Internal documents revealed as part of a child safety lawsuit hint at Google's plan to "onboard kids" into its ecosystem by investing in schools. In this November 2020 presentation, Google writes that getting kids into its ecosystem "leads to brand trust and loyalty over their lifetime," as reported earlier by NBC News. The heavily-redacted documents, which surfaced earlier this week, are linked to a massive lawsuit filed by several school districts, families, and state attorneys general, accusing Google, Meta, ByteDance, and Snap of creating "addictive and dangerous" products that have harmed young users' mental health. (Snap settled earl …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Loch Capsule in a tiny house that lacks space for a built-in dishwasher. A dishwasher is a luxury item some people can't live without. It's one of the first major kitchen devices I bought just as soon as I could afford one. And now that the kids are grown, it's the appliance I thought I'd miss most in my nomadic vanlife pursuits.Loch sent me its $459.99 / €459.99 countertop Capsule dishwasher to review in a tiny home on a remote beach and inside a van on a two-month roadtrip. It's an excellent product that washes and dries two place settings quickly at bacteria-killing temperatures up to 75 degrees Celsius (167F) in as little as 20 minutes. It'll even kill bacteria and neutralize viruses on your gadgets with a …Read the full story at The Verge.

SBC is a fantastic subset of the computing world that continues to surprise me. Before that, I couldn't think of developing single-purpose projects, but now it's exciting to build something new. Previously, I converted one of my Raspberry Pi Zero 2W into a downloading device, and it works fantastically. It sips very small amounts of power and wakes up to my call when the need arises. However, I've found another role for my Raspberry Pi, which is using it as a local password manager device rather than relying on a paid one.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 113, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, please send hot cocoa to my freezing-cold house, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about private garbage collectors and vintage watches and My Favorite Murder, watching The Running Man (which was not great) and Sinners (which was extremely great), giving my Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses another whirl, nostalgia-tripping my way through The Format's new album, sitting in the audience for the first Star Search on Netflix, finally reading Dungeon Crawle …Read the full story at The Verge.

I resisted setting up automation for my home lab for the longest time, partly because I wanted to manually do the process repeatedly, so that it would sink in to help with learning. That meant I skipped out on handy CLI tools for one-line fixes, but I was focusing on the wrong aspect of setup. If I had to go back again, I'd learn automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Packer from the start, because the paradigm shift of seeing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) takes longer if you're already mired in a particular way of working.

Printers are already finicky enough to work with, so the last thing you want is for your software to have its own gripes, too. Unfortunately, as much as I love KDE Plasma, it does have some quirks with printing that make the process a little more annoying than it has to be.

For PC gamers, DisplayPort has been the default for some time now. It generally sports higher bandwidth than HDMI depending ont he version, has features tailored to the PC ecosystem, and eliminates the cable confusion that HDMI is prone to. Most monitors have a DisplayPort 1.4 connection that trumps any HDMI 2.0 ports available on the display.

There's a lot about Perfect Tides: Station to Station's Mara that I find relatable. Like me, she's recently moved to a place simply called "the City" from the middle of nowhere, and like me, she's an avid writer. But these biographical details aren't the important thing; it's the way she's painted by the game's incredibly sharp writing where I start to feel uncomfortably seen. There are a lot of characters in media that are awkward or socially anxious, but few that are drawn with such piercing specificity. The point-and-click game is minimalist in its mechanics. Consisting mostly of conversations, it's broken up by a few puzzles, object in …Read the full story at The Verge.

I respect Gemini using the royal “we” here. By lots of metrics, Gemini is winning. It has raced ahead of OpenAI, become scarily good at creating convincing imagery, and even won Apple's business. So last week's news that it was enabling something called Personal Intelligence felt like a victory lap. Personal Intelligence allows Gemini to reference past conversations and access your data in other Google services, including Gmail, Calendar, Photos, and search history, without you specifically prompting it to look in those sources. It's entirely opt-in, and you choose which apps Gemini can access and which it can't. It's in beta and only available to people with AI Pro and Ultra subscrip …Read the full story at The Verge.

This is not an Nvidia Arm laptop, but the old image seemed thematically appropriate. Intel and AMD have split the Windows laptop market for years, but the x86 players may be getting outnumbered. It's not just Apple MacBooks and MediaTek-based Chromebooks using Arm chips anymore. There are finally competent Qualcomm Snapdragon laptops running Windows, and - as soon as this spring - Nvidia will finally power Windows consumer laptops with Arm chips all by itself.They won't have an Nvidia graphics chip next to an Intel CPU, but rather an Nvidia N1 system-on-chip at the helm - and overnight, a Lenovo leak revealed that the company has built six laptops on the upcoming N1 and N1X processors, including a 15-inch gaming machine. …Read the full story at The Verge.

Self-hosting used to feel like a technical milestone to me. If the container was running and the dashboard loaded, I felt accomplished. I treated a successful install like a finish line. And honestly, it made sense, self-hosting used to be hard. But after running my own services for months, that mindset started to crack. The setup was exciting, but it was also temporary. What followed mattered more: keeping things running, secure, and stable over time. That’s when I realized the hardest part of self-hosting isn’t getting started, it’s everything that comes after.

As PC gamers, we're almost always planning upgrades, tracking component prices, and thinking about the best time to upgrade. Some of us might not intend to upgrade for years, but others with older hardware might have made up their minds. It is then a question of finding the chosen parts at reasonable prices. Personally, I decide to upgrade my PC when my build is old enough, there's no new launch on the horizon, and prices are stable. Sadly, this trifecta actually existed around six months ago, but I was too distracted to take advantage. Since then, the prices of RAM, storage, and graphics cards have broken the stratosphere. We all missed the bus, and there's no telling how long our upgrade dreams need to wait.