My security method is extremely effective and I do not consider it to be nonsense.
FIRST OFF, I apologize for saying
"nonsense" that word didn't accurately describe what I was trying to say, I genuinely don't mean to belittle your efforts. I'm as impressed as I am just very wanting folks like yourself to see the light in how simple personal endpoint security actually is. I havent been compromised in over a decade and I don't do a tenth of what you're doing because it isn't necessarily needed. However, it being a personal decision and it being effective security wise, not necessarily productivity wise, doesn't make it wrong or ineffective.
It is really the simplest security one could have.
I would say this is an opinion and not a fact because again, there is strong security you can obtain with much less effort. There will always be residual risk, you can never get rid of residual risk. There's a certain amount of residual risk the average consumer can afford to live with. Its very hard to keep minimizing residual risk without adding unnecessary tasks to the process and daily use of the machine.
Having antivirus scanners hogging resources and worrying about having the latest antivirus updates sounds like more of a pain to me. Obviously, you will disagree with me, given that your livelihood depends on computer security being so complex that it requires a specialist like yourself.
You are right, AV is trash and a hog. But I do disagree overall because AV is not the only answer. It doesn't take being a specialist to know about the very popular consumer product
Malwarebytes. Malwarebytes is arguably the most robust, powerful, and resource spared EDRs there is. I have favored this, as many have, for years because there is virtually no impact on high performance applications when this thing is in full swing. It also offers outstanding browser protection and even has outstanding anti rootkit abilities.
It seems like every month you hear about a large computer system being hacked and its data either stolen or held for ransom. I think most of this could be avoided if measures were taken to minimize access to data and more intelligently written web browsers were developed.
Not exactly. Most attacks are perpetrated via Social Engineering, more specifically, SE > Email Phishing. I spend almost as much time teaching associates at my company about preventing social engineering and phishing attempts. One of many REF:
HERE "The most common way that a business will encounter the full rogue’s gallery of cyberattack threats like ransomware or business email compromise attacks is through a phishing email that makes its way past email security and into an employee inbox"
People need to be connected to do things, especially in the work environment. You are very correct in the way that you treat your PC like a wide open door to your digital world and network bc it is. Incidentally, in order to use a computer to its potential, or in the average daily life, it has to be usable, accessible, and accessible the LAN. This is why everything going on locally should be the last line of defense. The first line of defense is actually the human themselves and the way they navigate their machine on a daily basis. I'll use me as an example again. The reason I haven't been compromised in over a decade is simply because I know what to and not to do. IMO there is no such thing as an accident when using your computer. You can learn what to do, and what not to do, and what not to risk, very easily. Again, you will never be able to avoid residual risk, but once one realizes they aren't that special and its highly unlikely someone is ever going to go out of their way to target them, almost all of ones personal computer and LAN security can come purely from personal decisions while navigating your electronics on a daily basis.
I don't disagree with you about IoT, I look at them more as bonus features one is willing to run risk with. Thanks to Amazon for confirming that to us when they auto-enrolled everyone in their current experiment where your Amazon devices now emit and accessible AP for people around your home to freely connect to and gain data throughput.
However, this is sort of a different topic than my previous post, so I rather not combine it. Maybe, I should have waited for some one else to insert a post in between. 
