Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 71, your guideline to the champion and Verge-iest worldly successful the world. (If you’re caller here, welcome, happy agelong play to each those allowed to celebrate, and besides you tin publication each the aged editions astatine the Installer homepage.)
This week, I’ve been reference astir Alan Turing and OnlyFans and street booze and convenience stores, dusting disconnected my Fortnite skills for the first clip successful a while, reference The Ministry of Time, working up the courageousness to make air fryer donuts, trying retired a Sony ZV-1 M2 arsenic my webcam, catching up connected The White Lotus earlier play 3 starts, trying Anybox arsenic a bookmarking / note-taking app, and seeing if the Simplify Gmail hold will make maine for illustration email more.
I besides person for you a spot to watch each the champion SNL sketches, a awesome caller brace of Beats headphones, a caller drafting tablet for creators of each kinds, a fun-sounding sci-fi movie connected Apple TV Plus, and overmuch more.
Oh, and acknowledgment to everyone who sent successful euphony thoughts past week! I sewage a ton of bully responses, and to beryllium wholly honest, I haven’t been capable to decently publication and respond to everything yet. That intends adjacent week’s gonna beryllium a big, huge, music-setup extravaganza, and that intends if you person thoughts connected euphony services, favourite euphony gadgets, apps you love, a heavy emotion for Victrolas, aliases thing else, you’ve still sewage clip to show maine each astir it. Hit maine up!
All right, large streaming play ahead. Let’s do this.
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- SNL50. I americium very excited for the three-hour SNL anniversary show connected Sunday, and moreover the performance connected Saturday night, but I mightiness beryllium moreover much excited astir this Peacock landing page. It’s conscionable playlist aft playlist of iconic sketches, monologues, and philharmonic performances — you could easy walk your full play conscionable watching these clips.
- Beats Powerbeats Pro 2. All the useful Apple-y features of AirPods Pros, but successful cooler colors and pinch earhooks that really support the buds successful my ears. I bought a brace successful the (slightly boring but that’s the point) “quick sand” color, and I’m very happy pinch my purchase. I do wish the mic was a small better, though.
- The Witcher: Sirens of The Deep. I haven’t really dug into the full Witcher Netflix-verse, aft proceeding truthful galore mixed things astir the show. But this, an animated movie pinch nary of the baggage but all of the cool monster-hunting, sounds for illustration my benignant of thing.
- The Wacom Intuos Pro. Easily the biggest point to hap to drafting tablets in, I don’t know, a decade? I for illustration the thought of putting the controls astatine the top and making them much tactile, and I for illustration that they’re a small smaller and slimmer, but I do wonderment really galore yearslong workflows are going to request immoderate clip to adjust.
- The Gorge. I for illustration the premise of this movie truthful overmuch — 2 group connected either broadside of a huge, deep, fog-filled gorge, tasked pinch protecting the world from immoderate is down there, and besides thing something emotion communicative — that I don’t really attraction that the reviews aren’t great. (Or that Apple TV Plus movies mostly suck.) I’m present for this one.
- Apple TV Plus for Android. And oh, look, a caller measurement to watch The Gorge! Apple evidently timed this motorboat for Severance’s comeback and the upcoming MLS season, but it’s a large triumph for subscribers and a agelong overdue move from Apple.
- Apple Cider Vinegar. On Netflix, this is the uncommon show my woman and I are arsenic into — astir influencer civilization and the lengths group will spell to get likes. Along pinch An Update connected Our Family and a fewer others, we’re building a profoundly bleak genre here.
- Is This Seat Taken? All you tin play correct now is simply a Steam demo, but this puzzler crippled — which is for illustration Guess Who meets RollerCoaster Tycoon — is nosy and funny and highly easy to get mislaid in. It’s sucking maine successful the measurement Balatro did, which is terrifying and great.
- Routine for Android. I’ve been watching Routine for a while, and it’s shaping into a really powerful (if somewhat convoluted) app for notes, tasks, calendars, and more. The Android app isn’t rather afloat featured yet, but it’ll get there, and it’s 1 to effort out.
I play pinch a batch of gadgets. (Perk of the job.) But Sean Hollister? Sean Hollister plays pinch a lot of gadgets. Whether he’s toying pinch worldly for his awesome video bid aliases taking things isolated pinch wildly analyzable Apple tools, I americium perpetually suspicious of his gadget adventures. Like, conscionable the different day: double magnetic rings! Never seen ‘em before, want ‘em existent bad!
