Raspberry Pi evolved is an integral part of self-hosted projects. It has become a popular recommendation for almost anything you want to build or host. However, like any other device, a Raspberry Pi doesn't fit into every mold, requirement, or scheme. It's a tiny computing device, and most of us overestimate its capabilities. There's also a problem of using the incorrect Raspberry Pi model for a project, due to which the overall setup feels sluggish and underpowered.

PC hardware advice has never, ever been easier to find than it is today. Still, somehow, it's also never been more misleading. Between Reddit threads, YouTube shorts, and salespeople pushing whatever happens to be in stock, a lot of "common knowledge" about building a PC in 2026 is either outdated, exaggerated, or worse, flat-out wrong.

Okay, I know I've said that I believe 2026 will be the year of gaming on Linux, but I didn't mean we'd be seeing PS5s running it. Still, someone has managed to do something amazing and gotten FOSS working on the newest Sony console. Not only does it seemingly run just fine, but you can also play GTA 5 with raytracing on it just fine.

A blog post from Valve on Friday initially seemed to throw cold water on the idea that the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller would arrive in 2026 at all. But Valve tells The Verge it did not mean to suggest that - and that all three pieces of hardware will indeed ship this year, despite challenges from the ongoing memory shortage. Earlier today, Valve wrote that "we hope to ship in 2026," which sounded like a downgrade from Valve's earlier promises. As recently as last month, the company explicitly said it had not changed its plans to ship all three new hardware products "in the first half of the year," even though that its …Read the full story at The Verge.

When PCIe 5.0 Gen 5 SSDs started coming out in 2023, I was genuinely excited by their theoretical bandwidth claims, just like most of you guys. As someone who jumped straight from an old SATA drive to the Corsair MP600 PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive, I've already experienced what a real storage leap feels like. When Windows boot times reduce by five seconds, you notice it immediately. And when games take a few seconds less to load, you genuinely feel like the upgrade was worth your hard-earned money.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 118, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, please take my Switch away so I can get some work done, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about moon factories and railroad monopolies and backing into parking spots, finally digging into the Acquired podcast archives, taking tons of notes on Michael Pollan's new book about consciousness, watching everything Look Mum No Computer has ever made, breaking my computer trying to get the Obsidian CLI to work for me, giving the Zen Browser another try a …Read the full story at The Verge.

One look at printable file repositories like Printables or Thingiverse, and it's immediately evident that there's no dearth of things you could print. Most of these models are ready to hit Print, with minimal adjustment in slicer settings because they're already optimized for commonly used materials like PLA, ABS, and PETG. Some of them offer multiple preconfigured variations, while others are packed with parametric files you can tune to your liking. Lest I forget, enthusiastic hobbyists have also created whole themed model ecosystems like Gridfinity for drawer organization and the hilariously named Underware for under-desk cable management.

There are a lot of games that try to emulate The Legend of Zelda, but few that manage to capture that spirit in such a small, concise package as Ratcheteer DX. The postapocalyptic game only takes a few hours to complete, but over that span it nails the classic Zelda vibe almost perfectly, offering a real sense of adventure along with the satisfaction of figuring things out on your own.The game is set in a bleak future when most of humanity is hibernating beneath the Earth's surface in order to wait out an ice age. To keep things going, mechanics are awakened every so often to perform maintenance on all of the machinery that keeps everyone …Read the full story at The Verge.

The DJI Romo robot vacuums. | Image: DJI On Valentine's Day, I brought you a story that's since made headlines all around the world: How one man, just trying to steer his DJI robot vacuum with a PlayStation gamepad, discovered an entire network of 7,000 remote-control DJI robots ready to let him peek into other people's homes.To be clear, DJI had already begun addressing some of the related vulnerabilities before the man, Sammy Azdoufal, showed The Verge just how much he could access. But it wasn't clear whether DJI would pay him for his discovery, particularly after how it treated security researcher Kevin Finisterre back in 2017 - or how soon DJI might fully patch the additiona …Read the full story at The Verge.

Well, it's that time of the week again. Every Friday, the KDE team brings us a smorgasbord of things everyone has been working on in KDE Plasma. It's all open-source, meaning there are no hidden trade secrets or code obfuscated in proprietary software here, which means the team can collect everything that has progressed in the past week and present them as a nice end-of-week digest.

Having spent the last couple of months tinkering with LLMs, I have to admit that these local models have boosted my productivity once I began pairing them with FOSS tools. So far, I’ve hooked my Ollama models to Blinko, Paperless-GPT, Karakeep, VS Code (via Continue.dev), and other self-hosted services, and their superior reasoning capabilities make LLMs perfect for tackling monotonous tasks.

When Elon Musk burst onto the scene in his little Tesla Roadster, it seemed a matter of time before electricity rendered gas-powered sports cars obsolete. It hasn't worked out that way. Automakers have struggled to bring purely electric two-seaters to market. The ones that managed to emerge have been flatly rejected by consumers. Porsche has walked back plans for an all-electric lineup of Boxster and Cayman models, seemingly spooked by technical hurdles and tepid response from its fanatical customers. Lamborghini last week scrapped plans for its first all-electric model, with the CEO saying the brand's customers have almost "zero interest" …Read the full story at The Verge.