We were much depleted this week with only nine members attending. Owen was facilitating as David was away on a break.
In lieu of meeting notes from last time, we moved swiftly on to a round-screen chat.
Sianed reported that she now had a new iPad (9th generation) to replace her old one which was now no longer receiving updates and therefore not of much use for her online activities.
She had also updated per PC to Windows 11 but found it to be running more slowly, with a noticeably longer boot-time. Jim chipped in to say that his upgraded PC was actually running better under Windows 11 and recommended that Sianed implement any updates and see if that helped.
Paul related a prospective battle with TalkTalk over increased charges an we had a discussion of just how they arrived at both increases and the figures upon which they were actually based. A new branch of mathematics perhaps…
Jim is still pursuing the perfect image catalogue without any duplicates…
Ralph was interested in our discussion but felt unable to contribute at this time.
Don had downloaded Norton Anti Virus as it came packaged with his BT broadband offering. He had had some issues with browser extensions but felt he was now OK. He had also implemented a password manager.
Jim referred us to an article which said basically what has been raised before, that Windows Defender was adequate and that paid-for anti-virus should not be necessary on top of it… but as Don said, it was free to him at present.
We also discussed the efforts Don was undertaking in making grant applications for his church, which involved considerable downloading, loading into Word, editing and re-uploading. He was also waiting for a new iPhone and planned to use it for the Signal group.
Mario found his latest monthly meeting Zooming plagued by screen freeze and on investigation had discovered very poor connection speeds for downloads. We queried the age of his router and Paul suggested a battle with TalkTalk to see if upgrading was feasible for him.
John talked about his iPhone photography and also that he was experiencing startup issues with his Dell PC. He is considering Windows 11 as well and was referred to the Microsoft site for the PC Health Check software.
Fred has speed issues too and was interested in the discussions that had preceded him.
Owen demonstrated the current state of the web redevelopment project using WordPress.
We closed at around 3pm with Owen indicating that next time (28th April) Ted Richards would be leading on the use of ancestry software.