If I were to ask you where a specific, niche item was in your home, could you tell me? Many of us have a general idea of where to find things, but we have all experienced the annoyance of trying to find a particular tool or item and turning the house upside down to no avail. My garage looks like a bomb went off after a fruitless search for a faucet wrench, and I decided enough was enough—there had to be a better solution.

Between its terrific virtualization performance, LXC (and now OCI images) support, and clustering tools, there are plenty of reasons why I adore Proxmox. However, Proxmox’s thriving community might just be my favorite aspect of the king of virtualization platforms. Aside from the massive documentation and helpful forum posts, the talented developers in the Proxmox community have designed several unique tools that add some much-needed features to my PVE nodes. Not to mention, with Proxmox essentially being built on Debian, it’s possible to arm a PVE instance with conventional Linux packages.

Microsoft has been making waves among its productivity users lately. There was a story that Office was being rebranded to Copilot, but that wasn't exactly true. What was true was that we were seeing Microsoft bundle all of its productivity-based services under one blanket term: Microsoft 365 Copilot. So, yes, while Office does now have the "Copilot" bit added to it, it's still Microsoft 365 with Copilot, instead of just Copilot. Does your head hurt yet? Don't worry, that's a normal side effect of Microsoft naming conventions.

I lost track of how many times Jellyfin buffered while I tried to turn on my smart lights. How many times have I noticed the LED blinking frantically on my Raspberry Pi’s case. How many times SSH would stop responding, and I had to walk over to perform a hard reset. And I thought it was normal.

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about Big Tech, Big Government, and the big paradigm shifts that result from their collision. Not a subscriber yet? It's a new year, so why not treat yourself?In 2022, Jake Sullivan, then national security adviser under President Joe Biden and a powerful figure in the White House's foreign policy team, assembled an interagency planning exercise out of the Situation Room: What were all the possible circumstances and outcomes of an AI arms race between the US and China - from trade wars to real wars, possibly even the arrival of AGI - and how would the federal government resp …Read the full story at The Verge.

MSI just launched the most technically advanced graphics card known to man for CES 2026, at least that's what the marketing would have us believe, but the GeForce RTX 5090 32G LIGHTNING Z is quite the graphics card. The brand decided to bring back the legend after seven years as the most powerful card the company has released so far, smashing the competition with power draw, cooling, and test results. To show just how powerful this GPU is, two 12V-2x6 connections are present.

MSI came out full swinging at CES 2026 this year with a slew of new hardware launching for various segments. We've got new graphics cards, cases, coolers, and more coming out from the show floor.

When I first tried NotebookLM, I didn’t expect much. On paper, it kind of sounded like an AI version of Notion. But once I started using it for more serious work, it proved me wrong and became part of my daily system. It's so much more than a note-taking app, and it’s also better than any of the AI assistants in my other note-taking apps.

Buying a graphics card in 2026 often feels like a losing battle. It's less like choosing hardware and more like decoding marketing; The same GPU silicon can appear in half a dozen different SKUs, each one positioned as more “premium” than the last. Factory overclocks, oversized coolers, liquid cooling, and exclusive software features are all used to justify higher prices, even when the real-world experience barely changes from card to card. That's not to say paying for a premium card is totally without merit, but generally, if you're just looking at pure performance, there are several features that you don't need to pay extra for.

Having a powerful laptop is all well and good, but then needing five different cables for monitors, peripherals, and power can get annoying real fast. Not only is it frustrating to have to plug in all of these different cables, but it can make your desk an absolute mess. Which, for me personally, leads to lower productivity.

Before you turn your 3D printer farm dreams into reality, it is worth slowing down and thinking through what selling your 3D prints entails. It is more than uploading a few photos and waiting for money to appear in your account. You are taking on legal responsibilities, quality expectations, and basic business logistics, even if it is “just a side hustle.” If you get the foundations right now, you will save yourself a lot of stress, reprints, and awkward conversations later.

Windows and macOS are the two most popular operating systems, and the former is widespread across the globe. While macOS might be a niche, premium operating system offering, Windows is widespread because it runs on most hardware. Linux has been trying to squeeze into the mainstream operating system space for the last decade, and this was a big year for it. Windows 10 bit the dust, and Windows 11’s strict hardware requirements pushed many capable systems into retirement. This change forced users to seek alternatives, and Linux seemed to be a feasible and secure solution.