in this video, we want to discuss our 1st steps with tails.
so assuming you've now started up tails, whether that's in a virtual machine or on a desktop or separate computer or your mac or another way, either way, the startup of tails will be very similar across devices.
so let's load up our tails instance.
in this case, we'll be using our virtual machine just to display everything correctly as trying to capture a computer is a little bit more difficult than using a virtual machine.
so let's take a look at those settings now.
when you 1st start of tails, you'll see a screen like this.
you can of course select your language keyboard layout or formats.
if you need separate support for languages, all you do is click on them and you can select the appropriate language or layout or formats.
there's also an option for persistent storage.
this is where you can actually save information on the tails usb stick.
by default, remember, if you use tails and then unplug that usb stick or power it down, everything you do will be lost unless you have this turned on.
so you can do this now if you would like, but we're going to wait to do that until a later video.
and then there are some additional settings here that we can configure.
we can have mac address anonymization, which means it helps anonymize your mac address.
if you don't know what that is, i would suggest reading up on that a bit more.
but this is essentially a unique identifier of your device.
so randomizing it is important.
offline mode if you just want to make sure that networking that networking is off by default to use a browser that's not really locked down compared to tor.
and that way you can get around certain things like captive portals on the network or some other limitations you might have.
and then there's admin password and network connections you can configure as well.
we'll ignore most of this for now as we don't want to mess with too much of the default settings.
all we want to do is start tails and assuming everything is set up correctly, you should see tails launch here in just a moment and you'll see the desktop.
and there we go.
we saw a little warning pop up there for just a moment and i don't think i can bring it back.
but that was warning us that we're in a virtual machine so we can detect that.
and we also see our option to connect with tor.
so that's really the initial tails startup.
the 1st steps are really just click start.
don't change too much.
just go ahead and continue and then you should get to a desktop like this.
now again, it's important to remember that if you were to create a file at this point, let's say you went to the terminal, you know, you looked around.
let's say we go to desktop and let's say we made a file test.
txt.
if we find that here on our desktop, of course it's not in here.
we see it in the command line, but it doesn't actually show on this desktop here.
this would go away.
so if you had a file like this or you had saved passwords, you had email configuration and thunderbird, anything like that is going to go away when you restart tails.
so in the next section, section four, we actually focus all about persistent storage, how to set it up, how to make it secure, how to use it.
it's unlikely that you'll use tails often enough to not need persistent storage.
if you use it often, it's going to be a lot more convenient if you have that storage and you're not resetting stuff up, you're not resetting stuff up every single time.
if you have any questions, of course, let me know.
otherwise, i'll see you in the next one.