7 discontinued Linux projects I still miss today
How-To Geekby Umair Khurshid26 Aug 2026
Linux has never been short of ambitious projects. Some became major parts of the ecosystem, while others disappeared after only a few years.
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top 26%It's time to buy an adjustable desk while this premium model is $120 off
How-To Geekby Kris Henges26 Aug 2026
Want an adjustable desk? Then Secretlab's Labor Day sale is for you, offering $100 off the MAGNUS Pro desk.
Super Cruise vs. BlueCruise: GM's bigger network doesn't guarantee a better experience
How-To Geekby Carl Anthony26 Aug 2026
Hands-free highway driving has grown from a novelty feature into a full subscription business over the past decade, with GM's Super Cruise and Ford's BlueCruise combining for more than 1.8 billion...
I ran the one command in Linux you should never run. Here's what happened
How-To Geekby David Delony26 Aug 2026
Of all the Linux commands, rm is notorious. It's easy to completely wipe out your system with one mislaid rm command as root. I knew not to, but I ran that command on purpose anyway. Here's why.
4 great Paramount+ movies under 90 minutes to watch this weekend
How-To Geekby Dan Girolamo26 Aug 2026
First, you watched a series of great movies on Paramount+ with runtimes under two hours. Now, we're cutting that runtime to 90 minutes or less, meaning this list is for people who are strapped for...
I finally ditched Firefox for Brave, and Mozilla's stagnation is to blame
How-To Geekby Graeme Peacock26 Aug 2026
Brave is doing what Mozilla won't. Mozilla hasn't innovated in years. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of waiting. I have limited options, yet Brave ticks the right boxes.
Samsung buried a charging diagnostic tool in an app you probably uninstalled
How-To Geekby Jorge A. Aguilar26 Aug 2026
Charging a phone should be boring. You plug it in, it charges, you move on. When that stops working reliably on a Samsung, the usual instinct is to swap cables, restart the phone, and wait to see...
Ring's new encryption should keep the company out of your security footage
How-To Geekby Jon Fingas26 Aug 2026
Ring is at last addressing some of its longstanding privacy issues by limiting its access to your security camera videos.
I tested cheap Ethernet cables against premium ones—the difference broke my brain
How-To Geekby Jorge A. Aguilar26 Aug 2026
Too many people treat Ethernet cables like an afterthought. You use whatever cable is included with your router, or you buy a random Ethernet cable off of Amazon without verifying whether it...
4 new Milwaukee tools coming this year that you need to see
How-To Geekby Cory Gunther26 Aug 2026
In typical Milwaukee fashion, your favorite cordless power tool brand just unveiled several exciting new tools that are still coming later this year.
5 reasons you might want to compile your Linux kernel from source
How-To Geekby Sydney Butler26 Aug 2026
It's been over 20 years since I had to compile a Linux kernel, and that's because the boxed copy of Red Hat Linux someone gifted me wasn't going to work with my PC back then without adding stuff...
I stopped waiting to buy a Blu-ray player because they're never going to be cheap again
How-To Geekby Adam Davidson26 Aug 2026
My movie collection has been through many iterations. It started life on VHS, then moved to DVD, before I ripped all those DVDs so that I could stream them using Jellyfin.
6 weird Home Assistant sensors that make any home feel futuristic
How-To Geekby Tim Brookes26 Aug 2026
The most useful smart home sensors perform routine tasks like measuring temperature and humidity or detecting sudden movements.
Phone cases are dead—here's why today's flagships don't need them anymore
How-To Geekby Sydney Butler26 Aug 2026
I grew up with cell phones that didn't really care if you dropped them several times a day, so I just never got the desire to put phones in cases.
Why my old blue Ryobi drill outlasted all my Milwaukee tools
How-To Geekby Cory Gunther26 Aug 2026
I've bought a lot of cordless power tools over the years that have come and gone, but one has remained: this trusty old blue Ryobi drill.
I built a chore-tracking dashboard for my kids that pays out in screen time, not allowance
How-To Geekby Adam Davidson26 Aug 2026
If you have kids, you'll know how too much screen time can seem to affect your kids' mood and behavior.
Google Pixel phones have built-in diagnostic tools that nobody talks about
How-To Geekby Joe Fedewa26 Aug 2026
Google Pixel phones are not exactly renowned for having a huge selection of features—the downside to minimalism.
I thought portable apps were outdated until I built a USB toolkit around them
How-To Geekby Nick Lewis26 Aug 2026
I stopped using portable applications for a long time. Between cloud storage, web apps, modern package managers, and the ever-growing number of regular apps you can download and install, they just...
When a routine software update disabled the brakes—here's what happened
How-To Geekby Carl Anthony26 Aug 2026
An over-the-air, or OTA, update is any software fix or feature update an automaker sends to a car wirelessly, through a cellular or Wi-Fi connection, the same way a phone downloads a new app or...
Make it make sense: This mini PC is cheaper than the 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM that's inside of it
How-To Geekby Monica J. White26 Aug 2026
The PC market is a hot mess right now, with GPUs priced at up to $5,000 and 32GB of RAM going for, at minimum, $400 (DDR5). It's not a good time to buy ...