OpenAI has announced a new version of its ChatGPT Pro subscription that costs $100 per month. The new Pro tier offers "5x more" usage of its Codex coding tool than the $20 per month Plus subscription and "is best for longer, high-effort Codex sessions," OpenAI says.The company is introducing the new tier as it tries to win over users from Anthropic and its popular Claude Code tool. ChatGPT's $100 per month option will directly compete with Anthropic's "Max" tier for Claude, which costs the same price. It also offers a middle ground between the $20 per month Plus tier and the $200 version of the Pro tier.(Yes, there are now two tiers of " …Read the full story at The Verge.

There's a certain thrill to mounting a TV on the wall. After all, it feels clean, modern, and almost like you've leveled up your entire living space over the course of a single afternoon. The problem, however, is that where you mount your TV matters just as much as how you mount it. Getting this right means you'll have a comfortable and immersive viewing experience for years to come, but if you get it wrong, you might be in for a world of different problems.

There are two things in the PC building process you can't ever trust. First is the I/O shield fitting in on the first try, and the second is the BIOS settings your PC ships with. Luckily, you can fix both with a little bit of tweaking, tinkering and less than ten odd minutes of your time.

When I first built my current PC with the Ryzen 9 5900X, I bought the Aorus 360mm AIO to keep the CPU temperatures in check, no matter what I threw at it. At the time, it seemed necessary for a 12-core CPU. When I later switched to the 8-core 5800X3D, I already had more than enough thermal headroom, so I didn't think twice about keeping it. Even though it ran a bit hotter than my old 5900X, it never crossed 80C while gaming, so I never felt the need to pay full price for another AIO.

The last couple of years have not been great for Windows, both in its usability and in the court of public opinion. In enthusiast circles specifically, Windows has largely been framed as something to "escape" from, with the oasis being Linux, and its newfound ability to run the vast majority of games flawlessly is a large part of that. There are many people who only daily drive Windows 11 because it runs their favorite games, but as more of those titles become playable on Linux, there are fewer reasons than ever to stick around for gamers.

Gradually switching to self-hosting helped me discover numerous useful tools. I now use a Paperless-ngx alongside a local LLM on one of my systems, while my old laptop, with merely 4GB DDR3 RAM, runs eight Docker containers. I also have a few Raspberry Pi and Radxa boards, running a few more tools. Recently, I've dedicated one of my Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, a $15 single-board computer, as a password manager hosting device. It's helpful because it made me ditch LastPass, offers features that are seldom found in paid tools, and works without any data sharing or online interaction.

During my early Proxmox days, I stuck with GUI virtual machines and neglected LXCs for my self-hosted projects. However, I realized my mistake fairly quickly and jumped into the LXC rabbit hole with a single TurnKey-based Debian tamplate. Now, I’ve got dozens of LXCs scattered across standalone and clustered Proxmox workstations, and each containerized app has its own utility.

Most 3D printing advice about moisture starts with a real problem and then barrels straight past common sense. Wet filament absolutely causes headaches. It can pop, string, ooze, and turn a perfectly reasonable print into something that looks tired before it even cools. That part is true, and it’s why dryers, dry boxes, and dehydration charts have become standard gear for a lot of hobbyists.

Valve is reportedly working on an AI chatbot that the company plans to use internally to address some customer support issues and to oversee anti-cheat measures.

For the past year or so, I've been self-hosting quite a bit of software on my improvised home lab and NAS. That includes a "cloud" storage service in Nextcloud, which I've combined with OnlyOffice Document Server for editing my cloud-stored documents.

Canva used to be my go-to for presentations and slides. It’s super quick to navigate, it’s a good-looking app, and just easy enough that you don’t really have to think about it when you’re using it. But Canva’s been on a tear with its pricing these past few years and also paywalled more of the previously free features.