I love Final Fantasy X and can’t stand the unjustified hatred it gets

Something I’ve always found confusing was the overwhelmingly harsh and constant criticism of Final Fantasy X. Despite so many good things to come from it, some role-playing game purists often downplay the importance and success of the game. One would even say there’s a borderline hatred for Final Fantasy X in some cases, given how vicious some of the criticism can be.The game is the tenth mainline entry in the series that brought Final Fantasy into a new era, adopting fully voiced cutscenes and a new level of beautiful visuals. But even with all of that, Final Fantasy X still manages to be the center of disdain from some fans, often in comparison to many of the more popular games of the franchise. Whether some accept it or not, Final Fantasy X is actually a great sequel, and it doesn’t deserve the unjustified hate it gets so often.

Emily Brown
Houston

Microsoft admits that Teams’ UI is way too crowded, but it’s working on a fix

Of all the apps you can misclick in, hitting the wrong button during an online meeting is one of the worst. You can accidentally show your webcam, hang up on the call, stick your hand in the air, and even leave the call altogether, just from a simple aiming problem....

Jane Smith
Los Angeles

I use Claude and local LLMs together now, and it costs half as much while being twice as fast

"People are going to use more and more AI." The words of Jensen Huang have become more relevant by the day, and anyone in a vibe-coding, programming, or creative workflow already knows exactly what the Nvidia CEO meant.

Eloane Dupuis
France

HID Remapper now lets you use the Steam Controller on the Switch, and the trackpad actually works

In an ideal world, you'd be able to use any controller on any device. Different controller designers bring different things to the table, and having the option to pick your favorite and use it on any console or PC you own would be a huge benefit. At the very least,...

John Doe
New York

Trying to self-host LLMs made me realize local AI has a friction problem, not a quality problem

For the longest time, the conversation around local AI models revolved around quality. They were either too slow, too dumb, too small, or too incapable to match what the titans over at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are doing with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, respectively. That gap, however, is shrinking a...

Sophia Wilson
Atlanta

I added Claude Code’s memory to my workflows, and my automation became effortless

Anthropic has now built persistent memory into Claude Code. It works in two ways. First, there's Auto Memory, where Claude automatically saves useful project context, patterns, and preferences. Second, there's the CLAUDE.md file, which stores project instructions and context that get loaded into future sessions.

Özsu Kuzucu
Turkey

Your next “Raspberry Pi project” doesn’t actually need a Raspberry Pi

If you’ve worked on DIY computing projects in the late 2010s, you’ve definitely heard of the Raspberry Pi, if not own a few single-board computers belonging to this family. After all, their tiny form-factor, affordable price tags, and solid compatibility with popular Linux distros (and packages) made them the perfect...

Sophia Wilson
Atlanta

KDE Plasma 6.7 will make managing your clipboard a lot less annoying

One of the biggest benefits of using Linux is that it's a very much an operating system that gets out of your way. As such, when something on Linux doesn't respect people's choices and keeps bothering them, the developers are sure to know about it. And as much as I...

John Doe
New York

I have a new go-to browser

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 129, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, come on you Gunners, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've mostly been sick, which has meant nearly...

Jane Smith
Los Angeles

Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild

Just a stuffed deer having the time of his life. | Image: Gemini / The Verge Last year I deepfaked my kid's stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a...

Michael Johnson
Chicago

Filament Manager is the boring AMS upgrade that actually matters

The AMS has always been one of Bambu Lab’s best ideas, but also one of its messiest workflows. It can swap materials, keep spools ready, and turn a single printer into a much more flexible machine. Yet the software side has never quite felt as polished as the hardware promised....

Alyssa Weaver
United States

Lossless Scaling does 5 things DLSS and FSR simply can’t match

Lossless Scaling has built up a reputation in some corners of the PC gaming community as the secret weapon that makes DLSS and FSR irrelevant. To put it bluntly: it's not. If I'm playing a game with a proper DLSS 4 transformer-model implementation, that's what I'm reaching for, and FSR...

Olivia Miller
Seattle

I tested 3 tiny local LLMs for everyday work, and only one of them impressed me

The local models that get talked about most tend to sit in the 7B to 12B range, which is also where most setups land if you've got decent hardware. Anything smaller usually gets written off as a toy before it gets a fair try. But not everyone has 16GB+ of...