Summary Do you find that Steam Remote Play and Steam Link isnt up to your standards? There’s an alternative you’ve got the option to try in the form of Moonlight and Sunshine. What Are Sunshine and Moonlight? Sydney Butler / How-To Geek The Moonlight and Sunshine open-source game streaming combo consists of two apps. Together, the two present the best open-source alternative toSteam Link. The two originally offered an open-source alternative toNVIDIAs GameStreamstreaming protocol....

Messaging Scams: Stranger Danger These scams usually start with an innocent sounding message “Hi Tim! It was great to meet you at the conference!”. Don’t be fooledthey know they have the wrong number, and are searching for potential targets to develop. Neither Microsoft or Apple, nor any other big tech company will call you in this way. These rely on making you panic so that you’ll follow their instructions. The best protection against phishing scams is to never select links in emails that lead to a login page....

Summary Want an easy solution to managing group members and passwords on Linux? The gpasswd command will help you do that. Let’s get started. Hannah Stryker / How-To Geek What Makes the gpasswd Command Useful The gpasswd command lets you administer groups on Linux. There are a few ways to overcome this problem. I’ll first create a group we can test it upon. Feel free to skip this if you already have a group....

Summary Sorting through the niche and varied world of pre-built Linux computers is a challenge. Its name doesn’t lie; giving it a try I found myself pretty focused. It’s also the first 16-inch edition of the model, alongside the established Ir14. Jerome Thomas / How-To Geek All Kubuntu Focus products are made in a partnership between Kubuntu developers and California-based manufacturer Carbon Systems. The structure felt solid, a crucial achievement when designing a user-serviceable laptop like this one....

What is Amazon Prime Day? Prime Day is one of the company’s biggest sales events of the year. We’ve done the hard work for youbelow are some of the best Amazon Prime Day deals! Lucas Gouveia / How-To Geek |Hadrian/ Shutterstock UPDATE: 07/17/2024, 16:14 We’ve removed sales that have ended from our roundup. These Amazon earbuds are seeing a deep discount for Prime Day. It’s hard to argue against $35 ANC earbuds!...

Well, Xbox Play Anywhere presents a compelling argument to the contrary. A key feature of Play Anywhere is that your progress goes with you. There are many reasons to beboth a console and PC gamer. Skrypnykov Dmytro/Shutterstock.com Theofficial Play Anywhere websiteprovides a full list of compatible games. On the plus side, all first-party Microsoft games are compatible with Play Anywhere. This includes games likeStarfield,Sea of Thieves, andHi-Fi Rush. The Xbox Play Anywhere program fails to include some notable must-have titles, though....

Summary Remember when cross-platform multiplayer gaming was something we all wanted? Now that we’ve got it, I don’t think it’s panned out exactly how I expected. Here’s why I’m so far unimpressed by cross-platform gaming. EKKAPHAN CHIMPALEE/Shutterstock.com It’s a technological innovation to tie games from different systems together in the same space. One of the best things about cross-platform gaming is the lack of wait times in matchmaking lobbies. Pooling all players together means it’s a lot easier to find a game....

The question is, how can you convert a physical book into a digital copy yourself? It turns out there are at least three ways to do it. Why You Should Digitize Your Books I love physical books, but I also love myeReader. Lucas Gouveia / How-To Geek | Andrey_Popov /Shutterstock Digital books have an undeniable set of convenient advantages. Not just that, but also every time you handle a physical book you wear it out....

Quick Links Last year, I decided to tackle my greatest sin: my gaming backlog. My library was full of unfinished gamessome of them I’d never even installed. That pile kept growing out of control as I bought the latest releases. Lucas Gouveia |SJBright/agencies/mkfilm/Shutterstock I wanted to play all these games, but how? I got serious and employed various techniques to help me clear my pile of shame. 1Organize Your Backlog Your first task is to identify your backlog....

But did you know that some of them reference your favorite TV shows and movies? From classics to new releases, Googles got a bit of everything. Here are some of the best ones weve managed to unearth. Go on, I’ll wait. I think “Friends” is one of those shows that will forever remain relevant. Clicking the couch will play Ross voice yelling Pivot!as well as tilt the entire screen. Each Friends character has a custom Easter egg attached to their name....

Quick Links A URL (i.e. a web address) is often more than meets the eye. Why Clean Links? This isn’t always a bad thing. For example, How-To Geek is partly funded through referrals. That link might earn us a commission and cost readers like you nothing. Remove Tracking Parameters Look at this example URL: See that bit after the question mark? Those are tracking parameters that tell the site you’re visiting where you found the link....

Quick Links I got into AI music generation back in March when Suno v3 dropped. Since then, Ive dabbled with many AI music generators and generated well over 1,000 AI songs. you’re free to check out mySunoandUdiooverviews to get an idea of how AI music generation works. Dibakar Ghosh / How-To Geek | Midjourney 1Visualize (or Audialize?) the Song The cool thing about AI music generation is the surprise me element....

Why VRAM Matters VRAM(Video RAM) is to your GPU asRAMis to your CPU. GPU horsepower means nothing if the chip is twiddling its virtual thumbs, waiting for the data it needs. Most current and past games will run just fine on 8GB of VRAM. Lucas Gouveia / How-To Geek | Yekatseryna Netuk /Shutterstock In particular, don’t use thehighest texture qualitysettings unless it all fits in VRAM with no performance issues....