How's it going guys I'm ThioJoe and today's video should be pretty straightforward
It's gonna be ten different "rules" that you should follow
Anytime you're using a computer or you might find yourself coming up against a bunch of different problems
And so it should be pretty helpful. Maybe you've heard some of these before. I know a couple of them
I beaten in to ya' plenty of times, but it's always good for a refresher. So let's get started
First up, this one's extremely important and I know you guys have heard it before but I also know that many of you probably
Still haven't followed it
So I'm gonna beat it in to ya' even further and that is always backup and ideally use off-site backup
So if you're not backing up at all
You're just setting yourself up for trouble. If you have at least an external hard drive or something, that's even better
But if you get your home broken into you have a fire or flood or something like that
Then that backup might be gone just as much as the main computer
So ideally you have some sort of cloud backup. These services are not very expensive stuff like Backblaze
Carbonite these things are like 50 bucks a year
And then it's all unlimited backup on to the cloud and then you don't have to worry about anything
so off-site backup super ideal and at least some sort of backup or else you're just
Really stupid to be honest next up number two. This one has to do with Wi-Fi and that is beware public Wi-Fi hotspots
Now this isn't going to be as much of an issue once WPA3 type security comes out
Which is probably going to be over in the next couple years
But as of now always be suspicious and ideally don't use public Wi-Fi hotspots at all
And that's because most of your data has to be sent in the clear
unencrypted so anyone around you can intercept
Everything that's going between you and that Wi-Fi hotspot
Now there's of course extra encryption on some websites
They use HTTPS so you're not completely screwed
But I would never use a public Wi-Fi hotspot
unless you absolutely had to and if you do have to then always use something like a
VPN which will encrypt all your traffic and at least protect you in that respect
Number three another one that probably most people are not doing out of convenience and that is use unique
Passwords on every single website. No, seriously every single website if you need me to explain this again
The reason is if you use the same password on every single website all it takes is one of those
Websites to have their database breached and stolen and then they're going to have hackers
That are literally going to sell that database online and you're gonna have a whole bunch of different hacker groups
Literally using bots trying out all the different email and password
Combinations that they just bought in that fresh new stolen database and they're gonna try it on all sorts of different websites
Including like email websites or bank websites
And if you are using the same account on your forum some random forum as you are on your bank
Well, they're gonna obviously go for that weak forum. Get all the data they need and get into any other higher security website
So just don't do it. You want to have unique things on every single site so you're not exposed
All right, next up number four. This one's pretty obvious and that is updates are your friend
They may seem annoying when Windows tries to update automatically, but everybody knows if they didn't kind of force you to update
Maybe you never would and the reason you need to keep things up to date is because it's literally
keeping
99% of all the hacking opportunities that hackers use at bay because without updates you're gonna have
Exploits that hackers can use to literally hack into your computer through your web browser or whatever
Even if you don't do anything
They're using an exploit so they can take advantage of the software no matter what
Security conscious knowledge you have if you're the safest website user ever
But that web browser has an exploit or that operating system has an exploit they can take advantage of it
You're still gonna get hacked unless you keep things up to date and kind of relate to that quick
One number five guys use an antivirus you really do need one and that's just kind of like a last
Defense in case there is some sort of exploit and antivirus especially one with Internet Security will be able to block
Attempts often times before they even come into contact with the computer
You may think you don't need antivirus, but that's the state of modern security
You have to worry about the things that you aren't doing yourself and instead worry about things that the operating system isn't defending you from.
Alright number six I'm gonna call this one a rule because it is something that I think
everyone should use and that is the nightlight mode that is now built into basically every single
Operating system mobile and desktop. So if you're not familiar
nightlight mode or on
IPhones called a night shift. This is basically a feature that allows you to
Filter out the blue light at night
so in Windows
you can go into the settings if you search for night light mode or night mode and
You can set it to automatically turn on at night. It'll dim the screen so it doesn't keep you awake on iphone
This is also a feature it's called night shift as I said on Android. It's called nightlight, I believe and on Mac
It's the same night shift mode. So every operating system you're using has this built right in if you're using
Desktop and you want something a little bit more robust. I would highly suggest
F.lux, it's a great program. Does the same thing you might have a little bit more control over it?
I almost guarantee
You will have a lot better sleep and you won't be kept up all night
If that's a problem you have just from staring at the computer and it's kind of funny after you use this you won't even notice
This shift after a while, but if you turn it off, it's gonna be like blinding your face
It's kind of funny and you'll realize: "God, how was I using a computer so late in the night without this?"
