Fix Your Own Tech
Like Duolingo, but for Fix Your Own Tech. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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Key ideas in Fix Your Own Tech
- Sleep mode preserves the current state
- Restarting forces a clean reload
- Why a restart resolves glitches that sleep mode cannot
- Restarting clears RAM
- Sleep mode keeps clutter
- The different effects of power states on system resources
- Restarts don't 'fix' broken code; they simply stop the stuck process and start it over correctly
- A 'clean slate' allows the device to bypass temporary errors that accumulated during use
- Changing multiple variables makes it impossible to identify the actual root cause
- Troubleshooting should move from the simplest physical checks to more complex software fixes
- Isolating variables prevents unnecessary future repairs or replacements
- Testing the connection (cable) happens after confirming the hardware has power
- Hardware failures usually manifest as a total lack of power or physical response
- If a device works elsewhere, the issue is likely the specific connection or port used
- Applying the 'one change at a time' rule to a real-world scenario
- The logical sequence of narrowing down a vague problem through elimination
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Fix Your Own Tech the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What happens to a device's internal instructions when you choose to 'Restart'?
Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.
Where Fix Your Own Tech takes you
Stop feeling helpless when your gadgets act up. Learn the universal logic of troubleshooting to fix common digital headaches and take control of your devices.
- 1
Solve Problems Like a Pro
- The Magic of Turning it Off and On
- Finding the Source of the Trouble
- How to Search for Fixes Online
- Safe Ways to Click and Explore
- 2
Make Your Devices Run Better
- Cleaning Up Your Digital Clutter
- Speeding Up a Slow Computer
- Managing Your Battery Life
- Keeping Your Software Up to Date
- Strengthening Your Home Wi-Fi
- Spotting Scams and Bad Links
- 3
Understand How It All Works
- How the Internet Travels to You
- Where Your Files Actually Live
- What Different Cables Really Do
3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Fix Your Own Tech is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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