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bbport runs Bloodborne's PS4 x86-64 executable natively on x86-64 Linux PCs. GPU is still emulated via shadPS4 (heavily extended for Bloodborne); CPU code runs natively. Not fully verified - needs game dump v1.09, Vulkan 1.3 GPU, RDNA2 for FSR4; expect bugs. There has been a huge wave of unofficial console ports to the PC over the past few days. Our gaming editor, Patrick O'Rourke, has been hard at work documenting them all, with the latest being Super Mario Bros. Wonder making its way onto PC.

Google quietly raised Pixel 10a prices by $100: 128GB now $599, 256GB $699. No official notice from Google; price hike likely tied to the ongoing RAM supply crisis. The new base price pushes Pixel 10a into mid-range territory against rivals like Samsung A57 5G. It hasn't been a great few years for purchasing hardware.

Everyone told me a NAS needs a NAS OS, and for years I believed it. TrueNAS 25.10 ran my home server, and plenty of people keep coming back to it for good reasons. Then I looked at my dashboard and saw 3.2GB of my 8GB of RAM gone before a single file moved. With RAM this expensive, buying one of the best NAS boxes felt like the wrong fix. So I installed plain Debian 13 and added Cockpit, the browser dashboard for Linux servers. Three weeks in, it's doing more with less, and I'm not going back.

Obsidian's graph view is probably the most satisfying part of the app. If you have hundreds or thousands of notes, opening it gives you a really cool-looking interconnected web of dots, and everything is clickable. This graph view also seems to be a core part of second brain setups, and it can make any folder of markdown look a lot cleaner than it is. But getting something out of it is a different story - most people just zoom around for a bit before closing the tab.

Google Maps is great, and Waze is even better when I need up-to-date road-condition information. Between road reports and effective rerouting, it makes getting where I want to be exceptionally easy. But a navigation app is more than that. Whether it relies on a constant data connection or collects more information about me than I'm willing to share. So, lately, I've been experimenting with a few alternatives. It's hard to replace Waze with a single app.

While I continue building and managing my home lab, I keep a handful of browser tabs open. One shows the Proxmox dashboard for my HP ProDesk 600 G6, with the different VMs and LXCs on the mini PC. A second tab is the router's admin page, a third is Home Assistant, and a fourth is Jellyfin. Switching between these tabs is faster with keyboard shortcuts, but it can get tiring. I wanted an interface that showed me my whole lab, the same way a dashboard app for self-hosted services would.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is reportedly running natively on PC at roughly 60fps using recompiled C++ and NVN→Vulkan. The native port has graphical glitches and occasional frame drops, but is still impressive. The project hasn't been released publicly (if and when it does drop, it's likely, Nintendo won't be happy). The retro game PC port world keeps kicking things up a notch. YouTuber Belamante has managed to get original Switch game Super Mario Bros.

For the vast majority of people, which DNS their network uses is an afterthought, and by default, it's usually set to the one their ISP runs for them. That's not a bad thing, but most ISPs select their DNS server for ease of support if something were to go wrong with your connection, not because it's the fastest or most impervious to outages. Changing it on your devices one-by-one can take up a good chunk of your time, and it's not even possible to do so on some devices.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is reportedly running natively on PC at roughly 60fps using recompiled C++ and NVN→Vulkan. The native port has graphical glitches and occasional frame drops, but is still impressive. The project hasn't been released publicly (if and when it does drop, it's likely, Nintendo won't be happy). The retro game PC port world keeps kicking things up a notch. YouTuber Belamante has managed to get original Switch game Super Mario Bros.

RAM prices have shot up so much in the last year that a 32GB DDR5 kit can cost more than a flagship gaming CPU like the 9800X3D. That's a tough pill to swallow if you're planning to build a new PC today, but it's even worse if you're upgrading from an older AM4 build. And those who remember these kits being available for just $100 early last year will probably have an even harder time convincing themselves to pay four or five times as much.