6 must-watch shows to stream before the 2026 Emmys
How-To Geekby Dan Girolamo·10 Sept 2026
Television’s highest honors will be awarded to several shows at the 2026 Primetime Emmys. HBO led the field with 122 total nominations, including nominations at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards...
There's a tiny computer hiding in most USB-C cables (and it isn't always used for good)
How-To Geekby Arol Wright·10 Sept 2026
Two USB-C cables can look identical, cost wildly different amounts, and behave nothing alike. The reason sits inside the connector housing: a chip that talks to your devices before any power moves.
These 5 legendary free, open-source apps are better than their expensive paid alternatives
How-To Geekby Dibakar Ghosh·10 Sept 2026
Conventional wisdom says that if something costs money, it's probably better than a free alternative.
My Android notifications kept arriving late—these settings were the problem
How-To Geekby Ismar Hrnjicevic·10 Sept 2026
I've had problems with Android notifications arriving late for years. Usually, it's not a huge deal—if someone needs me urgently, they'll just call instead of texting me.
The 60-year-old Unix design choice that made the Linux desktop a mess
How-To Geekby David Delony·10 Sept 2026
One reason that Linux has struggled to gain desktop users is the perception that the Linux desktop is a mess. Apps look too different from each other, and command-line elitists rule the system.
I deployed these 2 monitoring tools in my homelab and haven't lost sleep about failures since (September 11 - 13)
How-To Geekby Patrick Campanale·10 Sept 2026
As we march toward fall, it's time to start thinking about tidying up the homelab and making it a bit safer and more secure.
Android's private DNS feature solves a problem most people don't know they have
How-To Geekby Bertel King·10 Sept 2026
If you care about protecting your privacy online, you've probably seen an ad for VPNs. You likely also know to seek out private messaging apps like Signal and Proton Mail.
These cheap mini PCs have built-in backup batteries (also, they're not mini PCs)
How-To Geekby Monica J. White·10 Sept 2026
What's the easiest and cheapest way to build your own budget homelab? Arguably, a used Windows 10 PC is a safe bet (most of the time).
Stop paying for Claude and ChatGPT — NVIDIA is offering free models that’re just as good
How-To Geekby Dibakar Ghosh·10 Sept 2026
Claude and ChatGPT are where most of us started with AI, and once you discover what they can do, it’s only natural to put them to work beyond the chat window.
It's now very easy to switch password managers on Android!
How-To Geekby Jon Fingas·10 Sept 2026
It can be painful to change password managers on your phone, not to mention insecure — you might have to download files that expose your passwords in plain text, and recreate all your passkeys.
OsmAnd's offline maps put Google Maps to shame—here's why
How-To Geekby Joe Fedewa·10 Sept 2026
It’s no secret that offline maps are one of the best features of Google Maps. That doesn’t mean it’s the best overall, though.
I ditched Ubuntu for a Linux distro that fits in 200MB, and I'm not going back
How-To Geekby Nick Lewis·10 Sept 2026
Linux is famously smaller and lighter than Windows, but that understates just how small Linux distros can really be.
5 tiny 3D prints that solved annoyances I had simply learned to live with
How-To Geekby Tim Brookes·10 Sept 2026
Are you putting up with pesky household problems? The ones you’ve almost forgotten about, but that make a massive difference to your quality of life when they’re finally fixed?
Your router's fastest Ethernet port might be sabotaging your NAS
How-To Geekby Monica J. White·10 Sept 2026
If you have a multi-gig NAS, one of the most obvious (and yet, somehow, still easy to miss) network bottlenecks is plugging it into a gigabit network.
5 new shows to watch this weekend across Netflix, Hulu, and more (September 11-13)
How-To Geekby Dan Girolamo·10 Sept 2026
What a difference a few weeks make for the state of television. During the final days of August, it was a struggle to find new and returning shows debuting on streaming services.
I built a private AI document search engine my wife and I can use from any device at home
How-To Geekby Rich Hein·10 Sept 2026
Paperwork used to be annoying, but at least there was an obvious place to put it. You bought a filing cabinet, labeled a few folders, and hoped you could remember where you filed something when you...
Home Assistant unlocks these 7 unusual 3D printer tricks that most owners never try
How-To Geekby Tim Brookes·10 Sept 2026
I added my Bambu Lab 3D printer to Home Assistant as soon as I realized I could, but it wasn’t until after doing so that I realized what I’d been missing out on.
Your smart TV is spying on you with three letters you’ve never even heard of
How-To Geekby Sydney Butler·10 Sept 2026
At this point, you're probably pretty used to the idea that your smartphone tracks what you do and shares that information with various companies.
After a month with the Pixel 11—these are the 4 things not enough people are talking about
How-To Geekby Cory Gunther·10 Sept 2026
The first 24 hours with a new device are always exciting as you set things up and check out new features. But it's after using it for several weeks that you start to find the hidden gems.
4 ways to turn an aging smart TV into your home automation hub
How-To Geekby Sydney Butler·10 Sept 2026
Smart TVs have been around for a while at this point, which means there's a good chance that there's an aging TV somewhere in your home that doesn't have the smarts to be a TV anymore.
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