howtogeek.comadded August 2026
How-To Geekby David Delony26 Aug 2026
Of all the Linux commands, rm is notorious. It's easy to completely wipe out your system with one mislaid rm command as root. I knew not to, but I ran that command on purpose anyway. Here's why.
How-To Geekby Dan Girolamo26 Aug 2026
First, you watched a series of great movies on Paramount+ with runtimes under two hours. Now, we're cutting that runtime to 90 minutes or less, meaning this list is for people who are strapped for...
How-To Geekby Graeme Peacock26 Aug 2026
Brave is doing what Mozilla won't. Mozilla hasn't innovated in years. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of waiting. I have limited options, yet Brave ticks the right boxes.
How-To Geekby Jorge A. Aguilar26 Aug 2026
Charging a phone should be boring. You plug it in, it charges, you move on. When that stops working reliably on a Samsung, the usual instinct is to swap cables, restart the phone, and wait to see...
How-To Geekby Jon Fingas26 Aug 2026
Ring is at last addressing some of its longstanding privacy issues by limiting its access to your security camera videos.
How-To Geekby Jorge A. Aguilar26 Aug 2026
Too many people treat Ethernet cables like an afterthought. You use whatever cable is included with your router, or you buy a random Ethernet cable off of Amazon without verifying whether it...
How-To Geekby Cory Gunther26 Aug 2026
In typical Milwaukee fashion, your favorite cordless power tool brand just unveiled several exciting new tools that are still coming later this year.
How-To Geekby Sydney Butler26 Aug 2026
It's been over 20 years since I had to compile a Linux kernel, and that's because the boxed copy of Red Hat Linux someone gifted me wasn't going to work with my PC back then without adding stuff...
How-To Geekby Adam Davidson26 Aug 2026
My movie collection has been through many iterations. It started life on VHS, then moved to DVD, before I ripped all those DVDs so that I could stream them using Jellyfin.
How-To Geekby Tim Brookes26 Aug 2026
The most useful smart home sensors perform routine tasks like measuring temperature and humidity or detecting sudden movements.
How-To Geekby Sydney Butler26 Aug 2026
I grew up with cell phones that didn't really care if you dropped them several times a day, so I just never got the desire to put phones in cases.
How-To Geekby Cory Gunther26 Aug 2026
I've bought a lot of cordless power tools over the years that have come and gone, but one has remained: this trusty old blue Ryobi drill.
How-To Geekby Adam Davidson26 Aug 2026
If you have kids, you'll know how too much screen time can seem to affect your kids' mood and behavior.
How-To Geekby Joe Fedewa26 Aug 2026
Google Pixel phones are not exactly renowned for having a huge selection of features—the downside to minimalism.
How-To Geekby Nick Lewis26 Aug 2026
I stopped using portable applications for a long time. Between cloud storage, web apps, modern package managers, and the ever-growing number of regular apps you can download and install, they just...
How-To Geekby Carl Anthony26 Aug 2026
An over-the-air, or OTA, update is any software fix or feature update an automaker sends to a car wirelessly, through a cellular or Wi-Fi connection, the same way a phone downloads a new app or...
How-To Geekby Monica J. White26 Aug 2026
The PC market is a hot mess right now, with GPUs priced at up to $5,000 and 32GB of RAM going for, at minimum, $400 (DDR5). It's not a good time to buy ...
How-To Geekby Sydney Butler26 Aug 2026
While I like messing around in Linux, it's not my daily-driver operating system. I tend to use it for specialized projects, or when I have no other choice, such as using a Linux Netbook in college...
How-To Geekby Joe Fedewa26 Aug 2026
Cable management is not a fun task. I’m not talking about routing cables under your desk in a satisfying way; I mean literally organizing a box of loose cables. Rubber bands? Velcro straps?
How-To Geekby Zunaid Ali26 Aug 2026
As a writer, programmer, and Linux enthusiast, I often tend to make my workflow use the mouse as rarely as possible.
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