Fun vibes. Okay-ish photos. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge There's been a surge of interest over the last few years in inexpensive digital cameras. Younger folks are snapping up old point-and-shoots because they view the aesthetic as more authentic and more appealing than smartphone images. Companies are even rereleasing old tech at new prices. And there are cameras like the original Camp Snap: a $70 single-button point-and-shoot with no screen, designed as a modern take on a disposable film camera. It's cheap enough to send off with a kid to summer camp and accessible enough for just about anyone to enjoy its lo-fi aesthetic. I've been testing two charming examples of this formula: the $99 Camp S …Read the full story at The Verge.

Windows isn't considered as malleable as Linux is when it comes to lower-level system tweaks and fixes, but you might be surprised to learn that the recovery tools built in to Windows are actually pretty powerful. Recently, my friend was playing Detroit: Become Human when her PC suddenly froze. After a reboot, she was hit with an "inaccessible boot device" error, and subsequent reboots were met with a screen that required her BitLocker key. Entering it looped back around to the inaccessible boot device screen.

The BIOS, much like the Windows Registry, is a part of the system we rarely configure. It seems fairly technical, and with all the warnings doing the rounds, it feels like something best left untouched. For a long time, I didn't change much in the BIOS, except for capping the battery charge level and a few other simple settings. But as I dug more into it, I found out that there are a bunch of other settings, which, if optimized, could boost the PC's performance. And these are not those risky overclocking tweaks we have all heard about. These are simple changes anyone can make, usually without introducing instability.

MinIO has had a really rough time over the past few years. Once the number one way to set up open-source object storage, the people behind MinIO began making changes to the software that people really did not gel with. This included swapping to GNU AGPLv3 in 2021, which demanded its users share their source code if they used MinIO, coming to a head in 2025 when the developers gutted the free admin console and stopped publishing Docker images.

If you ever feel like you're slowing down and not quite at your peak, just remember, you're not as slow as Microsoft's glacial attempts to kill off the Control Panel. I've been covering the slow and steady migration over to the Settings menu for almost two years now, and the company is still making progress towards it to this day.

With an ESP32 board, you can nosedive into a sea of potential projects at various skill levels. Home Assistant captures that data and transforms it into automation or other value. But to know whether your project is working, it’s natural to put an LED on it.

Docker is one of the easiest ways to run self-hosted applications, but the initial installation process can be rather time-consuming. Typing in the proper CLI (that's command line interface, for those who don't know) commands requires precision, and a single mistake will have you repeating the process. For a process that's already a bit intimidating for beginners, this can throw a wrench into things — but that's where Docker Compose comes in.

Whenever it’s time to perform advanced data analysis in Excel, I usually prefer Pivot tables, Slicers, charts, and dedicated dashboards to get the job done. But lately, I have stopped building them entirely. Not because I have given up on deep data analysis, but because I have found something more efficient.

Rarely does anything good come for free. While I’d be willing to bet almost everyone reading this is subscribed to at least one service like Netflix, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Premium, or some combination of them all — AI is a different story. As someone who writes about AI daily (and has realized that AI is an incredible tool when used the right way), I’ve spent the better part of the last two years putting each AI tool through its paces every single day.

Whenever I shop for a new motherboard, I always focus on specs that actually have at least some impact on performance, like VRMs, RAM compatibility, PCIe lane count, NVMe options, and rear I/O. After all, those are the things that shape stability, upgrade flexibility, and how balanced the PC feels once you're done building. Everything else tends to fall into the category of features that look good on a product page but rarely make any difference in day-to-day use. Reinforced PCIe slots always felt like one of them.

Modern PC hardware often demands a balance between peak and stable performance. After all, what good are record-breaking frequencies and timings if your system can't sustain them for long? That said, if you're afraid of tweaking any of your components out of fear of instability, you may be giving up performance that others are enjoying without any effort. Yes, overclocking your CPU or tightening RAM timings is time-consuming, but you don't need to go that far to get extra performance out of your hardware. Choosing one or the other extreme isn't necessary when balancing stability and performance. You have a lot of options in between to ensure your PC isn't running below its potential.

As the RAM crisis begins to intensify around the world, we're beginning to see the knock-on effects. It began with the PC builders who noticed that their sticks of RAM had quadrupled in price in the span of a few months. However, it didn't take too long before the companies that build devices in batches began feeling the effects too.