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General Discussion / Alan Raul - April 6, 2025 Meeting Notes
« Last post by Alan J. Raul on Today at 09:58:48 AM »
YouTube brings its more affordable ?Premium Lite? subscription to the US - Priced at $7.99 per month, Premium Lite will rid your YouTube experience of ads when watching ?most? videos.
https://www.theverge.com/news/624598/youtube-premium-lite-announced-us
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=youtube+premium+light&iar=news&ia=news

New Windows 11 trick lets you bypass Microsoft Account requirement
start ms-cxh:localonly
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=start+ms-cxh%3Alocalonly&t=h_&start=1&iar=news
 
No, No One Is Forcing You to Buy a New Machine
https://youtu.be/g1BzpPXCLHU
 
Patch My PC Home Updater - Easily Install and Update Apps on Your Home PC
https://patchmypc.com/product/home-updater

Revo Uninstaller Free
https://www.revouninstaller.com/products/revo-uninstaller-free/
 
Save 20% on Pacific Surfliner Midweek Travel
https://www.amtrak.com/pacific-surfliner-spring-midweek-sale

4K Dash Cam, Built-in GPS Front 4K & Rear 1080P Dash Camera with 64GB Memory Card, UHD 3" IPS 170? Wide Angle Dual Car Dash Cam Front and Rear, Night Vision, Parking Monitor, WDR (Black）
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFR1VY4?th=1

ASUS DriverHub - automatically detects your PC configuration and provides personalized system support and driver updates for your ASUS hardware. Download and install the software to access customized driver and software updates for your ASUS devices.
https://driverhub.asus.com/en
 
Armoury Crate - is a unified interface that lets you configure and control your ASUS and ROG devices and features. Sync Aura Sync-enabled devices, create lighting effects, switch scenarios, access game deals and rewards, and more.
https://rog.asus.com/us/content/armoury-crate/
 
Apple Silicon Explained in 56 Seconds
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OltS40EjSxk
 
Using Ambient Music On Your iPhone
https://youtu.be/aiZ5dnMDTiE
 
Apple Ecosystem Hacks You NEED to Know!
https://youtu.be/HoA2iidMKBc
 
Elevation Lab TagVault AirTag Camera - The Hidden AirTag Tripod Plate | Low-Profile, Security Screw, Arca-Swiss Geometry | for DSLR's & Mirrorless Cameras
https://www.elevationlab.com/products/tagvault-camera
https://www.amazon.com/TagVault-Camera-Arca-Swiss-Mirrorless-Elevation/dp/B0C3SXV1SQ?th=1
 
Helium Design Lab He3 Handgrip for Leica Q3
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65fb84f21b311d1b9b857c19/1719774928717-NGZQB876MXJBV3KDW2WU/image.jpg
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65fb84f21b311d1b9b857c19/1719774882325-VCB7EOE424OJLT28YIOU/image.jpg

Airtag Holder case 2 Pack IPX8 Waterproof Airtag Strap Mount丨 Compatible with Apple Airtag, Ultra-Secure & Hidden design| for Camera Straps,Bags, Backpacks, etc.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CM3MVKQ2?th=1

The San Luis Story - 1938 Travel documentary of the San Luis Obispo County, including Cal Poly campus and aerial shots of the coastline.
https://archive.org/details/cslu_000001
    
Plex Pass is going up in price ? and now you?ll need it for remote playback
https://www.theverge.com/news/632631/plex-subscription-price-increase-remote-playback
 
How to Password Protect an External Hard Drive
https://drivesaversdatarecovery.com/password-protect-external-hard-drive/


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General Discussion / APCUG Free Wednesday Workshop 3/26 Macrium Reflect, Clonezilla and FreeFileSync
« Last post by rsutter on March 24, 2025, 07:52:08 AM »
Hello All,
This is a re-post of an APCUG announcement
Ralph Sutter

March 26, 2025
WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP
9 am PT, 10 am MT, 11 am CT, 12 pm ET
 
FreeFileSync
John Kennedy, Webmaster
East Central Ohio Technology Users Club

Macrium Reflect and Clonezilla
Mike Ungerman, Chairperson
Central Florida Computer Society
 
Register once here ? https://tinyurl.com/375xs62t
 
After you click Submit, you will receive the pop-up acknowledgment of your registration below. On March 25, after registration closes at 6 p.m. Pacific Time, you will receive the encrypted Zoom link.
 
