Daniel Oropeza Daniel Oropeza Shopping Editor Experience Daniel is Lifehacker’s Shopping Editor covering tech deals and reviewing TVs, headphones, speakers, and projectors. He earned his master’s in journalism from Columbia […]
Ryobi made a battery promise in 1996 and somehow still hasn’t broken it
Ryobi sold its first 18V cordless drill in 1996, back when the pack inside was nickel-cadmium and the connector was a plain molded rail. Nobody at the company has touched […]
I had no idea Samsung Notes had a free alternative this good
I’ve used Samsung Notes for months without really thinking about whether I needed anything else. It came with my Galaxy Tab A11, and it worked, and that was enough reason […]
Star Wars keeps getting bigger, but The Mandalorian and Grogu work because it doesn’t
Star Wars has spent decades making its universe bigger. Every show/movie introduces more planets, more factions, crime families, and political conflicts than most people could reasonably keep track of. That’s […]
My Wi-Fi had full bars and still felt broken, and I finally figured out why
There’s this common misconception that a full Wi-Fi bar equates to optimal internet. While that can be true in some cases, the bars only show the signal strength between your […]
My TV looked way too dark for months, and the fix took 10 seconds
For months, I kept prodding the backlight and brightness sliders on my LG TV, certain the panel itself had gone dim, before I found the actual culprit buried three menus […]
Samsung has had eight generations to fix foldables, and this problem still persists
Since its first Z Fold launch almost eight years ago, which looked like a gadget straight out of a sci-fi movie, to the launch of its latest Galaxy Fold 8, […]
Windows finally has the app store it deserves, and Microsoft doesn’t run it
Setting up a fresh Windows PC these days is still old-school for an operating system that runs so much of the corporate world. One app comes from the Microsoft Store, […]
Motorola just built the stylus Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold never should’ve lost
Samsung fans have long been acquainted with the S Pen, but in 2026, you can only get one on a single phone: the Galaxy S26 Ultra. Up until recently, the […]
I found a secret Samsung menu that unlocks features Samsung hasn’t officially given you
You would think that after owning a Galaxy device for years, I’d know every corner of One UI. Samsung’s software is dense, packed with enough settings that I still occasionally […]