00:04:23 Tom Trottier: https://ottawa.weatherstats.ca/ 00:12:42 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 00:18:25 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Have I been Pwned https://haveibeenpwned.com/ 00:20:02 Ed: Was she not invited to the wedding? *grins* 00:22:48 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Microsoft Proved Linus Torvalds Right - Again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziJbl7_MioU 00:23:39 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: OPCUG Google Groups "how to" https://opcug.ca/google-groups-how-to/ 00:24:14 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Microsoft extends "Extended Security Updates" https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updates?r=1 https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20250716_PowerPoint.pdf https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20250723_PowerPoint.pdf https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20251001_PowerPoint.pdf https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20251015_PowerPoint.pdf 00:25:48 E O'Driscoll: Planning on buying a house in the Ottawa area? Check out the topographical map to see if you're downstream, like Beaverbrook, Glencairn, Crystal Beach: https://en-ca.topographic-map.com/map-sfpqb3/Ottawa/ 00:27:09 Ma Vo: Microsoft Can't Kill Windows 10 CyberCPU Tech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1cpM_B2Az4 00:28:24 Tom Trottier: No need for security upgrades if they built it right the first time. 00:30:09 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: SD cards and phones https://groups.google.com/g/opcug-member-forum/c/pxx20QLFW7o/m/C6763fzuAQAJ What about Windows computers? https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-use-sd-card-for-internal-storage-on-windows High endurance microSD cards https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=dashcam+micro+sd+card+high+endurance https://soaringskyways.com/best-highendurance-sd-cards/ 00:34:10 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Freeing up disk space on an Android phone – Part 2 Junk Cleaner for Android https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/mobile/2026/06/your-phone-called-it-needs-a-cleanup 00:35:00 Tom Trottier: I transfer all my photos to my pixel XL. Then it is saved to my google account forever for free. 00:36:47 Tom Trottier: Good to disable Chrome and install Brave 00:40:25 Natalie: My Samsung Galaxy phone has many apps that can't be uninstalled. Samsung's only response was to not open them. 00:41:44 Tom Trottier: The microSD cards best suited for storing and running phone apps are A2-rated cards, because that performance class is specifically designed for app use and has higher random read/write performance than A1 cards. 00:41:56 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "My Samsung Galaxy phone has many apps that can't be uninstalled. Samsung's only response was to not open them." Samsung is really know for this. It was one of the reasons why I decided to go with a Google Pixel - much less crap installed that I can't remove 00:42:30 Stew Bruce: Replying to "My Samsung Galaxy ph..." With those apps, you can “disable” them and save a bit of space. 00:43:09 Tom Trottier: A1 are the same, but slower. 00:43:14 Natalie: Replying to "My Samsung Galaxy phone has many apps that can't be uninstalled. Samsung's only response was to not open them." Yup, that was my only option. 00:44:50 Tom Trottier: I want a "Do everything" button 00:45:06 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Transcribe audio to text https://thewh1teagle.github.io/vibe/ Kevin Stratvert video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhDf_3K1PFA Webinar recording "Automating Oral History: Best Tools for Transcribing Audio" (may be only available today) https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/automating-oral-history-best-tools-for-transcribing-audio 00:46:19 E O'Driscoll: About the Transcribe audio to text...good timing: I need to transcribe Apple Mpeg4 files this week! 00:48:11 Tom Trottier: On Pixel phones, Recorder will transcribe audio. 00:48:50 Tom Trottier: Youtube now has an AI button to summarize videos 00:49:20 Tom Trottier: https://familytreewebinars.com/ 00:50:51 Tom Trottier: https://notebooklm.google/ 00:51:29 Tom Trottier: You can probably upload audio files to Perplexity to transcribe / translate 00:51:53 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Transfer E-mail contacts from Sympatico to Gmail https://accounts.google.com/ 00:52:16 Kal_Somo DPCUC: Malwarebytes opening screen: I cannot send a screen grab so I'll send the URL. https://www.malwarebytes.com/mobile I am using the free version which serves the purpose of removing " unwanted " files. As well as malicious actors ! 00:53:09 Tom Trottier: My bell email address is VP-IT@Bell.net 00:57:10 Tom Trottier: The Younger Alan 00:57:53 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: If you are on the "Gmail" screen, you can get to "Contacts" from the waffle menu near the top-right 00:59:04 Natalie: Do the contacts remain as is in Symptico? 00:59:51 Tom Trottier: https://www.mailstore.com/en/ 01:00:26 Stew Bruce: Replying to "Do the contacts rema..." Yes 01:03:50 Tom Trottier: addon "Cookie autodelete" can let you manage your cookies 01:03:57 Stew Bruce: Does Firefox have a password manager? 01:04:05 Tom Trottier: Replying to "Does Firefox have a password manager?" yes 01:04:22 Natalie: You can also set the browser to clear all cookies each time you close it. 01:04:49 Ed: Use a unique profile for a specific purpose? 01:05:02 Tom Trottier: FWIW I use Chrome only for google owned sites and bridgebase.com 01:05:25 Tom Trottier: Chrome sends what you do back to the google mothership 01:06:10 Tom Trottier: Firefox has "Containers" which separate cookies from access by other sites 01:10:47 Tom Trottier: One TV series had a dead person recreated as an AI for conversations based on their email and videos 01:11:35 Natalie: I'll post it in the Forum, but here's the link to the CBC Podcast "Understood: Artificial Intimacy" (there are other topics listed as well. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor 01:13:34 Tom Trottier: An independent password manager is probably safer. 01:14:28 Tom Trottier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R13NHqWxZx8 01:14:32 Tom Trottier: compares them 01:17:37 Carol: Thoughts and views about, i.e. experiences with using, Ticktetmaster online? 01:17:42 E O'Driscoll: I reject all cookies if possible. I don't notice a big difference. 01:18:13 Tom Trottier: Cookies can store identifiers that are linked to personal data on the server side, so they affect privacy and tracking; you should assume that any cookie might be part of a profiling or analytics system, especially third‑party cookies. Browser cookies are small text data that a website asks your browser to store and send back with later requests, so the site can “remember” state like logins, preferences, and tracking information between page loads. They typically contain an identifier plus a few attributes (domain, path, expiry, flags), and may indirectly reference much richer data kept on the server. 01:19:52 Tom Trottier: Eventbrite! 01:23:31 Tom Trottier: "cookie autodelete" helps you manage and mangle cookies 01:24:17 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: OPCUG presentations at the OPL https://booking.biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/program?text=ottawa+pc Q&A-Index https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/Q&A-Index.pdf 01:24:20 Natalie: Thanks! 01:25:01 E O'Driscoll: Thanks for the info tonight. I look forward to moving the audio to text (I'm establishing a list of my house contents). 01:25:16 Carol Pearson: Thank you 01:25:25 Deborah: Thank you!