FreeFileSync: The question of whether or not you should back up is no longer open for discussion. The bottom line is that you have to back up. But the method you choose and what you use is up to you. You want something easy to use, gets what you want backed up in a way that makes sense, and it won't hurt if it turns out to be free. One part of the recommended "3 step back up plan" is to have your important files backed up to an external drive. Join John as he shares his program of choice, FreeFileSync, and shows you how easy it is to use. He can back up whatever he wants in whatever way he wants. The process is straightforward: decide what you want backed up, where you want the backup, and what kind of backup you want. John will take you through these steps to set up your plan and then show you how to keep your files up to date using FreeFileSync.
 
Macrium Reflect and Clonezilla: Looking to safeguard your valuable data? Join us for an engaging and informative presentation on image backup solutions featuring Macrium Reflect and Clonezilla. Discover how these free, powerful tools stand out by running directly from a USB flash drive and booting into their self-contained operating systems. Learn how they enable seamless backups for Windows and Linux computers, offering a reliable, versatile solution for all your backup needs. Whether you're a tech enthusiast or looking to protect your system, this session will provide practical insights and hands-on tips to bulletproof your backup strategy. Don't miss this opportunity to level up your data protection skills!
 
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General Discussion / Photo Group Report for 3/16/25
« Last post by rsutter on March 21, 2025, 02:21:28 PM »
Hello All,
Here is my Photo Group Meeting Report for 03/16/2025
TOPIC: Photographer's Choice

Sadly, my dog Andy ate my notes for the session and my memory couldn't recreate the presentations.

What follows is my effort to reconstruct the meeting from Zoom's AI Transcription

Ralph Sutter opened the meeting with a discussion of his latest toy, the Harvest Right Freeze Dryer.
Unlike dehydrators, freeze dryers remove water from food by sublimation in which H2O passes directly from solid to gas without a liquid state.
Sutter shared images of freeze-dried tangerines, sourdough starter and eggs. He also showed egg rolls created with a Sushi Bazooka

Alan Raul, using his Leica Q3 camera, displayed beach shots mixed with scenes from the San Luis Obispo Masonic Temple, Pismo and Shell Beaches

Stanford Brown reached into his photo archives, offered travel photos of Lake Louise, a king's palace in Thailand
He also provided numerous images of his daily walks along the Salinas River in Paso Robles, fascinated by gnarly trees and photogenic animals.

John Waller also showed a preference for dea trees, mixed with eerie cloud formations and a Chinees Wedding.

Kaye Raul presented several of her photographs, discussing her editing process in Lightroom, including blurring backgrounds and converting images to black and white. T The group discussed the photos, commenting on subjects such as horses, bulls, trees, and landscapes, with some debate about the merits of color versus black and white images.

The topic for the April 13th 2025 meeting will be Images of Spring
Here are the meeting dates for 2025
  May 18 (May 11 is Mothers' Day)
  June 8
  July 13
  August 10
  September 14
  October 12
  November 9
  December 14

See the Links page; https://www.slobytes.org/digital/links.html, for tutorials and other resources

Ralph Sutter
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General Discussion / Re: RAM keeps filling up causing very sluggish browser response.
« Last post by Alan J. Raul on March 18, 2025, 10:20:31 PM »
May I suggest downloading and running Microsoft Sysinternals Autoruns. This app is a single exe and does not install. Autoruns shows which apps startup when Windows boots up.

You can uncheck questionable startup apps. If you determine that malware is starting up you can delete them. Be careful if you decide to delete a startup app. It's best to uncheck it first.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns
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General Discussion / LEARNING LINUX WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP March 19, 2025 9 am PT, 10 am MT, 11 am CT,
« Last post by rsutter on March 17, 2025, 10:42:40 AM »
Hello All,
This is a re-post of an article that I received from APCUG
Ralph Sutter

LEARNING LINUX WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP
March 19, 2025
9 am PT, 10 am MT, 11 am CT, 12 pm ET
 
Backing Up Personal Files on Your Home Network
Les Larkin, Program Chair
Lake Area Computer Enthusiasts

Foxclone and Back In Time
Alan German, Meeting Coordinator
Ottawa PCUG
 
Timeshift and Gnome Disk Utility (or Disks)
John Kennedy, Linux Help Desk
East Central Ohio Technology Users Club
 
Register here ? https://tinyurl.com/2tv6uvch
 
After you click Submit, you will receive a pop-up acknowledgment of your registration (see below). You only need to register once. On March 18, after registration closes at 6 pm Pacific Time, you will receive the encrypted Zoom link. You only need to register once.
 
