Who
- You -- "ordinary" users with willingness to:
- Explore settings on your computers/devices and read articles
-- or if you're not DIY, at least understand the risks/issues, while enlisting your 'techie' friend/relative - Take action: make some immediate changes, and create a plan for later actions
- Avoid procrastination, panic, guilt or information overload
- Ask questions, especially about jargon (or see PC Glossary definitions of Computer and Internet Terms)
Advice Levels / Tags
- [#] prefix on advice/references suggests* experience, importance and/or effort:
- [1] Beginners: some familiarity with system/browser settings; high impact; mostly easy
- [2] Intermediate: more experienced; moderate, some complexity, less common
- [3] Advanced: savvy users, developers, administrators; more complex; special situations; research or future-oriented
- -- or Extreme: dissidents, journalists, whistleblowers, celebrities, lawmakers, lawbreakers, corporations, crytocurrency speculators, paranoids
- *categories are not rigid -- arguably, some items could shift +/-1
- This Chart Shows How Computer Literate Most People Are
Distribution of Computer Skills (none, terrible, poor, medium, strong) Among People Aged 16-65, by country; 12/7/2016