It might be 2025, but let’s be real — 64GB USB drives and microSD cards are still everywhere. They’re cheap, reliable, and often the first thing you grab when you need a backup or plan a quick gaming escape.

If you have just obtained your Raspberry Pi or have been using one for a while, you have realized that the terminal is where you will spend most of your time working with this device. Whether using the Pi as a DNS server for your home network, a smart home hub, a media server, or working on any other project, familiarizing yourself with basic commands is essential to make everything smoother. I have been using a Raspberry Pi for various projects, and several commands are like an everyday toolkit. Some are basic and suitable for getting started, and some are advanced, perfect for digging deeper into the system or automating tasks. Below are the main ones.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum speaking on April 22, 2025. | Photo by YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty ImagesMexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Friday that her government is suing Google for relabeling the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America” for US users, CBS News reports. The company had done so in Google Maps after President Trump ordered the name change at the beginning of his Presidential term. The lawsuit makes good on Sheinbaum’s February threat that Mexico would “proceed to court” if the company didn’t change the name, which it kept as Gulf of Mexico for users in Mexico, but switched to “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” in regions outside of the two countries. According to a machine-translated transcript of Sheinbaum’s Friday press briefing, she says “the only thing we want is compliance with the decree issued by the United States government,” which, she adds, “wouldn’t have the authority to name the entire Gulf, because that is an international attribution.” President Sheinbaum continues:We couldn’t say anything about changing the name of a state, a mountain, or a lake. So, the part of their territory that corresponds to them can be called whatever they decide. The part that corresponds to Mexico can’t be renamed. The part that corresponds to Cuba can’t be renamed, either. So, what we’re saying is, “Google, stick to what the United States government approved.”Prior to her briefing, Mexico sent letters to Google asking it not to label its territorial waters as Gulf of America, and Sheinbaum shared a reply from Google VP of government affairs and public policy Cris Turner stating the company had no plans to change its policy. CBS News notes that the US House passed a bill on Thursday that would codify the name change.The Trump administration has been insistent that non-government entities honor the Gulf of America moniker, even barring The Associated Press from Oval Office press briefings when the outlet refused to use the new name in initial reporting — a ban that a federal judge ordered last month be dropped. Among tech companies, Google was one of the first tech to comply with Trump’s wishes, altering the Gulf of Mexico’s name to Gulf of America in app and browser versions of Google Maps by February 10th. Apple soon followed suit. MapQuest, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to have given in, and has a site specifically making light of the name change.Google did not immediately respond to The Verge’s request for comment.

Ever since I started exploring alternate options to take notes, I've been constantly going back and forth between Notion and Obsidian. They're both excellent apps that offer a host of functionality apart from just taking notes. You can use them to create to-do lists, wiki pages, planners, etc. You can even map content from different notes and link them together. The possibilities are plenty. However, by default, Obsidian can only be accessed via the app. While that is fine for most people using their own devices, what if someone wants to access their Obsidian notes using a device that's not theirs? It could be a friend's phone, a public computer in a hotel, or their office laptop.

With the announcement that Rockstar has delayed Grand Theft Auto VI to May 26, 2026, it might seem like the publisher and parent company, Take-Two, is in dire straits without its cash cow. That may have been true in a different calendar year, but Take-Two has been working on several games, and the timing has worked out in the company's favor.

The iPhone 16 Pro Max, pictured here, is already pretty glassy.This morning, while summarizing an Apple “product blitz” he expects for 2027, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes in his Power On newsletter that Apple is planning a “mostly glass, curved iPhone” with no display cutouts for that year, which happens to be the iPhone’s 20th anniversary. That follows a report last weekend from The Information, which said that “at least one 2027 iPhone model that will place the front-facing camera underneath the screen to enable a truly edge-to-edge display.” Late last year, a report from The Elec said Apple is working with its display partners to create a bezel-less iPhone, but not one that curves the display down the side of the phone — a trick companies like Samsung and Vivo have employed in the past. But the “mostly glass, curved” part of Gurman’s prediction is more interesting to me, because what the heck does that mean? After all, I’d describe the iPhone 15 Pro sitting on my desk right now as “mostly glass,” with the only exterior metal being around the camera lenses and in its titanium edge, which the front and back curve down to. Assuming he’s not describing a banana-shaped iPhone, the closest hints are probably in Apple patents revealed over the years, like one from 2019 that describes a phone encased in glass that “forms a continuous loop” around the device. Apart from a changing iPhone, Gurman describes what sounds like a big year for Apple. He reiterates past reports that the first foldable iPhone should be out by 2027, and that the company’s first smart glasses competitor to Meta Ray-Bans will be along that year. So will those rumored camera-equipped AirPods and Apple Watches, he says. Gurman also suggests that Apple’s home robot — a tabletop robot that features “an AI assistant with its own personality” — will come in 2027. On that “personality” mention, it’s hard not to think about the adorable robotic lamp Apple’s internal researchers have been tinkering with. Finally, Gurman writes that by 2027 Apple could finally ship an LLM-powered Siri and may have created new chips for its server-side AI processing. A December report from The Information covered such a development and suggested that the team handling Apple’s new AI chips is the same Israel-based silicon design group that was “instrumental in designing” the Apple silicon chips that let the company ditch Intel chips for its Macs in 2020.

I've been using Nginx Proxy Manager for quite a while now as a way to access my self-hosted services with valid SSL certificates over Tailscale. I have my own domain that I use with subdomains pointing to individual services, and it works very well. For applications that require HTTPS, such as Home Assistant for some features, it's absolutely perfect. However, I'd heard a lot about Caddy, and as I migrate some of my more essential home services to my mini PC Proxmox host, I decided to migrate my reverse proxies to the new host in Caddy instead of Nginx.

UV printing opens up a world of creative possibilities, especially regarding gift-giving. With its ability to print vibrant, durable designs on a wide variety of surfaces, you can make personalized items that feel professional yet heartfelt. Whether you're crafting gifts for friends, family, or customers, UV printing lets you combine quality with imagination.

I think a big selling point for a Raspberry Pi project is how cool it looks. A project could take very little effort to make and include very few parts, but if I can imagine it sitting on my table and looking really cool, then there's a good chance I'll fall in love with it.

Once you accumulate enough self-hosted services and reduce your reliance on someone else's cloud, a murky question starts to hang in the air. Sure, you save untold riches every month by not paying for subscriptions. Still, part of that subscription fee is towards server maintenance and resilience so that the cloud provider has near-perfect uptime, and you can access your data at any time you need.

A year ago, I wouldn't have believed my ears if you had told me that there would be a $7,000 gold-plated GPU on the market. However, that was before we saw scalpers sell the base GPU for $9,000 earlier this year, so suddenly a $7k price point doesn't seem that expensive. If you're in the mood for something as mighty as it is flashy, you can now score a gold-plated RTX 5090 from ROG, and honestly, it looks pretty amazing.

If you're building a new PC in 2025, DDR5 RAM is a no-brainer since it boasts significantly higher speeds and better efficiency than DDR4 modules. However, if you already have DDR4 RAM, upgrading to DDR5 doesn't make much sense, both financially and practically. That's because upgrading to DDR5 memory isn't as straightforward as buying new RAM sticks from online retailers. If you do that, you'd quickly realize you wasted your money when you try to install it onto your motherboard.