How-To Geek

There was once a time when you could avoid buying a smart TV, but that’s no longer true. While convenient and packed with streaming apps, smart TVs are also filled with ads and tracking technology that monitors how you use your device, what you watch, and more.

Spend a few minutes with the Genesis G80, and you start thinking about it differently. Suddenly, you’re not comparing it to other midsize sedans—you’re sizing it up against the luxury heavyweights with crazy MSRPs and dealer markups that make your eyes water.

Surge protectors can help protect your electronics from large spikes in voltage caused by weather events, other appliances, and problems with the power grid. While it’s never a bad idea to use a surge protector with your PC, you can ensure better protection by spending a bit more.

Kali Linux, a popular Linux distribution for cybersecurity research and penetration testing, just revealed the Kali Linux 2025.4 release. This new build has updates to GNOME, KDE, and Xfce desktop environments, improvements for virtual machines, and much more.

If you use Safari on your iPhone like a lot of people do, you may be missing out on some super useful features. Safari is highly customizable, from navigation to display, and with a few tweaks, you can have an even better browsing experience.

Watching TV doesn't have to be mindless escapism or low-brow entertainment—you could actually learn something cool and interesting about cool and interesting people! Prime Video might not have the same grip on the streaming documentary genre that Netflix does, but never count it out.

Does your PC run smoothly one moment and suddenly become unresponsive the next? It’s incredibly frustrating—and even worse, there's rarely a single clear cause. The slowdown could stem from software glitches, faulty drivers, overheating, or a mix of several factors. Here are the fixes you can try.

Anime can feel a little intimidating if you're not a diehard fan or if you don't immerse yourself in it every day. Netflix makes it pretty easy to get your feet wet (or dive right in) with the stunning genre, though, and buried among its seemingly endless rows of titles are some incredible stories.

When real life goes off the rails, the stories beat any scripted show or movie on Netflix. And a good documentary or series doesn't just talk at you, it drags you into the room (interrogation or otherwise) with the people at the center of the story, whether it's a true crime caper or behind the scenes with the stars and creators of our favorite movies.

Amazon is finally making a huge, consumer-friendly shift for e-book owners, announcing that you will be able to download your DRM-free Kindle books directly in EPUB and PDF formats. This comes after Amazon has tried for so long to prevent everyone from downloading its books.

The Raspberry Pi’s main claim to fame is being a whole computer on a single circuit board, complete with a capable ARM chip. But its biggest party trick is how expandable it is, with a handy 40-pin general-purpose input/output interface (or GPIO for short).

There was once a time when you could avoid buying a smart TV, but that’s no longer true. While convenient and packed with streaming apps, smart TVs are also filled with ads and tracking technology that monitors how you use your device, what you watch, and more.

Most people assume that deleting files and emptying the Recycle Bin permanently removes them—but that’s not true. Those “deleted” files still sit on your drive and can be restored with recovery tools. So how do you securely erase sensitive data? You can use sDelete, Microsoft’s tool to wipe data.

Android has matured into a pretty great operating system over the years. However, it’s far from perfect. I’ve used every modern mobile operating system as a daily driver, from webOS to Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Android, and iPhone. Here are the things that I think Android needs to copy from mobile operating systems of yesteryear.

Are you ready for more homelab projects to do? Because I know I am! This weekend, set your sights on saving money by canceling subscriptions, supercharging your coding experience, and overhauling your automation workflows.

Are you still using the built-in password manager from Google or Apple? If so, it’s time to leave your old password manager behind and move to something more universal and cross-platform.

If you ever wish that reading the system logs, optimizing music metadata, and checking battery health were easier on Linux, I've got recommendations. With your spare time this weekend, you may find an app that makes your Linux PC just a little bit more powerful.

This weekend on Paramount+ I've decided to mix together three totally different genres in the hopes that at least one of them will spark your interest for a good weekend binge.

If something breaks on a Windows PC in my family or circle of friends, I am usually the one who gets the call. Over the years I have become the default tech support guy, and that means I spend a lot of time hunting down strange errors, slowdowns, and the kind of odd behavior that rarely shows up in Microsoft’s help docs. I have written before about the tools I rely on to fix Windows, including a few standouts from the Sysinternals Suite that have saved me more times than I can count.

I love the array of fresh available content on Amazon Prime Video. This week, I bring you some personally verified gems in a very witty historical comedy, a modern-day dramedy set in Bristol, and one of television’s most bingeable psychological thrillers of this century—you know, the kind that creates the obsession where you’d rather finish a season than stop to sleep.