 Backing Up Personal Files on Your Home Network. Linux makes it very easy to back up your files to other devices on your home network. Les? presentation shows WHY and HOW to back up files on your home network using Rsync and OpenSSH.

Foxclone and Back In Time. One backup strategy for Linux systems is to make full disk image backups of the entire hard drive at regular intervals to facilitate rapid system recovery should this become necessary. However, this needs to be combined with frequent backups of data files, the contents of which typically change over short time frames. This presentation will focus on two software products that provide the capabilities for the specified tasks and which, while being simple to use, have proven to be robust in their application.

Timeshift and Gnome Disk Utility (or Disks) ? Timeshift for Linux is an application that provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature on Windows and the Time Machine tool on macOS. Timeshift protects your system by taking incremental file system snapshots at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored later to undo all system changes. You can easily create an image backup of your hard drive using the Gnome Disk Utility, or Disks as it?s called on many distros.
 
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General Discussion / Pointers on setting up Windows 11.
« Last post by Doug on March 14, 2025, 11:51:45 PM »
Ed Bott of ZDNet.com article: 6 things I always do after setting up Windows 11 - and why you should too.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/6-things-i-always-do-after-setting-up-windows-11-and-why-you-should-too/
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General Discussion / Re: RAM keeps filling up causing very sluggish browser response.
« Last post by Doug on March 13, 2025, 11:55:20 AM »
I have countered this problem by loading up all the programs I anticipate using during a session immediately after booting up, before the unidentified cause gradually takes up 95% of the RAM. The computer works fairly well this way. I am still trying to nail the cause for the RAM hogging. Perhaps it is OneDrive, or possibly even malware. I noticed that the amount of RAM taken up is about 16GB, which is the maximum capacity on the Dell computer. My HP computer has 32G of RAM and it loads up around 16GB also. I will eventually figure out what program is overloading the RAM on the Dell computer.
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General Discussion / RAM keeps filling up causing very sluggish browser response.
« Last post by Doug on March 10, 2025, 08:30:05 PM »
Advice requested.

My Dell computer is loading RAM to the point of causing my browsers to have a sluggish performance.

I have brought up the resource manager showing where it starts upon booting up and where it ends up twenty minutes later.

I have run the MS Defender Antivirus (offline scan) and RAM still loads up to the maximum. 

I am still looking for whatever program is loading all this into RAM.

I think it is other than Windows Defender.

Any tips?

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General Discussion / APCUG Free Wednesday Webinars - Online Safety 3-12-25
« Last post by rsutter on March 10, 2025, 09:02:14 AM »
Hello All,
This is a re-post of an announcement from APCUG
Ralph Sutter

March 12, 2025
WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP
9 am PT, 10 am MT, 11 am CT, 12 pm ET
 
Learn more about staying safe online
with Gema de las Heras and Alvaro Puig
FTC Consumer Education Specialists
 
Whoa, back up!
Effective strategies for keeping your computer files safe
with Chris Taylor, President
Ottawa PCUG
 
Register once here ? https://tinyurl.com/fnx6684x
 
After you click Submit, you will receive the pop-up acknowledgment of your registration below. On March 11, after registration closes at 6 p.m. Pacific Time, you will receive the encrypted Zoom link.
 
 
Learn more about staying safe online. Get specific advice to help you recognize the signs of a scam and practical ways to protect yourself and your information (including how to protect your network, devices, and personal information). FTC staff will also share free consumer protection resources to use and share, as well as where to report fraud.
 
Whoa, back up! Effective strategies for keeping your computer files safe. Think about all the data on your PC: videos of the grandkids playing in a park, photos of your trip to Patagonia (lucky you!), tax records, emails? Now, think about whether those files exist anywhere else. If the answer is no, you need to think about backup.
 
You could lose data due to viruses, fire, theft, tornado, hard disk failure, making an unintended change to a file, or a wayward finger deleting a file.
 
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General Discussion / The best smartwatches you can buy: Expert tested - ZDNet.
« Last post by Doug on March 04, 2025, 11:02:54 AM »
The best smartwatches you can buy: Expert tested - ZDNet

https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-smartwatch/
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