A home server can be a powerhouse for convenience and entertainment. But managing it can feel like a daunting task. Here is where Docker comes into play, which effortlessly runs applications in isolated containers and boosts efficiency and security. In this post, I will dive into the most useful Docker containers that will transform your home server into a productivity machine, a media streaming hub, and a fortress of digital security.

With its simple web UI, Proxmox is a great OS for newcomers just starting their journey into the home lab ecosystem. However, beneath the beginner-friendly interface lie a range of advanced features that can turn any old server PC into a robust experimentation and self-hosting war machine. So, here are five complex settings you can enable on your Proxmox machine to take your home lab projects to the next level.

Proxmox is hailed by many as the king of virtualization platforms, though there are just as many operating systems you can use to power your home labs. There’s XCP-ng, which is great for tinkerers who prefer the Xen hypervisor over KVM. For a more production-oriented environment, you’ve got Harvester, though you’ll need a beefy server for the OS.

I thought the Steam Deck was plenty portable, but as it turns out, some people feel that it's not portable enough. To help cut it down to size, someone has rebuilt their Steam Deck without the screen or the controller, resulting in just a case with the Deck hardware in and not much else. The end result was a little brick-like device, so it was suitably crowned the Steam Brick.

If you're looking to boost the quality of your video calls, then going with a new webcam is going to be the best answer. While there are lots of choices out there, we think the Obsbot Tiny 2 is a great option, as it's currently one of the best webcams that you can buy right now. Not only does it deliver great video, but it also captures great audio as well.

The SuperStation One comes in three colors, including translucent blue. | Image: Retro Remake Retro Remake’s Taki Udon announced last night that preorders had opened for the SuperStation One, a clone of the PS One variant of the original PlayStation. The $149.99 Founders Edition preorders are sold out already, but you can still preorder the standard $225 SuperStation One for $179.99 right now, with shipping expected in “Q4 or Earlier.” While the SuperStation One looks like a PS One — complete with ports compatible with the original PlayStation controller and memory cards — it plays more than just PlayStation 1 games. It’s a custom MiSTER field-programmable gate array (FPGA) machine, as Polygon points out. That means rather than emulating game consoles, its hardware can actually function just like those consoles, with cores ranging from the Atari 5200 and NES to the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. Introducing the SuperStation one. An open-source PS1 FPGA gaming console that supports original games, memory cards, and controllers. Load games from a disk or a backup. Region free. Supports all MiSTer FPGA cores, including N64 & Sega Saturn.Learn more: retroremake.co— Taki Udon (@takiudon.bsky.social) 2025-01-26T01:02:28.357ZRetro Remake currently offers the system in black, gray, and translucent blue. It comes with a 64GB Micro SD card and has three USB-A ports, an ethernet port, and an NFC reader that you can use to trigger specific games to load. It uses USB-C for power.On the video side of things, the SuperStation One will have an HDMI port, along with VGA, DIN10, composite, and component ports geared for retro gaming setups. You’ll also find a 3.5mm audio jack and a digital audio port. Finally, there’s an expansion slot to support Retro Remake’s planned SuperDock accessory that adds a slot-loading disc drive, a 2280 m.2 SSD bay, and four more USB-A ports. That’s not up for preorder yet, but you can put down a $5 preorder deposit for it with an order of the SuperStation One.This is Retro Remake’s first console, though the company plans to make more later, as Udon told Time Extension last week. The company has released other products, including a DIY kit for upgrading the Nintendo Switch Lite to an OLED display.

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 68, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you’re staying warm and sane, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Kieran Culkin and insomnia and the eBay for fancy startup stuff, finally watching The Wild Robot, thinking a lot about my shopping habits while watching The Mega-Brands That Built America, adding a bunch of Baseus retractable cables to my travel kit, playing an amazing browser-based rendition of the Atari game Pitfall!, testing out the new Spark calendar for Android, and trying to copy Babish’s delicious-looking breakfast sandwich.I also have for you the biggest new phone in the Android world, the GPU every gamer’s going to want, an impossible test for AI tools, a clever Google alternative, and much more. It’s been a somewhat quiet week for new stuff, honestly, since it’s both post-CES doldrums and utter political chaos. But we’ve still got great stuff to talk about! Let’s do it.(As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you watching / reading / cooking / downloading / building... Read the full story at The Verge.

When you're planning a new PC build, it's all too easy to focus on the CPU and GPU and not on the most crucial part of your system. That's the motherboard, which connects every part of your system, helping it all work in glorious harmony and giving you smooth frame rates or high-performance productivity tasks. But by skipping the more expensive motherboards, you might be missing out on features that you might think should be standard equipment but aren't. Here are some reasons that you should really consider the more expensive motherboards the next time you build.

PC gaming has a long history of modding behind it. Classic games like Doom and Quake were released alongside level editors that enabled anyone to make more maps, mods, and full-length campaigns. Back when those were released, the best graphics cards were all VGA, but the ease of picking up the modding tools created a whole new wave of developers.

Figma, often known as the Google Docs of UI/UX design, has transformed the world of web design. It’s a powerful and intuitive platform to bring your website ideas to life. Gone are the days of static mockups – with Figma, you can create interactive prototypes that allow you to experience your website's flow and functionality before writing a single line of code.

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Whenever Netflix raises its prices — which seems to happen roughly as often as Ben Affleck falls in love with an A-list celebrity — the company always gives the same reason. It needs the extra money, you see, in order to keep investing in the kind of programming and product its 302 million subscribers demand. That’s how the standard monthly price of ad-free Netflix jumped from $7.99 to $17.99 over the course of the last 13 years, including a $2.50 jump just announced during the company’s recent earnings report. There’s still a $7.99 monthly plan, of course, but that one includes ads — and it’s a dollar more expensive than it was a week ago.But let’s be real with each other. You want to know why Netflix keeps raising its prices? Because it can. Because Netflix won. The rest of the streaming industry is competing ferociously over a finite pool of money, dealing with carriage disputes because of dwindling subscriber numbers, and panicking over the future of TV. Netflix is the future of TV. Over the last couple of years in particular, Netflix has gone from a solid streaming service to a practically unavoidable, virtually uncancellable part of mainstream culture. It has developed a... Read the full story at The Verge.

There are multiple stages associated with a new PC build where things can go wrong — you might buy the wrong components, inadvertently break some of them and cost yourself hundreds of dollars, or end up stressing about the wrong things after you build the PC.