How-To Geek

Netflix's library of hit movies, award-winning TV shows, and unique originals is one of the reasons why the streamer remains so popular. Shows like Suits, which had a successful run on cable TV, exploded in viewership on Netflix. While Netflix would love to keep its licensed programming forever, it's an unrealistic ask, meaning many notable shows eventually leave for other streaming services.

Most operating systems work in the same basic fashion—you install apps from the binaries or an app store, change configuration files as needed, and perform piecewise updates as needed. NixOS changes that approach entirely.

By many measures, GitHub is as popular as ever. One new user joins every second, the service hosts over 600 million repositories, and nearly one billion commits were made in 2025.

ChatGPT just became a much closer rival to Google's Gemini Live. OpenAI has released a major ChatGPT Voice update that brings far more natural conversations with AI, not to mention better answers.

For some reason, the very best Samsung tools and customization settings aren't shipped enabled by default. Instead, some of the best are hidden away in an app you have to download separately.

If your goal is to spend as little as possible on fuel, the obvious choices usually come from Toyota or Honda. Those brands dominate the hybrid conversation, but they don't actually build the most efficient SUV on sale today. That honor belongs to a smaller, often-overlooked crossover that quietly outperforms them all at the pump.

If your Netflix My List, like mine, is usually refreshed with documentaries as new monthly schedules roll around, July's schedule has plenty to offer. The streaming platform is releasing a mix of true crime, disaster, and historical documentaries that revisit shocking events and cases.

KolibriOS is an open-source project that brings you an entire operating system in just over a megabyte. The operating system has a graphical interface and lots of neat utilities and games. Let's boot into it.

Most PCs ship with just one Ethernet port, and for most people, that's plenty. But, even though my own computer only had one such port, I decided to add a second one with a USB-to-Ethernet adapter. It cost me about $10, and it was a shockingly good little upgrade.

Earlier this year, I discovered the many joys of self-hosting. Since then, I've canceled countless subscriptions and replaced my favorite cloud services with apps running on my own hardware. Yet, I can't seem to stop using a note-taking app that isn't the most powerful and lacks many features techies look for. Of course, I'm talking about Google Keep.

For years, Netflix had a clear goal — get subscribers to come back for the next season or blockbuster. Now, it is no longer competing with other streamers. It’s coming for YouTube’s turf, too. On August 3, Netflix will add videos from popular digital publishers, letting you watch home tours, recipe clips, and celebrity profiles without ever leaving the platform. None of these videos are produced or funded by the streaming service itself. Instead, Netflix is licensing existing series that millions of people already watch elsewhere.

The Toyota RAV4 closed out 2025 as the third-best-selling vehicle in the United States, making it the best-selling vehicle that wasn't a pickup, with almost half a million units sold. The RAV4 has topped the compact SUV segment every year since 2017, thanks to its reputation for reliability, fuel-sipping powertrain options, and a lineup wide enough to cover nearly any budget.

I switched to streaming TV shows and movies years ago, but I still keep some of my favorite shows stored locally on my PC because I want to be able to watch them offline. That doesn't happen often (in fact, it's only happened a few times over the last few years), but there's no worse feeling than the internet going down and not being able to watch your comfort show while eating lunch.

When I first got my Ugreen NAS, I thought about replacing its operating system. Tinkering is in my blood, and replacing the operating system couldn't be that hard, right? Well, it's not, but it's also not necessarily worth replacing. After extensive testing, I've decided that I'm going to only stick with UGOS on my Ugreen NAS systems—here's why.

A lot of modern devices and appliances offer smart features. These features promise to let you monitor and control your devices remotely or add them to your smart home, at a premium price point.

You'll soon have the option to back up your Android phone to your Windows PC without touching the cloud, but there might be a catch. Google is now known to be developing an automatic backup feature for PCs, but Samsung phones won't be supported.

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 was a milestone release: it showed that Samsung's flagship foldable could be just as thin and light as conventional phones while sacrificing relatively little. But the imminent Galaxy Z Fold 8 still has to do more.

For a long time, I struggled with sluggish web browsing around my house. My internet connection isn't particularly fast, but I could have sworn websites loaded more quickly on my old Wi-Fi 5 router than on my brand-new Wi-Fi 7 model. That didn't make much sense. Even though the newer router is a budget model, it's still packed with newer technology and supports a much higher theoretical bandwidth.

The morning school run isn't exactly where you'd expect to find serious performance. It's usually a sea of family SUVs, backpacks, coffee cups, and enough snacks to survive a road trip.

Halfway through 2026, I expected my PC upgrade to come from a better GPU, more RAM, and a better monitor to tame my increasingly messy workflow. All that didn’t materialize, and instead, the upgrades that actually changed how I use my computer came from six apps that cost nothing and took a few minutes to install and get used to.