00:11:06 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Welcome to all members and guests! Want to join the OPCUG? - 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 00:17:03 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: PatchMyPC Home Updater https://patchmypc.com/product/home-updater 00:21:35 Tom Trottier: https://theintelligence.com/37756/best-adblockers-to-replace-ublock-origin/ 00:21:44 Raymond: Manifest V3 was designed to prevent unlock origin, by removing an essential permission. 00:21:56 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replacing uBlock Origin https://theintelligence.com/37756/best-adblockers-to-replace-ublock-origin/ 00:22:09 Steve Parker: uBlock Origin still works on my Firefox 00:23:50 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: ToffeeShare https://toffeeshare.com SendThisFile https://sendthisfile.com WeTransfer https://wetransfer.com/ SendAnywhere https://send-anywhere.com LocalSend https://localsend.org/ https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20240501_PowerPoint.pdf 00:23:53 Jocelyn Doire: clicking the back and forward button when starting a YouTube video will generally stop the ad and go to the video 00:24:19 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Thanks Joc. I will try that! 00:24:29 Tom Trottier: Reacted to "uBlock Origin still ..." with πŸ‘πŸΌ 00:24:44 Stew Bruce: Reacted to "clicking the back an..." with πŸ‘ 00:24:59 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "clicking the back an..." Do you know if the same trick works in ads that appear in the middle of a video playing? 00:25:26 Carol Pearson: dont video files have different formats? 00:25:26 Bob Herres: Reacted to "clicking the back an..." with ❀️ 00:25:40 Steve Parker: gmail will put the file on Google drive automatically 00:25:55 Jocelyn Doire: the trick works only at the beginning a video 00:26:59 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "dont video files hav..." Yes, there are many formats supported, but YouTube will insert ads in all of them 00:27:09 Steve Parker: use https://send-anywhere.com/ to file share directly 00:27:32 Carol Pearson: Replying to "dont video files hav..." I was thinking about the file transfer 00:28:21 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "dont video files hav..." oops πŸ˜„ too many topics 00:29:02 Steve Parker: Team Viewer works too. I usually send 10GB+ files 00:29:56 Jocelyn Doire: I usually use Google drive or Google photo to share files or pictures, emailing just the link 00:30:25 Steve Parker: If it was 100% secure, you wouldn't be able to use it either 00:31:01 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "If it was 100% secur..." 🀣 00:31:19 Serge-Γ‰rik: I usually use free SwissTransfer (50 GB - No registration) https://www.swisstransfer.com/en-ca 00:33:08 Tom Trottier: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/introducing-firefox-send-providing-free-file-transfers-while-keeping-your-personal-information-private/ 00:36:09 Stew Bruce: I used to share large video files (movies) with a friend by mailing a micro sd card via lettermail with a forever stamp. CP often failed to postmark the stamp as used and it could be removed and pasted onto another envelope to return the card. 00:37:25 Natalie: Do you get a notice when the file has been received on the other end? 00:37:49 Tom Trottier: To drop ads on Youtube try https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/enhancer-for-youtube/ponfpcnoihfmfllpaingbgckeeldkhle 00:38:44 Serge-Γ‰rik: Another option is to split the file to email it (GSplit: This is a free file splitter that allows you to split large files into smaller pieces. It supports various splitting modes, including by size or number of pieces. GSplit also creates a self-uniting executable that can be used by recipients to reassemble the file without needing the original software. https://www.gdgsoft.com/gsplit.) 