/tech/ - Soyence and Technology

Hi 'teens, here's my situation. I'm going off to college soon and will have multiple roommates, each of which will probably bring in guests sometimes. Also living in off-campus housing, so I might be able to bring my PC too and just use my laptop for school. I have an external drive, and I'm going to try and move everything chuddy onto that so it's not straight on my laptop.
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I probably won't get anything stolen, but if I do, I want to make sure nobody finds out how chuddy I am and especially does not see my 'arty folders. The college has literally zero right-wingers. It's actually been in the news for normie conservatives being attacked on campus a few times.
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What's the best simple encryption method to go with? At worst I'd probably only be dealing with tech-illiterate immigrants stealing my shit, I just want them to get 'gated from seeing anything. Should I encrypt my whole external drive? For my PC and laptop (both Windows), can or should I just encrypt specific folders? Thanks.