How-To Geek

In today’s car market, $20,000 doesn’t get you a ton. Spend that much, and you’re usually looking at a Kia Soul, Hyundai Venue, or Nissan Sentra—solid cars, but hardly what you’d call luxury.

The topic of the ongoing RAM-pocalypse has been done to death. Yes, we get it, RAM is expensive.

Adventure-ready midsize SUVs are often associated with rugged all-wheel drive and outdoorsy branding, but there’s a Japanese-designed contender that deserves just as much attention, even if its name doesn’t carry the usual off-road cachet. While many buyers automatically think of familiar all-terrain badges, this model brings genuine capability and a comfortable highway ride to the table, making it as adept at back-road exploration as it is at daily driving.

If you were a developer, scientist, engineer, computer engineer, or even a college student in the 1980s and early 1990s, you would have spent a lot of time in front of a Unix machine. Here are some reasons that it might have been like living in the future, given how workstations pioneered many computing features we take for granted.

Managing a photo library is easy when it’s just yours. It got a lot harder for me when I also became responsible for keeping photos organized for my wife and mother-in-law. Different habits, different expectations, and everyone still wants their pictures to be easy to find and safely backed up. Over time, that turns into a messy sprawl of folders, duplicates, and “where did that photo go?” conversations.

Some time ago, I wrote about how my Windows computer doesn't really feel like mine anymore, and that all the changes in modern Windows seem to work against my best interests as a paying customer, compared to macOS and Linux.

Have you ever tried to plug your Roku into an HDMI port, only to wish you had an HDMI extender because it blocked an adjacent port or just didn’t fit right? Roku will actually give you a completely free HDMI extender, and it’s easier than you might think to claim it.

Despite the polar temperatures in some parts of the country, Paramount+ is coming in hot this week with a lineup of movies I can get behind.

A major barrier for Linux adoption might finally be breaking down because a community developer has successfully patched Wine to run Adobe Creative Cloud installers. This means you can now install specific versions of Adobe Photoshop directly on Linux systems.

After a weekend of binge-watching a series or two, I like to slow things down for the week with a good movie or two. Netflix offers the deepest well out there, but who wants to spend 30 minutes hunting for something to watch?

Node.js 25.4.0, the newest Current branch release, is now available for download. This update focuses on transitioning many performance and debugging features out of experimental status and marking them as stable. So, this update is great for large, high-performance applications.

For years, PC builders have followed the “classic” airflow setup: pulling cool air in from the front (and sometimes the bottom), while rear and top fans push hot air out. But what if we’ve been doing it wrong all along, and a single top fan could be the reason your CPU is overheating and underperforming?

Luxury SUVs usually come with premium price tags, but in 2026 one Japanese-built model defies that trend by landing among the most affordable options in its class. While many rivals charge tens of thousands more for comparable refinement and features, this SUV delivers a genuinely upscale experience without the typical luxury price premium.

Termux is an incredibly powerful terminal emulator for Android. I previously showed you how to use it to download any media file, convert files, or ssh into another device. However, that barely scratched the surface. Here are even more awesome things you can do with a terminal window on your phone.

Google Calendar is making a significant change for anyone who manages shared schedules or secondary calendars. Google is forcing all owned secondary calendars to remain visible in your settings list, replacing the old ability to simply unsubscribe or toggle them off.

Solid State Drives (SSDs) seem to come with so many rules and caveats. Don't make them too hot, don't write too much to them, and don't fill them up all the way,

Mozilla has officially introduced a dedicated .rpm package for Firefox Nightly, making it simpler for users on RPM-based Linux distributions like Fedora and openSUSE to install and keep the browser updated. Linux users can now test the cutting edge of Firefox development much more easily.

The Bugatti Tourbillon is one of the most beautiful cars in the world. The name, a tribute to a watchmaking innovation from the early 1800s, is fitting. It’s the effects of time that Bugatti understands well. One of the cars that inspired the Tourbillon, the “La Voiture Noire” Type 57 SC Atlantic, was lost to time after the tragic death of young Jean Bugatti in 1939.

For many people, a desktop PC is more than just a functional device. PC building has become a fine art in some circles, and in the pursuit of the perfect PC build, some enthusiasts have resorted to a mild kind of fakery, in the form of "dummy" RAM.

Compact SUVs remain one of the most competitive segments in 2026, and a handful of models are redefining what value really means. With new-car prices continuing to climb, buyers are demanding vehicles that deliver practicality, comfort, and modern tech, all without sacrificing affordability. These standout compact SUVs prove you don’t have to overspend to get a well-rounded package.