I love Jellyfin. It lets me stream my favorite movies and shows anytime. No more worrying about a streaming service removing my favorite movies or shows from its library. That said, my Jellyfin media library is a huge mess. Whenever I click on the movie poster to watch it, another documentary starts. TV shows don’t display episodes in the correct order either.

My productivity journey has included a lot of switching between task management apps and note-taking software to try to find a workflow that works for me. But I've also found that identifying specific issues I struggle with has helped me find ways to make apps work better for me.

The Steam Machine might quietly end up being one of the smartest PC gaming purchases of the coming year, but only for a specific kind of player. If you're completely new to PC gaming, or still clinging to genuinely ancient hardware, Valve's console-style box suddenly makes a lot of sense. It does promise a streamlined, living-room-friendly experience without Windows nonsense, driver roulette, or background services nibbling away at your performance.

Yes, I know. Every year is the "year of Linux," even if it has never actually happened yet. It'd be a lot easier if I just wrote a template, "[Year number] is the year of Linux," and then updated the number every January 1st. However, I really do think that 2026 is going to be the year that people take gaming on Linux seriously. A lot of cool things happened in January 2026 alone that made me feel like this is the year, so I'm pretty confident that, at the very least, this'll be the year where we see people take gaming on Linux seriously.

The ability to scale your hardware to match your tinkering needs is one of the biggest advantages of a home lab. You can start off your server journey with an old PC and throw in spare storage rigs as your backup needs grow. And once your arsenal of virtual guests and archived data can’t be housed in your current systems, you can start upgrading them the same way you would a gaming PC.

When Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos entered the Senate office building on Tuesday, he got thrown a curveball. What started as a standard antitrust hearing relating to the Warner Bros. merger quickly devolved into a performative Republican attack about the spread of "woke" ideology on the streaming service. At the same time, arguably a much more influential platform was completely ignored: YouTube.After grilling Sarandos about residual payments, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) launched into a completely different line of questioning: "Why is it that so much of Netflix content for children promotes a transgender ideology?" Hawley asked, making an unsub …Read the full story at The Verge.

When you connect to a website or service, you're using the Domain Name System (DNS), which is essentially a giant internet directory. Think of it like opening up the phone book, but instead of companies and phone numbers, it's domain names and IP addresses. These addresses are what devices and software use instead of human-friendly domains like xda-developers.com.

As a movie, Iron Lung is occasionally thrilling but mostly forgettable. It's a small-budget horror flick that has some cool ideas and pulls them off in an extremely efficient way, creating a sense of tension that unfortunately never turns into outright scares. But the most important thing about it is what it represents. At a time when movie theaters are dominated by only the biggest blockbusters and smaller films are trying to forge their own paths, Iron Lung managed to make more than $20 million at the box office without the backing of a major studio. All it took was a lot of help from YouTube.The circumstances around Iron Lung aren't exa …Read the full story at The Verge.

Monitor arms are usually the last item on your mind when you are building a fresh setup. I vividly remember the first time I built a desk with my own money. The priority is obviously getting the desktop and display; everything else comes later. I bought a laptop first, but the small screen didn't suit my workflow after a few months. The 27-inch monitor was a hasty addition to my setup, but the default stand design soon became a burden.

As traditional streaming services slowly become more expensive, self-hosting alternatives like Plex and Jellyfin are rapidly gaining in popularity. Hosting media you acquire from various online sources, or ripping your own Blu-rays, takes more work than signing up for a Netflix or Disney+ subscription, but it's undeniably cheaper and allows you to be far more intentional with your media consumption. I've found it to sort of be like a refreshing digital version of Blockbuster.

One day after The Wall Street Journal published a blockbuster story about Meta's own dismal findings about teen girls' mental health on Instagram, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wondered whether Meta should change how it studies its platforms' potential harms."Recent events have made me consider whether we should change our approach to research and analytics around social issues," Zuckerberg wrote in a September 15th, 2021, email to top executives including then-COO Sheryl Sandberg and head of global affairs Nick Clegg. The day before, the Journal published a story based on documents obtained from a whistleblower later revealed to be Frances Haugen, …Read the full story at The Verge.

On Thursday, Bitcoin's value fell over 10 percent in a single day, dropping to around $64,000, the lowest it has been since the 2024 Presidential election, as CNBC reports. After crossing $100,000 in November 2024 and peaking at over $122,000 in October 2025, the cryptocurrency has been in a steady decline for the last several weeks. Here are some other crypto headlines that have popped up as Bitcoin's price continues to slide:Ethereum-focused treasury BitMine's hoard lost over $8 billion in value on Thursday as Ether dropped below $2,000, CoinDesk reports. Bitcoin has effectively erased "all gains since its $69,000 all-time high in …Read the full story at The Verge.