I have never been in an office in 30 years that had a Mac server or a serious desktop setup of Macs. They’re toys for wealthy people who don’t understand computers- and this is okay too. I’m just disappointed in Mac because they lied for years and years, saying they were gonna kill Nvidia and make all these amazing graphics cards, and they’re just like Musk when it comes to features, future technological claims, and bragging points that suck in stock money. The entire technological world revolves around high-performance video cards, and Mac does not deliver in this area.
I don’t know, I haven’t had a blue screen of death or an operating system problem that I can’t solve, and I’m not even technically savvy, in at least 10 years; it’s not like I’m getting attacked by viruses. In fact, I’ve never even had a virus or blue screen of death for 15 years. I mean, sure, people can encrypt your information and demand ransoms, but even then, there’s a setting inside of Windows that can stop people with ransomware, and you know, if you don’t want a virus, don’t click on something stupid. I don’t even run antivirus software outside of what comes with Windows.
I think viruses primarily come from emails, when people trick us, so always be VERY sure you know who is sending you something, and use extreme caution when clicking on attachments, PDFs, and links. There are all kinds of fake stuff out there it makes it look like it’s coming from your insurance company or or Amazon. Just simply take your mouse and hover over whoever is sending you an email, and you can see exactly if they’re spoofing and if they’re really hiding behind some fake identity, and you can the exact email address it’s coming from.
I’m sure Linux is great, but it’s like one, one-millionth of the market. I’ve also never seen an office that has even one Linux-based system.
Backup backup backup. Have multiple copies of files. Ask ChatGPT how to diagnose problems. Leverage CC cleaner’s driver update scanning feature. This software can scan your system drivers and look for patches and updates your machine needs. You don’t even have to pay for this software. Just scan your system with the freeware. This software will look at your drivers and it will let you know what driver version you have and it will also let you know what the latest version of the driver is that you should be looking for. What you do is- you go tell chat, Okay, CC cleaner found XYZ driver needs to be updated to a newer version (such as NVIDIA High Definition Audio 1.4.5.0), can you help me with that? And she’ll say sure, this is what you need to do, these are the steps, here’s where you can find the files. I patch my computer every week. Patching Tuesday is the day of the week; set your computer to download automatic updates. Sometimes it takes multiple patches and restarts. Always update your machine. You can also scrub your machine’s Internet browsing history and get rid of all these tracking files that people use on us, and you can just throw all that stuff away, and it saves hard drive space, and it gets rid of all these eavesdroppers. The reason I mentioned this CC cleaner software, is that even when I click on the “Windows Update” button, it doesn’t even detect driver files that I need updating.
Here’s the download for CC.
If you’re using Windows 11, realize that there are additional areas to get updates within the Windows Update settings. When you click on “Check for Updates,” you can also scroll down, click on “Optional Updates”, and click on the plus symbol. You will find feature, quality, and optional driver updates in this location. This is where a lot of NET framework file updates can be found. NET Framework files are the plumbing that lets a huge number of Windows apps run, and I’m of the opinion they need up to be as up-to-date as possible. I was having a hard time upgrading to Windows 11, it kept telling me my machine was not compatible And I asked my brother about it. His first question was, Did you ask ChatGPT about this? I hadn’t.
If you’re tired of commercials on Youtube, this is the best free software in the world they update it for free weekly. Youtube updates their coding weekly, and they tries to interject endless commercials on the YT player. This AdBlock software will also allow you to hold the left mouse button down and run the player at twice the speed. It has block all the commercials forever, and it’s blocked over one million ads for me so far since I’ve been using it (they count them for you). It stops YouTube from peppering your videos with a bunch of poo. AdBlock. Something else I enjoy doing is using the forward and backwards arrows for rewinding and also fast forwarding. Content creators often do sponsor commercialsand they have to do let’s say a 60 second commercial. What you do is you just hit the forward arrow 12 times really fast and you just go right through their sell.
Always put your computer into sleep mode for the night. If you do this, you’ve just decreased the chances of someone being able to attack you by 33% of the time.
Upgrading to Windows 11 from 10 is still free. The best part about Windows 11 is that if you get an outboard microphone like all these Youtube people do for 25-30 bucks, you can actually talk into the microphone and it’s sitting there typing everything I say. It’s a far faster way to be able to communicate with people. The hotkey is control + H for this feature. Another feature I use a lot is that sometimes I accidentally close Google Chrome and if you do control + shift + T, it will bring back your latest session of browsing tabs that were open. I have this one, it’s pricier, but it’s very nice.