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VOLUME 32, NUMBER 6 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JUNE 2021 FOUNDED MAY 1989 SOME WEBSITES MEETINGS - SECOND Hackers Used to Be Humans. SATURDAY OF THE MONTH Soon, AIs Will Hack Humanity. An extremely insightful look by Bruce Schneier at AI and hacking. bit.ly/3ooy6hP. Here's What You Can Do FOCUS - THE NEW M1 iMAC A b o u t R a n s o m w a r e . Fascinating story about the Colonial Pipeline attack and the BACKUP STRATEGIES franchising operation of the PMUG's Robert Golding will take us through some of the basic backup Darkside malware. bit.ly/ strategies using Apple’s built-in Time Machine, Cloning using Carbon 3oqdKVD.. Copy Cloner and touch on the on-line backup options. He will Censorship, Surveillance and differentiate Time Machine and Cloning and discuss his backup system Profits: A Hard Bargain for - Time Machine, weekly clones to a Raid Mirror and monthly off-site Apple in China. A disturbing backups. This was been his strategy since 2004 when an “oops” on an read, at least for Chinese iPhoto backup caused some family strife. customers. nyti.ms/3vaN7q4. Robert Golding is a life-long Mercer County resident and majored in 96% of iOS 14.5 users are chemistry at Rider. There he first glimpsed analytical chemistry and the Mac. He joined opting out of ad tracking — Firmenich Inc. in 1998, and has held positions in product development, analytical research, how you can do it, too. Here’s and perfumery technical analysis. He is currently a Scientist in Perfumery Technical your chance, bit.ly/3432HIC. Analysis. Rob worked for Apple from 2000-2006 in retail sales and support. During the How to Prepare Your Digital 2000’s, Rob was PMUG's President, Newsletter Editor, and Vendor Liaison. He lives in the Life for Your Death. Not an Trenton area and is married with two cats and three daughters the oldest of which seems enjoyable topic, but a very to be interested in chemistry, He enjoys amateur astronomy, computer graphics and n e c e s s a r y o n e . A n d v e r y publishing, the occasional strategy game, gardening, and reading. worthwhile. bit.ly/2RytPNb. JUNE “LOCATION” WE WILL MEET VIA ZOOM. GO TO ZOOM.US/DOWNLOAD TO DOWNLOAD THE APP. 1 VOLUME 32, NUMBER 6 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JUNE 2021 CONTENTS Some Websites & March Program Information 1 MLMUG and Newsletter Info 2-4 Bookmarks: Dealing with Evil Emails 5-6 Contributors and Authors and Other Scams Mark Bazrod May 2021 Meeting Minutes 7-8 Josh Centers 2021 Speaker Roster 8 Michael E. Cohen Newsletter Editor 24-inch M1 iMac: How To Pick the Perfect Preorder 9-12 Mark Bazrod How Big Should the Memory and SSD Be in 13-15 Dakotamoons Your Next M1 Mac? Adam C. Engst Copy Editor SSD on Ice 15 Kathy Garges Deane Lappin 2021 Speaker Roster Details 15 Whitson Gordon MLMUG Journal Masthead 6 Ways the New 24-inch M1 iMac Still Falls 16-17 Eric Griffith Frustratingly Short Designed by Dale Fletcher Dan Helyer Apple’s Jaw-Dropping Q2 2021 by the Numbers 18 Based on prior designs by - Macs Only Ian King Marc Robinson, Steve Don’t Store Confidential Files in Online File Sharing 18 Adrian Leung Evans & Bobby Foster The Chip Shortage Keeps Getting Worse. 19-22 Christian de Looper M L M U G J o u r n a l i s published monthly by the Apple AirTag Review: the Best Tracker That Can 23-26 Roman Loyola Leverage Billions of Smart Devices Main Line Macintosh Users Malwarebytes Labs Group and is available Essential Reading for M1 Mac Users 26 Don & Emily Mayer online. It is produced using What Happened When I Switched From Mac 27-31 A p p l e P a g e s w i t h a To Windows Howard Oakley Helvetica Neue font (Same How To Use Split-Screen on a Mac 32-35 Demetrios Pogkas as Yosemite). How To Create an Anonymous Email Account 36-39 Brent Rose How To See Who's on Your Wi-Fi 39-41 Michael Simon Stanford Explains & Helps Prevent Zoom Fatigue 42 The One Reason Your iPhone Needs a VPN 43-44 AI and Humans: Unidentified Swimming Objects 45-46 2 VOLUME 32, NUMBER 6 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JUNE 2021 President, Program Director & Multimedia SIG Co-Chair Membership Information Vendor Liaison Nicholas Iacona Membership dues are $30 for individuals and $40 for Maria O. Arguello [email protected] families. Memberships are based on your anniversary [email protected] Newer Users SIG Co-Chair & date, which is the month you joined. You will be e- Vice President & Multimedia SIG Webmaster mailed reminders when membership fee is due. Co-Chair Bob Barton Larry Campbell [email protected] If