Mark Zuckerberg has a new defense of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses: They're actually doing more to signal they're taking a photo than phones do. He's brought this up in at least two recent interviews, noting that the glasses have a light that comes on to signal when a photo is being taken, while phones do not. In one of the interviews, Joanna Stern notes that, while phones do not always emit a light, someone does have to hold a phone up in the air, which is itself pretty noticeable.On today's Vergecast, we're talking about Meta Connect, the Muse AI assistant, all the new smart glasses hardware, and Zuckerberg's response to the privacy uproar ar …Read the full story at The Verge.

There was a time when, every time I opened File Explorer, Steam, or Ollama, I caught myself itching for another PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD. There's been a silent inflation in the storage economy over the past couple of years. In that, it seems that everything I have seems to cost more in gigabytes than it used to. Games, local AI models, project folders, all of that seems to have grown.

If you're an AI power user, sometimes the weekly resets can really hamper your productivity. Fortunately, if you're a Claude user, it seems the AI company has thrown everyone a bone, albeit a limited one. Claude users are reporting a button that lets you reset your weekly limit with a single click, but don't get too used to it; it's only around for one month, and you only get one, so use it wisely.

One of the questionable limitations of the iPhone 18 Pro's new main camera with a variable aperture is that you're limited to just four settings in the native iOS' camera app in manual mode: f/1.48, f/1.8, f/2.8, and f/4. Those same limitations are also in place when the app is adjusting the iris itself in Auto aperture mode, but it turns out that's not a strict limitation of the iPhone's camera hardware. Apple's SDK allows third-party camera apps to implement more granular control of the aperture.BlackMagic Design's well-featured and still completely free BlackMagic Camera app for iOS was one of the first third-party options to introduce …Read the full story at The Verge.

Spotify is great, but it's not the be-all and end-all of music playback. Over the years, I've gravitated toward a highly curated, high-res music library on my NAS. Now, that's great when I'm at home, but what about listening on the go? It turns out, Android Auto can connect me to the music library sitting on my NAS just as well. I can browse albums, pick playlists, and play exactly what I want, with or without great internet connectivity.

There are some tests one can do to see just how capable a locally hosted large language model (LLM) actually is. It's one thing to fire up Ollama and choose a model to ask it some general queries and something completely different to request something more in-depth. I thought about how well LLMs can put together documentation, using project files as a source, so I decided to see how well my Qwen 3.6:27b-q4_K_M would handle it. Unsurprisingly, it did a fine job.

Docker has been reliable enough on my home server that I never thought much about the latest tag in my Compose file. That changed the day I decided to test Jellyfin’s release candidate version 12 before it went stable. Weeks later, my container refused to fetch the finished build. Chasing that down sent me into troubleshooting mode, and that’s when I learned what the latest tag really is, and what I assumed about it turned out to be wrong. The latest tag isn’t a promise about version numbers; it's a tag that someone else controls. Understanding that changed how I write every image in my server's Compose file.

There's a special kind of homelab itch that comes from an IP address you can't explain. I had three: 192.168.4.22, 192.168.4.44, and 192.168.4.81. No hostnames, no PTR records, and nothing in Home Assistant claimed them. One of those had been bugging me for months, and I had a sneaking suspicion it was a TV.

Despite being an avid user of the Raspberry Pi back in the day, modern RPi single-board computers have a lot of issues on the pricing front. For one, even the latest and greatest Raspberry Pi 5 has extremely outdated specifications, especially when compared to rival boards that have started cropping up everywhere as of late. With the ongoing RAM apocalypse causing Raspberry Pi SBC prices to shoot up beyond control, it’s getting harder to justify grabbing one of these boards just for simple projects.

My N64, SNES, PlayStation, and other console games have lived on the same NAS share for years, and for most of that time, they've been about as useful as the box of cartridges and CDs that lives in my closet.

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Creeping subscription fees make cloud storage feel a little bit like a scam. Some services can cost hundreds of dollars a year just to keep backing up family photos in original quality. On top of that, the backup process itself is frustrating. Cloud services can throttle upload speeds, compress raw files in the background, and trap your media behind proprietary web viewers with zero granular control.