About All About Techno

Most gadgets ship with a hundred settings and no instructions on which ones matter, so All About Techno reads the menus for you and reports back on the handful that do.

This is a letter for people who use their phones, laptops, and gadgets every day but never signed up to become the household tech support desk. You don't need to love this stuff. You just want it to work, quietly, without surprising you.

Every issue is practical and small on purpose. You might get a walkthrough of a privacy option worth changing once, a clean way to set up a device fresh out of the box, or an answer to something a reader wrote in about. No jargon left unexplained, and nothing you have to take on faith.

All About Techno covers settings, setup, privacy choices, and the sort of questions that feel too basic to ask a friend but are exactly the right questions. If a step is fiddly, it says so. If a feature isn't worth the trouble, it says that too.

What it deliberately skips: breathless coverage of every new release, phones you'll never buy, and the endless churn of specs. It arrives every two weeks and stays out of your inbox the rest of the time, which is the way it should be.

What turns up in the letter

• Settings worth changing once
• Questions from readers
• Setting up a new device properly
• Privacy settings

How often it arrives

One email every two weeks.

The publisher

All About Techno is an independent newsletter. The company behind it and our registered address are on the Terms.

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