After finally investing in a high-capacity NAS, I decided it was time to start creating my own private streaming platform by ripping my hundreds of Blu-rays. There were two obvious contenders dominating the home lab space.

For years, I saw GPU sag as more of an aesthetic issue than something I needed to worry about. I'll admit it's an eyesore to see the far end of my GPU dip a few millimeters through the tempered glass, but as long as it worked normally, I didn't lose sleep over it. That's pretty much how I treated my old 3-slot ROG Strix RTX 3090, which sagged for about two years inside my case without a support bracket. It wasn't until I replaced it with a 2-slot liquid-cooled RTX 4090 that I started wondering whether I'd underestimated the problem.

My 3D printing folder used to make sense mostly because I was the one who made the mess. I had downloaded models, edited versions, slicer files, reference images, and my own revisions sitting beside one another, usually with filenames that felt perfectly obvious when I created them. Months later, names like final, final2, and fixed weren't nearly as helpful as I'd convinced myself they would be. Moving those files into Manyfold on my NAS didn't just make the library cleaner. It made old projects much easier to understand when I came back to them.

When you already have a Wi-Fi router and mobile devices with 5G or LTE, there's almost no reason to even think about the hotspot feature on any of your devices unless your ISP is down. But recently, I faced a completely different issue. My Wi-Fi router stopped working altogether, but my internet connection itself was perfectly fine. I got my PC back online by plugging the Ethernet cable from the fiber ONT directly into my motherboard's Ethernet port, but that still left my MacBook and iPad without Wi-Fi.

BYOK is a no-frills, single-purpose gadget that 90 percent of people will find absolutely frivolous. But for those who spend a significant chunk of their lives putting words to virtual paper, there is an obvious allure. Personally, I think it's at its best when you just stick to the bare minimum, focusing on pure text drafting. Certain users, though, need more. They want BYOK to take notes, they want to use it for writing screenplays, or maybe they want to organize a sprawling novel. Balancing the wants and needs of these more demanding users has been a challenge that BYOK founder Nick Sjolinder has been trying to figure out how to tackle. …Read the full story at The Verge.

I feel like Notion sits in a strange spot for many users right now. There are enough people who rely on it so that leaving it feels like a hassle, but the free tier keeps getting narrower every year. The 5MB per-file upload cap hasn't moved in ages and page history is still stuck at 7 days on Free. The pricing side is getting worse too. Notion killed the $10 AI add-on last year, so if you actually want meaningful AI usage, you're on Business at $20 a month, and that's billed annually.

Baking. Caramelizing. Cascading. Burrowing. Brewing. Concocting. Flibbertigibbeting. Dilly-dallying. Hullaballooing. Photosynthesizing. Razzmatazzing. Sautéing. Shenaniganing. Whatchamacalliting. If you use Claude Code and have spent some time staring at the terminal while it works, you’ve probably seen at least a few of these flash by.

Inspired by Oregon Trail, but minus the dysentery. | Screenshot: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge I used to be an avid hiker and would try to go backpacking a few times a year. I always dreamed of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, but life kind of got in the way. (Turns out jobs, wives, and children aren't thrilled with the idea of you disappearing for three months.) But I've been longing to reconnect with my love of the outdoors and just recently took my kids on their first camping trip. So I discovered A Trail Tale at a really opportune time. It's an interactive trail journal created by Andy Moliski with help from his brothers Adam and Alex.The various segments of the trail are rendered in beautiful pixel art reminiscent of a '90s S …Read the full story at The Verge.

Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos was arrested by ICE on Thursday, and today the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Reuters and the Washington Post that he had been deported to the UK. Yiannopoulos came to the US legally in 2019, but overstayed his visa. After he failed to appear in court for an immigration hearing, a final order of removal was issued ​on July 22. The British national made a name for himself as an editor at Steve Bannon's Breitbart and an early supporter of Donald Trump's. He has had a long history of controversial statements and associations, including reportedly helping arrange Trump's dinner with Kanye West an …Read the full story at The Verge.

Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for "tens of thousands" copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance when identifiable copyright data was stripped. In total, the damages could amount to several billion dollars if a court finds in Sony and Warner's favor and awards the maximum amount. This is just the latest high-profile suit against Anthropic, which recently settled a suit brought by the publishing industry for $1.5 billion. It's also faced multiple lawsuits from …Read the full story at The Verge.

Data leaks of games from the past, whether they were actually released or not, are always fascinating. For games that never made it out the gate, there's a cool element of imagining what the game would have looked like as a full release. For games that did release, it gives cool insight into how the developers fleshed out the game into the form we know today, and we may even see cut content that we wish never got dropped.

10 out of 10 beard. | Photo: Ben Mekler Joseph Fink is the cocreator and cowriter of Welcome to Night Vale, arguably the most important fiction podcast ever. He's also the creator of the noir podcast Unlicensed and Alice Isn't Dead, which takes some of the conspiratorial cosmic horror of Night Vale and turns it into fodder for a more serious series about relationships, trauma, and the open road. There's also a sequel series out now called Don't Tell Alice that takes the story down an even darker path in which protagonist Keisha is the one with a secret.Joseph is also an accomplished author. In addition to co-writing the three Welcome to Night Vale novels, he's also penned the Al …Read the full story at The Verge.