you’re just visiting to check us out, or if you’ve [email protected] OS/iOS SIG Chair been visiting for some time, but haven’t joined, Treasurer, Membership & Adam Rice consider these BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP: Facilities Coordinator Elliott Cobin [email protected] • Monthly meetings, where you can learn, share, [email protected] Picnic Coordinator and meet everyone from working Mac Secretary & Newsletter Editor Tony DiPiano professionals to new Mac users from all Mark Bazrod [email protected] backgrounds. [email protected] Raffle Chair • Monthly newsletter, which is full of interesting Educational Liaison Susan Czarnecki Mac news, tips, and information. Linda McNeil [email protected] • Useful free items at the monthly Raffles. [email protected] Social Secretary • Discounts. Vendors offer special prices to User Member-at-Large, Newsletter Gail Montgomery Group members. Copy Editor & Apple User Group [email protected] Ambassador • Web Site with 2-3 years of MLMUG Deane Lappin newsletters, meeting information, a member [email protected] directory, directions to our meetings, and much more! Our web site is www.mlmug.org. • MLMUG Mailing List, to post technical questions or comments to each other and the experts within the group. • Reviewers keep items reviewed. Are you ready to join? Please make a check payable to MLMUG and bring it to a monthly meeting or mail it to: Treasurer, MLMUG P.O. Box 1374 Southeastern, PA 19399 3 VOLUME 32, NUMBER 6 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JUNE 2021 Typical Meeting Agenda MLMUG Email list 9:00 - 9:05: Call to order in main meeting room. The Main Line Macintosh Users Group has its own email list, hosted at Groups.io. Compose 9:05 - 10:15: Q&A Panel - 3 or 4 expert your letter and email it to members will answer your questions [email protected] and your about anything relating to your Mac, message will be sent to everyone iPad, iPhone, iWatch, and any on the mailing list. Contact Bob attached peripherals. Barton ([email protected]) if you New Users SIG are a member and you are not on Questions can relate to the most basic You don’t have to wait a whole the list. items, equipment issues, Apple’s month to get answers to your basic o p e r a t i n g s y s t e m s , a n d a l l Please observe good email Mac questions! Get together with applications, including applications for etiquette. If your message is other members on the fourth photo, video, audio, and print media. humor or not Apple-related (off- Saturday (i.e., two weeks after each Answers are amazingly helpful and topic), please include "Humor" or regular meeting) for the Startup often in depth, exploring the subject "OT" in the subject line. The Folder Lite. beyond the question. Groups.io Terms of Service are at groups.io/static/tos. Look for the Many new users have said that they section on "Conditions of Use" can learn much more from face-to- 10:15 - 10:30: Welcome and other business. face meetings than they do from The MLMUG list may be used to manuals or other sources. That’s post Apple-related items for sale, what this meeting is all about. Go 10:30 - 11:50: Main Presentation (by a but any solicitation of members to www.mlmug.org/nusfl.html for member or guest) through the list is forbidden details. without the written consent of a 11:50 - Noon: Raffles and silent auctions. MLMUG officer. Violation of the Come join some fellow MLMUG members for Groups.io terms of service or lunch after the meeting at a nearby good email etiquette may result restaurant. in removal from the list. 4 VOLUME 32, NUMBER 6 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JUNE 2021 So, before going further, here’s my list of what actions to take to Bookmarks avoid harm, and they apply to email, text messages, and phone Dealing with Evil Emails and calls: 1. NEVER send money (except maybe to a charitable Other Scams organization or political organization to which you have given By Mark Bazrod money to before and know the correct URL of the organization). I read a definition of Phishing as a fraudulent attempt in which a 2. NEVER believe a message that says you have a problem with target or targets are contacted by email, telephone or text your computer, especially if it comes from Microsoft or Apple. message by someone posing as a legitimate institution or person to lure individuals into providing sensitive data such as 3. NEVER believe a message from a government agency asking usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, or other sensitive for money or saying you have a refund coming.