When I first started trying out self-hosted services, I chose to get started on my main Windows PC. This was one of the quickest ways I could get started, especially since I didn't know the ins and outs of self-hosting.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 93, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I'm sad the sun is setting sooner, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I'm reading about the rise of GEO, laughing at Kirby's new shapes, acknowledging Google's good dunk on Apple, thinking of the best Wordle puzzle I can make, wondering if I'll ever see Microsoft's Windows XP-themed Crocs out in the wild, following the progress of The Bluesky Dictionary, and watching Antoni Porowski's excellent Architectural Digest Open Door episode.I also have for you some AI new …Read the full story at The Verge.

Nvidia artificially limits the capabilities of its consumer graphics cards. Start sharpening your pitchforks, get the torches ready, and then set them aside and take a breath. Consumer graphics cards don't have all the capabilities of their datacenter counterparts, despite sporting similar, or in some cases the exact same, silicon. It's an artifical limitation that shouldn't exist, but Nvidia has a good reason for creating it.

If you ever feel useless, rest assured that you're currently not as useless as the Copilot key on a Linux user's laptop. Well, I say "currently," because the Linux community are finding ways to tweak the Copilot key so it's actually useful to them, instead of just being a dead key.

Tech companies keep telling everyone that this or that AI feature is going to change everything. But when you press them for examples, real, concrete examples of how those AI tools should be used, the answers tend to be lackluster. Sometimes AI tools feel so open-ended, it's hard to know where to start or what the best way to use them might beWell, here at The Verge, we have to test all these AI tools to better report on the features and the companies building them. And we've found scenarios that were actually useful.In this bonus episode of The Vergecast, Senior Reviewer Victoria Song sits down with a bunch of Verge staffers to talk a …Read the full story at The Verge.

How it startedWhen I was growing up in the Midwest, everyone I knew drove small cars. My dad had a light pink Volvo 240, my mom drove a Dodge Dart, and my grandmother had a 1988 Honda Accord - which would eventually become my first car. We lived in the suburbs, so almost no one drove a truck, but if they did it was something small like a Ford Ranger or Toyota Hilux. Over time, those small cars were replaced by SUVs of increasing size. Today, anyone searching for anything smaller than a compact SUV will probably come up dry. Ford killed its sedan production in North America a number of years ago. GM took a little longer, but eventually, w …Read the full story at The Verge.

AOL's early internet days were a real Wild West frontier of tech ideas. Just ask anyone who was around in the 90s to tell you about the AOL trial CDs, and they'll be pleased to regale you of tales about how they used them, and some will even show you their collection. Yes, back then, you got compact discs that gave you a certain number of hours of free dial-up internet access, and it was one of the very first advertising drives to get people online and using the net.

If you're a freelancer like me, you probably have to juggle multiple projects at the same time. I initially tried using tools like Google Keep or Microsoft Excel to track all my deliverables, deadlines, and completed projects. However, none of these services offered niche features that could help manage projects. So, I turned to one of the most popular project management apps — Trello. For those unaware, Trello is used by several multinational organizations to manage projects. It's essentially a Kanban-style project tracker with multiple columns denoting the status of the task. While it worked well initially, I soon began seeing the limitations of Trello. For starters, it's an online-only tool. So if I wanted to work offline, it wouldn't load. Moreover, the interface was often sluggish in my experience, which ruined the experience.

Take a little phone break, as a treat. Leaving the house without my phone is the stuff of nightmares. Leaving the house without my phone on purpose? Are you kidding? What if I need to take a picture of something? What will I look at if I need to wait in line? What if disaster strikes or a War of the Worlds happens? The possibilities are too overwhelming. But in the face of all this uncertainty, I (mostly) left my phone at home for the past week - on purpose.I wanted to see if I could get by with just an LTE-enabled smartwatch, an experiment I've been itching to run for a while. I, like many of my fellow elder millennials, look at my phone entirely too much. It's my job, but sti …Read the full story at The Verge.

In the fascinating new reality of the internet, teen girls can't learn about periods on Reddit and indie artists can't sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month.Early Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI launched a new image and video generator called Grok Imagine with a "spicy" mode whose output ranges from suggestive gestures to nudity. Because Grok Imagine also has no perceptible guardrails against creating images of real people, that means you can essentially generate softcore pornography of anyone who's famous enough for Grok to recreate (althou …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Steam Deck is a great device for anyone that wants to take their favorite PC games with them on the go. With so many games that one can accumulate in their Steam library, it can be a great perk to have access on a portable device capable of playing them. Anyone that plays games regularly on Steam knows how many great horror games are released for the platform. Outside the popular horror titles that many people talk about, the genre is home to an incredible number of games that will provide scares, even though they're not very well-known. Sometimes, you just want to have something scare the daylights out of you, even when you're not at home gaming.

It's the lack of noise you notice first. There's no clatter of equipment, rumble of engines, or chatter of coworkers. Only the low hum of electronics. For an industrial space, this is eerily quiet, but it makes sense in a building where robots might outnumber people.I'm at a warehouse - or customer fulfilment center (CFC) - operated by online grocery company Ocado in Luton, just outside London. You might not have heard of Ocado, but it may still have delivered your groceries. Its technology handles online orders for Kroger across 14 US states, Sobeys in Canada, and both Morrisons and its own delivery brand in the UK, with other clients acr …Read the full story at The Verge.