Thin devices are finally worth the hype—and it took an eReader to prove it
How-To Geekby Bertel King·6 Sept 2026
When I first saw the crazy thing iPhone Air and Galaxy Edge, I wasn't interested. I had never cared when companies boasted about how many millimeters they had shaved off a device.
3 open-source virtual desktop tools that make Windows’s built-in feature look outdated
How-To Geekby Sydney Butler·6 Sept 2026
Windows 11 has a robust virtual desktop feature, but it is rather basic. It probably doesn't help that Microsoft only built its own virtual desktop solution long after Linux and macOS had shown us...
Android's built-in features finally replaced these 4 apps I've been using for years
How-To Geekby Sanya Shah·5 Sept 2026
We’ve all come across those “must-have apps for Android” lists somewhere. But this article is a little different.
Don't buy a used Raspberry Pi until you understand these 4 "gotchas"
How-To Geekby Nick Lewis·5 Sept 2026
Memory price hikes have pushed new Raspberry Pi prices up across the board and the secondhand market has started looking more appealing than it has in years.
I turned Jellyfin into a virtual video store, and now movie night is actually fun again
How-To Geekby Adam Davidson·5 Sept 2026
I love Jellyfin; it allows me to stream my entire movie and TV show collection across multiple devices.
I didn’t expect Dell’s entry-level XPS 13 to feel this premium
How-To Geekby Patrick Campanale·5 Sept 2026
I’ll admit, I’m not sure what I was expecting when I first opened up the box for the latest Dell XPS 13 laptop. However, I know for sure I wasn’t expecting to love this tiny laptop as much as I do.
VLC tries to do everything, Windows Media Player does nothing—this third app is the perfect middle ground
How-To Geekby Sydney Butler·5 Sept 2026
How often do you play local media files on your PC? These days, most of what we watch comes from a cloud server viewed through a web browser.
The 5 best foldable phones of all time (in the U.S.), ranked
How-To Geekby Bertel King·5 Sept 2026
I converted to a foldable Android phone a couple of years ago, and I've used them for nearly everything ever since.
You don’t need to code or spend money to improve KDE—here are 7 ways to help
How-To Geekby Bobby Jack·5 Sept 2026
Open-source software is wonderful: it's free, diverse, and surprisingly accessible. You might feel that software development is a secret world of privilege and insider knowledge, but OSS has made...
3 Home Assistant projects to repurpose old hardware this weekend (Sep 4-6)
How-To Geekby Adam Davidson·5 Sept 2026
Tech prices are going through the roof, with the high cost of RAM affecting everything from Raspberry Pis to high-end gaming PCs.
Your Plex server doesn't need 70TB: Why hoarding 4K remuxes is a massive storage trap
How-To Geekby Patrick Campanale·5 Sept 2026
I’ve been running a Plex server for a long time, which means I’ve made my fair share of amateur mistakes.
How one bold move from Intel wiped an entire company off the map
How-To Geekby Monica J. White·5 Sept 2026
These days, when you're buying an x86 CPU, you're buying Intel or AMD. (Probably AMD, actually, as even used Ryzen 5000 chips are a good deal right now.)
The 4 best Paramount+ thrillers to watch this long weekend (September 4-7)
How-To Geekby Derek Malcolm·5 Sept 2026
With Labor Day landing on the 7th this year, this weekend comes with a bonus Monday with absolutely no obligation to do a dang thing with, other than watch movies.
I stopped using Claude to process sensitive files and switched to a local model instead
How-To Geekby Nick Lewis·5 Sept 2026
Every time you upload a file to a cloud AI service, you trust that they'll be responsible stewards of that information.
I stopped texting my ETA while driving after discovering this Google Maps feature
How-To Geekby Jorge A. Aguilar·5 Sept 2026
Most people know texting while driving is dangerous, but they do it anyway. There is so much peer pressure to be considerate of those waiting for you, but the law is pretty clear.
I discovered KDE’s hidden superpowers after installing these 3 open-source utilities
How-To Geekby Zunaid Ali·5 Sept 2026
If you've been in the Linux space for a while, you know just how customizable KDE Plasma can be. However, a lot of us only limit that customization to picking the theme or moving the panel.
I started building automations I expected to fail and my smart home became far more reliable
How-To Geekby Adam Davidson·5 Sept 2026
Home Assistant is incredibly powerful, but all that complexity means things can and do go wrong. I was tired of one of my most useful automations failing, so I decided to rewrite the automation...
Ultra-slim SSDs and RTX Spark laptops: How-To Geek's favorite tech of IFA 2026
How-To Geekby Tim Brookes·5 Sept 2026
Another year, another IFA conference. How-To Geek is scouring the halls of Messe Berlin to uncover all the new innovative tech at IFA 2026.
Seen a Samsung tablet lately? It's like buying a PC
How-To Geekby Bertel King·5 Sept 2026
If you walk into a big box store and look at Samsung tablets, you may be surprised to see that they almost feel more like picking up a Microsoft Surface than an iPad.
This Robot Lawn Mower Might Change Everything.
How-To Geekby Jon Fingas·5 Sept 2026
It's easy to think of robot lawn mowers as robotic vacuums for grass, but Sunseeker wants you to think of them as much, much more important than that.
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