Alright, so moving on number seven. This one's more of a common-sense rule and that is really on the internet
You'll always have to be suspicious of everything at all times
There's so much stuff out there. That isn't even necessarily a virus
It's just like junk
That you have to watch out for that might be advertised and it doesn't even work
Try just trying to take your money and it's a garbage product
so always any time you see something that is telling you to do this or that even
Perhaps this video always do like a Google search and verify things to say
search the product name scam or
product name reviews and
Always look at multiple review sites. I mean this is probably pretty common sense, but especially on the Internet
There's so many avenues for just junk out there that you really have to verify things several times over and yes
of course that does include things especially like pop-ups. If you get a pop up saying
Oh, you have a virus through your internet browser
That should send up a red flag that yeah, that's not supposed to happen. Usually the operating system is not going to tell you
Oh, you have a virus? It's gonna be like your
Windows Defender software or whatever antivirus you have so just be vigilant and I encourage you anytime you are unsure of something
Google it and see what the problem is. You might be surprised by how much information is out there about stuff that you have
No idea what it is. Anyway, moving on to number eight. This is pretty much a universal
Misconception and that is people just kind of accept that their computer is going to get slow over time
And I'm here to tell you that if your computer gets slow over the course of several years and isn't running as fast as it
Was it's because it's full of crap. It's because you installed a lot of stuff you don't use anymore
You have a lot of startup programs that are now running in the background
even if you can't see them there's services so you can absolutely
get your computer running like new if you go into the task manager and you go to the startup settings and
You remove things that are starting up that you know
You're not using or if you have someone who knows how to do a reformat of your computer
I would not recommend doing that by yourself. If you don't know what it is. You're basically wiping the hard drive
So if you have someone that knows how to do that
You might have to go to a computer store and they'll charge you money. But if you are just saying oh my computer slow
I have to buy a new one. That's not necessarily true
Another great thing you could do is buy an SSD and I can almost guarantee you
SSDs will keep your computer running like new for way longer because
Even if you do load it up with crap, then it does not really affect performance
Whereas a hard drive it gets fragmented, you fill it up with crap
It has to search through the whole hard drive and it's full a bunch of nonsense
You probably understand that already
But there is ways to get your computer running you just to understand that of course that's beyond the scope of this video
You'll just have to look that up
I've made other videos about that in the past that you can find. Now number nine this one kind of ties into several ones
I've already talked about and that is if you have a computer problem if you come up against an error message that you've don't understand,
Don't just throw your hands up and say I don't know how to fix it. I don't know what this is
Google it. I always guarantee you that almost any error message
You ever come across you can google it and there will at least be someone else posting
What does this error message mean if there's not a dedicated article on some website about how to fix that error message?
So google it that is 99% of what tech support people do if you weren't aware
that's like the dirty secret in IT is
They're just googling it themselves
so you can save yourself a lot of time a lot of effort and
waiting on support tickets if you just do Google search this error and that code or
even what it says if it's meaningless to you it might mean something very
Significant and the good thing is there might be people who had this error message five years ago and on the forum
They solved it and now you can get it without having to call up tech support or whatever
All right. Now finally number 10. This is one I would consider a golden rule of the internet
You may have heard me mention this one before and this is particularly for people who
Post a lot on social media they tend to complain
They post a lot of comment section and they just kind of like to share their opinion
And that is the golden rule of the internet. Remember this one? No one cares
You need to understand this no one cares about your problems
As much as you, so you can interpret this a lot of ways you might interpret this
Ah, ha ha very funny number 10, or you could say hmm, maybe
No one really does care and I should solve my problems for myself
instead of putting them on other people and complaining you can really interpret this a
Lot of ways and that's why I would consider it a golden rule and it really is a golden rule and that's something I tell
A lot of people if they complain to me about something that they don't like that I did I tell them I don't care
Okay
and you shouldn't care what other people say and complain to you about and this is especially so on the Internet because
You cannot possibly
care about the billion other people on the internet and
if you did, you would literally go crazy. And the reason I wanted to make this rule is because it does seem like these days
People do care what other people on the internet think and it's just not healthy. So that's gonna be my number ten
So hopefully you guys did find these rules helpful
And I know a lot of these are just kind of refreshers, but it's always good to get
Refreshers on these rules because they are pretty much essential
So if you guys have your own rules of the internet and rules of the computer, let us know down in the comments
I'm sure there are some good ones that will certainly be helpful
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Of new videos every week. So thanks so much for watching guys. I'll see you next time. Have a good one