) https://vivaldi.com Thunderbird E-mail client https://www.thunderbird.net/en-CA/ LibreOffice https://www.libreoffice.org Notepad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org FreeFileSync https://freefilesync.org Everything (local search) https://www.voidtools.com KeePass Password Safe https://keepass.info GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) https://www.gimp.org FastStone Image Viewer https://www.faststone.org 01:01:24 Bill: Thanks Bob, excellent information as usual! 01:04:57 Bob Herres: Everything Search is Fantastic / TY Alan I love this search for stuff on my PC ❤️ 01:05:20 OPCUG Q&A: For KeePass and Android, I use KeePass2Android. Really nice - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2android.keepass2android&hl=en-US 01:06:18 Tom Trottier: I use Irfanview for images, with lots of addons. VG for basic editing 01:06:33 OPCUG Q&A: Are YOU the product? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxFd5xAN4cg 01:06:48 Lynda Buske: Would like to hear more about Everything program. 01:07:25 Harvey Hope: Does anyone use Bitwarden? https://bitwarden.com 01:08:06 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): @Lynda I think I did a brief share on Everything a while ago. I will check! 01:10:15 Tom Trottier: Canadian DNS - https://www.cira.ca/en/canadian-shield/ 01:11:32 Tom Trottier: Also OpenDNS has detailed control 01:12:33 KWG: Maybe I missed it….Why wouldn’t you do this? 01:13:50 KWG: Ah, asked question too soon… 01:14:05 Darlene: I want to understand correctly, would you do DNS configuration instead of having a vpn? 01:14:16 Tom Trottier: Netsetman has multiple setups 01:14:26 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Any other questions??? 01:14:42 Tom Trottier: https://www.netsetman.com/en/freeware 01:16:22 Richard Bradford: Are people using IOT and Home automation OS 01:16:41 Tom Trottier: You can use secure DNS & a VPN. 01:16:51 Rosemary: Thank you for presentations - very helpful information 01:16:58 OPCUG Q&A: I use Google Home devices for home automation 01:17:28 Bill: Thanks everyone. 01:18:08 jenn faubert: how do I get help with converting my old laptop over to linex and upgrading my tower to windows 10 01:18:09 Ed Morawski: very helpful presentations! 01:18:09 Tom Trottier: In my view, a VPN is mostly nice to access location-locked videos. When you use a VPN, you are transferring tracking trust from your ISP to your VPN - and in Canada, ISPs are limited by law (unlike US) from sharing/selling your history. 01:18:10 Stew Bruce: I recently acquired an air conditioner that connects to my wifi. Haven't used it yet . . . 01:19:41 Harvey Hope: Replying to "I recently acquired ..." Chilling! 01:19:45 Eldon Gaw: Hi there, Does anyone else find Libra office Essentially word and tables suddenly crashing? 01:20:19 Tom Trottier: Am still using office 2007....... 01:20:50 Eldon Gaw: Great meeting people!! 01:20:56 Michelle Faber: Have a nice evening 01:21:58 OPCUG Q&A: Additional info: instructions for router configurations some use different IP addresses if you want malware protection etc. Cloudflare: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/ip-addresses/ Google: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using OpenDNS: https://www.opendns.com/setupguide/ Quad9: https://quad9.net/service/service-addresses-and-features/ https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-are-the-most-common-publi-jZgdaTqkQZuxorvWVP2x5A