Volume 28, Issue 11
Prez Says for November 2024
Welcome to November, the month of Election Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, and Black Friday. Please remind your adult children and grandchildren to vote. I hope you and your family have an enjoyable Thanksgiving Holiday.
On November 5th, we will have our Tech Corner and General Meeting in person at the North Bellevue Community Center and via Zoom. Our General Meeting program will be "Is Your Car Spying on You? " presented by Dale Harrington. A car (and its app, if you installed one on your phone) can collect all sorts of data in the background without you realizing it. This, in turn, may be shared for various purposes, including advertising and risk assessment for insurance companies. The data collection list is long and depends on the car's make, model, and trim. But if you look through any car maker's privacy policy, you'll see some trends. Dale will talk about what types of data may be shared with, among others, dealers, repair companies, emergency services, advertising, and insurance companies.
Do you have questions about one of your computer devices or software? Join us in-person or via Zoom at 6:00 PM on November 5th for our Technology Corner led by Andy Peck. November’s topics are AI Hiring, Voice Banking, Spinrite 6.1, Meta Smart Glasses, and Minimal Phone.
If you want to learn more about Linux, visit Steve Herber at our Linux Special Interest Group hybrid meeting (in-person and Zoom combined) starting at 6:30 PM on November 12th. Bring your Linux laptop to the Linux SIG. The Linux Group also has a build-your-own server project Zoom meeting at 7:00 PM on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of October.
You are invited to attend the Digital Imaging Special Interest Group Meeting via Zoom with Sally Ann at 7:00 PM on Tuesday evening, November 26th. November’s topic is Spooky Stuff and Halloween,.
To keep up with technology, visit https://www.techforsenior.com to learn about their Monday morning meetings (9:00 AM PT), their Newsletter, and their Facebook page.
Be sure to download all security updates on all of your devices.
Please consider joining us at the North Bellevue Community Center for our November meetings.
I will be doing some traveling in November and December, thus I may miss some in-person KEGS meetings.
We still need a space to store and sort items for our Auction; a garage that holds cars that can be moved out for one half day in June would be great.
We welcome visitors! Please encourage your friends to join KEGS, the Linux SIG, or the Digital imaging SIG.
I look forward to seeing you soon.
