Jack How does one become computer savvy?
By asking questions like you're doing now, and doing a lot of reading. Google a basic question (like "how do I secure my computer?") and then keep researching deeper and deeper until the answers start to make sense. And then when you have a more complicated question, repeat.
In other words, being computer savvy isn't really "knowing the answer." It's knowing how to find the answer -- learning how to learn. Pretend you're a 5-year-old and just keep asking "why?"
The main thing is to have the right attitude (which it seems you do) and not use "but I'm not computer savvy" as an excuse to be helpless.
Just looking through my previous post, someone might want to Google any of the following:
- What is KeePass?
- What is a portable app?
- What is cloud storage?
- What is a cache?
- What is browser profile?
- What is browser cookie?
- What is browser fingerprinting? (Or "how do I defend against browser fingerprinting?")
- What is CRSF attack? (I don't know the answer to this, except for being able to guess from context. And that's okay! Nobody knows everything.)
- What is Disconnect?
- What is a browsing session?
- What is keylogger?
- How do I backup my computer?
- What is Debian?
- What is a package manager repository?
It also doesn't hurt to just read about computers in general, even when you don't have a specific question. Slashdot, Reddit, TomsHardware, AnandTech, and lots of other sites are good choices for this. Just do like you do for MMM, except for computers.