Apologies from Christine, Jo & Paul, Jeanne & Mick, Kate, Jen, Jonathan, David Hughes, Tony and Sianed.
We welcome Iain King to his first meeting.
Thanks to Phil for his presentation on his visit to Bletchley Park.
I then went through a variety of “interesting” items that I’d put up on Flipboard, highlighting the ones on Meta introducing a possible subscription model to avoid sanctions from the EU on data sharing; an article from Which? on printer ink; useful things you can do with a smart plug; and how to keep your iPhone safe from thieves.
Before we adjourned to The Gatekeeper for a Christmas drink, we had a quick run round the room for issues.
Anne still hadn’t found a solution to her McAfee in Spanish language problem.
Phil enquired how many members had a screen protector on their phones, and whether they had been installed in-store, or not. Quite a few members had and they reported that they worked well.
Sheila requested a reminder on how SIM Locks worked and were set up. I’ll add a Topic to the Hardware and Software Forum.
Jenny reported that she was shortly leaving Cardiff to return to London, but was having email problems that we talked through with her.
Iain enquired whether he (as a Windows 10) should upgrade to Windows 11, or not. I said that it was a very personal decision, that might be guided by how old his PC was. As Microsoft are still supporting that version of Windows it was not as pressing as earlier versions.
Yvonne had an iPhone 8 – I think she was enquiring whether it should now be replaced. Well … if you can afford it, yes; otherwise if it’s still doing all you require then, no. But gradually some apps will stop being supported and you’ll need to consider replacing it.