How-To Geek

I run Pi-hole on my network to help block unwanted ads and trackers. Pi-hole logs all of the DNS requests made by devices on my home network. There are hundreds of thousands of queries to thousands of domains, so I let Claude take a look at the log to see what it could find.

Bringing back an iconic nameplate is always a risky move, especially when expectations have been building for years. Enthusiasts wanted a lightweight, affordable sports coupe that captured the spirit of its predecessors, making the latest revival one of the most closely watched launches in recent memory.

Netflix is closing out June with two new original movies: Little Brother and Voicemails for Isabelle. As of publication, Little Brother and Voicemails for Isabelle are currently the first and second movies in the top 10, respectively. By this time next week, a third original movie, Enola Holmes 3, might have the No. 1 spot.

The Windows PC industry just caught a big break. After months of holding out, Apple has raised prices for its computers (and to address soaring memory and storage costs. Systems that seemed like bargains compared to ever-pricier Windows PCs, including the MacBook Neo, are now merely competitive.

With the prices of SSDs currently very much through the roof, it's a good time to try to make the best of yours instead of letting it rot. And yet, I'm sure that many of us have an SSD just silently rotting in a drawer somewhere, be it an older drive or a backup that gets plugged in once a year.

Comcast is once again shaking up streaming video and cable TV. The company is spinning off NBCUniversal and the U.K.'s Sky as separate companies, letting Comcast itself focus on technologies that include Xfinity, its Xfinity Mobile wireless service, and its fiber optic network.

From the moment I heard about the reMarkable E-ink writing tablet, I wanted one, but I was put off by its relatively locked-down experience. Fortunately, I've come across an alternative that's more open, and I'm quite confident I like it even more.

Americans took out auto loans at some of the highest interest rates in two decades between 2022 and 2024, as the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate to a level not seen since 2001.

Do you think Docker is only for developers? I’ve heard that saying, but it couldn’t be more wrong. I’m not a developer, and I use Docker to run dozens of services and apps in my homelab.

Modern SSDs are amazing, and I'm not about to pretend I want to go back to shuffling super slow disks or wrestling with ribbon cables inside a beige PC case. (Although, in all fairness, I do miss those beige PCs a lot.)

It's the end of June, which means movies will be departing from nearly every major streaming service. Conversely, new films will be added to make up for the loss. For our top pick, Netflix kicks things off in July with the third movie in one of its most popular franchises and features arguably its most popular star, Millie Bobby Brown.

We’ve all been there: you come home from work, take a shower, and settle in to stream a show on the kitchen TV while cooking, only for it to keep buffering despite a strong Wi-Fi signal.

Samsung’s long and slow transition to Google Messages is finally coming to an end. On July 6—exactly one week from today—the Samsung Messages app on Galaxy phones will officially be discontinued. It’s time to make the switch.

Every time you search Google, Bing, or Amazon, you see a clean list of results. But under the surface, those pages contain a large amount of structured information, including rankings, product listings, reviews, featured snippets, and related questions. For developers, getting reliable access to that information in real time has traditionally meant building and maintaining complicated scraping systems.

You might soon have a major alternative to SpaceX's Starlink and Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper) for satellite broadband. Launch company Rocket Lab is buying satellite giant Iridium Communications for about $8 billion in a move that could keep you connected when you're far away from cellular networks.

I didn't realize Android Auto replaced Google Assistant with Gemini until I tried to make a phone call. What should have been a simple experience made me switch back to Google Assistant. It wasn't exactly horrible, but something hilarious and kind of weird happened the first time I tried calling a contact.

As summer gets underway with its suffocating heat patterns, there’s no better time to sit in the air conditioning and indulge in movies with a casual, crowd-pleasing atmosphere full of adventurous escapist vibes, summer romance, and decade-specific nostalgia.

2021 doesn't seem like that long ago, but in the world of computer technology it might as well have been a century. If you bought your storage back then, the prevailing advice was to get something between 500GB and 1TB, and that SATA was still perfectly fine, with most apps and games seeing no real benefit from the faster (but much more expensive) NVMe drives.

Python has a huge, active ecosystem of third-party libraries for developers to use and build upon. The Python Package Index (PyPI) lists hundreds of thousands, so where on earth to begin?

StumbleUpon is back. Sort of. Although the original site shut down and became Mix back in 2018, other people have developed various randomizer-style websites to provide a similar experience.