Thank you so much. Your knowledge is valuable to someone like me, at least!
I would assume the only thing I have exposed is Plex, since that's the only thing I access outside of my home. I got the backups down pat now (through learning the hard way, unfortunately..). I use MFA for everything that offers it. I never use the same password for anything.
Seems like my trepidation for online stuff has helped me some in this case. I will definitely be checking out the w3schools, so thank you so much for providing that link!
All in all, your words have helped me today at the least, so I very much appreciate you taking your time to respond and help educate me. It means more than you will probably ever know. I don't have tech people in my life, and have never had that. I'm the only one in any group I interact with that has any slight interest in technology. I learn best when it is under someone who knows what they are talking about or at the very least can provide ways to explain things.
Anyway, again, sincerely, thank you!
When it comes to documentation, at least for myself when I'm learning new things, I like to look at it like a recipe book.
The book shouldn't contain just the ingredients and what the final product looks like. It needs to be more in depth than that. It needs to contain the ingredients that go into it, how much of those ingredients, the time to cook, what consistency to look for, prep time, etc.
There are plenty of people out there who have never cooked before, and a recipe book/instructions on how to cook a favorite dish is the perfect way to share your love of the craft and the dish that you made. Then, with your recipe as a guideline, people could change it to suit their tastes, and so on and so on.
That's just how I look at it. I wish I could interpret developer instructions and write up a more user friendly documentation for them. I would love to be able to give back to the community in some more meaningful way than just barely knowing what the developer is providing and using it and making a mess of it my first few tries until I learn from my mistakes.