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Hi, pals! Welcome to Installer No. 113, your information to the perfect and Verge-iest stuff on this planet. (If you’re new right here, welcome, please ship scorching cocoa to my freezing-cold home, and likewise you may learn all of the previous editions on the Installer homepage.)
This week, I’ve been studying about private garbage collectors and vintage watches and My Favorite Murder, watching The Running Man (which was not nice) and Sinners (which was extraordinarily nice), giving my Ray-Ban Meta good glasses one other whirl, nostalgia-tripping my manner via The Format’s new album, sitting within the viewers for the primary Star Search on Netflix, lastly studying Dungeon Crawler Carl as a result of roughly 40,000 of you advisable it, and spending manner too many hours wrestling with airplane Wi-Fi. Life is simply too quick for airplane Wi-Fi, my pals.
Bit of an abbreviated difficulty this week — it’s a brief week, and has additionally been an unusually bananas one each personally and professionally. But an excessive amount of good things to only take the week off! So think about this an Installer Lite. A Mini Installer. A “bug fixes and performance improvements” replace, if you’ll. But we’ve obtained a smartphone you should try, a brand new soundtrack to work to, some good ideas on Hollywood, and extra. Let’s do it.
(As all the time, the perfect a part of Installer is your concepts and ideas. What are you watching / listening to / taking part in / shopping for / studying by the fireplace this week? Tell me all the pieces: [email protected]. And if you recognize another person who would possibly take pleasure in Installer, ahead it to them and inform them to subscribe right here.)
- Todoist Ramble. This is one in all my favourite AI issues on the web, and it simply got here out of beta. You simply begin an audio recording and mind dump all the pieces in your head, and Todoist does an impressively good job of turning it into tasks, duties, and deadlines. An ideal technique to begin the workday, for those who ask me.
- The NexPhone. One telephone, three working methods. This midrange Android telephone (which is greater than a decade within the making) additionally comes with Linux and Windows put in, so you may in idea use it as your main pc as effectively. It gained’t ship for some time, and I do have some questions. But I like that this telephone exists.
- Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! A two-part, star-studded HBO documentary about one of many funniest, most necessary comedians of our time. Watch the Judd Apatow-directed sequence, then use it as an excuse to observe Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein and Spaceballs and all the opposite unbelievable work Brooks has performed.
- Crossplay. The latest New York Times phrase sport, and its first multiplayer one! Big win for Wordle-ing {couples} in all places. It’s principally Words with Friends with nicer design and fewer advertisements, and I imply that as a reasonably excessive praise. I simply want it didn’t require downloading a separate app.
- MIO: Memories in Orbit. I’ve seen some critiques placing this sport alongside Silksong and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which is outrageously excessive indie-game reward. In addition to being completely beautiful, it seems to be gleefully, punishingly tough, and I believe that’s going to work for lots of people.
- The Sony LinkBuds Clip. I’ve began to see this type of clip-on, open-ear earbuds completely in all places, and I sort of like it. Sony’s noise canceling and microphones are usually among the many greatest you’ll discover, so I’m curious to see what it may do with this new form.
- TR-49. I like a great figure-out-the-machine sport (Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is one in all my all-time faves), and this can be a nice one. You’re dropped in entrance of a WWII-era pc and have to determine the best way to use it. And what’s happening. I’ve been taking part in the iOS model, and it’s killing my productiveness.
- “Joe Rogan Experience #2440 – Matt Damon & Ben Affleck.” This is the primary, and doubtless final, time I’ll ever suggest a JRE episode right here, however Affleck and Damon are simply so good about Hollywood, AI, cash, and the way forward for leisure. That viral Affleck-on-AI clip is simply a part of the great things.
- Nightshift. Kurzgesagt is without doubt one of the Installerverse’s favourite issues on YouTube, and their new, considerably darker channel is already off to a powerful begin. I sort of hope each video is about pirates.
Here’s what the Installer neighborhood is into this week. I need to know what you’re into proper now as effectively! Email [email protected] or message me on Signal — @davidpierce.11 — along with your suggestions for something and all the pieces, and we’ll function a few of our favorites right here each week. For much more nice suggestions, try the replies to this post on Threads and this post on Bluesky.
“A friend recently introduced us to Boomerang Fu. As adorable anthropomorphic foods, you hurl boomerangs to neatly slice each other in madcap local multiplayer chaos rounds. Remaining the last food standing as the various power-ups stack up becomes increasingly hilarious. Our whole family loves it.” — E.E.
“Clawdbot. It runs on your machine and you can message it using Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, or even iMessage, whichever is most accessible to you — and it can do anything you’d expect from something like Claude Code or ChatGPT Codex. It can also connect to a bunch of other tools, so it can interact with nearly every aspect of your digital identity. It can even rewrite its own code if you ask it to, which can get into some dangerous territory if you’re not careful.” — Drake
“Going on two weeks with Bazzite after switching from Windows on my main gaming PC!
Zero regrets, has been solid.” — Kolin
“I’m convinced musicians have the best gadgets. Right now, I’m putting hours upon hours into the Dirtywave M8, which is the most compact, powerful music-making tool. It’s also made by a single person. It even comes with a hex key, welcoming you to repair and mod it yourself. I think more people should know about it. I’ve also had my share of fun with the OP-XY from Teenage Engineering, but it felt too restricted in an ‘Apple’ way, as opposed to the geeky freedom of the M8.” — Jakub
“Check out Hex for on-device LLM voice dictation, completely for free. Hold Alt, talk, and your words appear.” — Andrew
“I’m ready for a cozy weekend playing the Legacy of the Forge DLC for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. It’s so nice to see Henry (the main character) become a homeowner after such a rough ride navigating the politics of medieval Bohemia.” — Alex
“I’m really enjoying Alma as a food-tracking tool. It’s a great use of AI, where I can just casually type out what I’m eating and it will figure out the macros.” — Michael
“Currently obsessed with The Iron Snail on YouTube. Best content on clothing I have seen in years.” — Nishant
“I held out for a while, but I eventually gave in and bought PowerWash Simulator 2. As a result, I’ve completely abandoned all real chores around the house.” — Nic
Life is busy proper now. Life is busy on a regular basis, for all of us, I believe. In my limitless quest to rethink my relationship with screens and know-how, I’ve discovered that I always don’t do, or learn, or watch issues I need to, just because they really feel like an excessive amount of dedication. I can simply have a look at TikTok or Instagram for 5 minutes, but when I’m going to observe a film or tuck right into a e-book, it appears like a entire factor.
But pals, I’ve had an epiphany: You truly eat virtually something 5 minutes at a time. The final couple of weeks, I’ve watched a bunch of films in 20-minute chunks whereas my child napped on high of me. I’ve learn a number of books a few pages at a time. I’m slowly coaching myself to learn two pages as an alternative of opening TikTok whereas I wait in line; I’m about to observe each James Bond film ever, one nap at a time. I nonetheless love spending hours with a great film or good e-book, however life doesn’t all the time enable it. Everything may be bite-sized! Bite-size all of the issues!
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