00:38:54 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "To drop ads on Youtu..." Thanks Tom! I will give it a try. 00:39:17 Tom Trottier: Thanks Jeff! 00:40:53 Tom Trottier: You could always us Google's 15GB with a new ID 00:42:42 Natalie: Thanks Jeff. 00:43:25 Tom Trottier: Or WhatsApp - https://mashtips.com/send-large-files-on-whatsapp/ 00:44:01 Natalie: I got a notice from DuckDuckGo to use their player in order to avoid YouTube ads. 00:44:11 E O'Driscoll: Great info Jeff! 00:44:36 Tom Trottier: WhatsApp lets you share videos up to 16 MB and documents up to 2GB of file size. - so change the extension! 00:44:45 Jocelyn Doire: Youtube enhancer has stopped blocking ads after an update 00:44:54 Tom Trottier: :-( 00:46:15 Eldon Gaw: If I'm not mistaken I think sometimes Gmail will simply make a link of a large file which can be opened either by the only person you are sending it to, or anyone with the link.. I don't know exactly how that works but it does. 00:50:30 Tom Trottier: the tree begged to be spared, but the lumberjack said, "you were born a tree, but you will dialog" 00:50:51 Jocelyn Doire: lol 00:50:55 Stew Bruce: Replying to "the tree begged to b..." Saw that coming.... 00:51:34 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "the tree begged to b..." πŸ˜„ 00:52:24 Jocelyn Doire: I much prefer zoom over team 00:52:27 Harvey Hope: Teams should run after clicking the link to the meeting. 00:52:38 Carol Pearson: google meets has a time I think 1 hour too 00:52:54 Tom Trottier: Zoom free video limit is 45 minutes 00:53:17 Jocelyn Doire: how good is google meets relative to zoom? 00:53:26 Carol Pearson: zoom you can right back in after time ends, inconventent 00:55:17 Tom Trottier: https://nerdschalk.com/video-call-duration-participants-limit/ 00:56:11 Tom Trottier: (2020) 00:56:56 Lynda Buske: Might want to give Teams another try. I used it today with my bank manager (zoom has been banned by Scotiabank) 00:57:19 Stew Bruce: I don't use Skype but a lot of folk I know use the phone call & the txt msging more than the video calling, 00:57:21 Steve Parker: would facetime work if started with an iPhone? 00:57:44 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "would facetime work ..." My understanding is that should work 00:57:57 Tom Trottier: WhatsApp free, unlimited, 32 participants 00:58:09 Tom Trottier: https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/whatsapp-video-calls-now-support-32-participants-screen-sharing-and-speaker-spotlight-71718344366895.html 00:58:30 Timothy: Right now we have 43 people on-line. If we were using TrueConf then 3 people would not be on. 00:59:32 Ed Morawski: yes, there's a PC desktop version but it really runs off your phone that has Whatsapp 01:01:23 Eldon Gaw: I use whatsap a lot love it. use it in both my PC and my phone and yes I had a phone call today from El Salvadore 01:01:58 Tom Trottier: https://meet.jit.si/ https://trueconf.com/products/online/video-conferencing-service.html https://www.freeconference.com/ https://meethour.io/products/video-conference/free 01:04:33 John F.: Edge AI suggests Poptox, Globfone and Textnow as replacements for skype for phone calls 01:06:43 Natalie: MSN article about how to export Skype contacts, messages, and files: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/when-is-skype-shutting-down-what-to-know-and-do-before-it-closes/ar-AA1AaROP 01:07:05 Natalie: Thanks for the extra info about ToffeeShare! 01:07:53 Steve Parker: Has anyone heard of or tried Bazzite? 01:09:20 Jeff Dubois: Replying to "Do you get a notice ..." Yes. :-) 01:09:46 Tom Trottier: WhatsApp also supports screen sharing https://onlytech.com/whatsapp-announces-new-video-calling-features/ 01:10:30 Stew Bruce: Bazzite rings a bell but that may be just me... 01:11:25 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "Bazzite rings a bell..." We'll just call you Quazimoto (sp) 01:11:57 Stew Bruce: Replying to "Bazzite rings a bell..." πŸ˜„ 01:14:49 Jocelyn Doire: spelling error on slide, should be Duolingo 01:15:35 Bob Herres: Thank you everyone Great Content!πŸ’—βœ… 01:15:38 Natalie: Thanks! 01:15:38 Serge-Γ‰rik: Thanks everyone! 01:15:49 Carol Pearson: Thank you 01:15:51 E O'Driscoll: Great session tonight! Thanks all. 01:15:54 Jeff Dubois: Night everyone. Have a good night. 01:15:59 Rosemary: Thanks for a wonderful meeting! 01:16:10 Timothy: thanks everyone.