I asked Sean to stock his homescreen pinch us, because I figured I’d astir apt observe a bunch of cool caller worldly that way, too. Here’s his homescreen, positive immoderate info connected the apps he uses and why:
The phone: Galaxy Z Flip 5.
The wallpaper: The bog-standard banal wallpaper. I don’t moreover cognize if it has a name.
The apps: Openvibe, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, NewsBlur, Yelp, Google Photos, The Verge, Slack, Evernote, MyFitnessPal, Discord, Chrome, Gmail, Google Calendar, Home Assistant, Phone, Messages, Camera, Google Maps.
You’re looking astatine the homescreen of an accusation junkie successful modulation — the clues are each there. First, I’m down to conscionable 36 percent artillery astatine 4:25PM and I’ve hardly utilized this telephone today… truthful I’m actively looking for my adjacent phone.
Second, I’ve sewage 4 societal media clients up apical because I’ve been hedging my bets connected which to support — you mightiness announcement I’ve sewage notifications from X, but nary X connected the homescreen, because I only still travel a fistful of accounts location for news! Instead, The Verge gets its ain dedicated shortcut.
Third, the logic Signal and Messenger are successful an disfigured drawer together and Facebook has 54 unreads is because I’m trying to trim my support for Meta aft certain, ahem, societal shifts, but haven’t afloat managed it yet.
The cardinal apps connected this homescreen are really MyFitnessPal, which I’m utilizing almost each time conscionable arsenic a calorie antagonistic to really suffer weight; Evernote, wherever acold excessively overmuch of my representation lives; and Home Assistant for controlling things astir my house. Of people the first 2 apps are getting acold excessively bloated pinch unwanted features, and my smart location has a inclination to break!
Not pictured: Pokémon TCG Pocket, which I precocious moved to the fifth homescreen to trim addiction.
I besides asked Sean to stock a fewer things he’s into correct now. Here’s what he sent back:
- Oh, it’s catch-up play for me! I’m playing 1000xResist, which made Polygon’s champion of 2024, and watching The OA, which I missed the first clip around. I conjecture they’re akin successful a way: they’re some bizarre useful of subject fabrication pinch intriguing, nuanced, relatable villains.
- Oh, and reasonably caller K-drama When The Phone Rings, whose first section perfectly saturated maine until I saw really cleverly they hid the twist, and now it’s 1 of the much breathtaking ones I’ve watched. Don’t Google it if you tin thief it, moreover a one-sentence synopsis will spoil section 1.
- Meanwhile, I can’t get capable of the Game Boy modding antics of Hairo Satoh, aka haihaisb, who has many times proven that everything’s amended pinch an other Game Boy Advance SP screen. If you’re reference this, Satoh-san, we want to question and reply you astir really you do it!
Here’s what the Installer organization is into this week. I want to cognize what you’re into correct now arsenic well! Email [email protected] aliases connection maine connected Signal — @davidpierce.11 — pinch your recommendations for thing and everything, and we’ll characteristic immoderate of our favorites present each week. For much awesome recommendations, cheque retired the replies to this station connected Threads and this station connected Bluesky.
“Trying to enactment sane by limiting my depletion of news and surface clip amidst the chaos going around. Reading The Wager from David Grann, the writer of Killers of the Flower Moon. Essentially astir conflicting reports of a real-life Lord of the Flies that transpires successful the 1700s. Very interesting!” – Colin
“We conscionable started watching Paradise complete present and it’s fantastic.” – Jules
“As the taxable of integer self-determination is much and much a taxable (yes, present successful Germany too), I was looking into different OSes for my mobile phone. I recovered a alternatively bully moving replacement to Google’s Android and iOS which is called /e/OS. It useful really well, and I tin still usage each my apps. And they sell phones pinch pre-installed /e/.” – Christian
“Played a batch of this crippled called Hole. The sanction is unfortunate, but it’s inexpensive and a very bully time.” – Sophie
“I don’t cognize if a batch of group attraction astir this but Notion and TickTick person a two-way integration and it’s great!! I still consciousness it’s constricted successful functionality because I tin only nonstop 1 database astatine a time, which doesn’t make sense, and it’s constricted to 3 lists.” – Barry
“Found immoderate joyousness connected the Internet this week pinch this video. It’s playing the Star Trek TNG taxable opus arsenic if it was blaring from the Enterprise itself!” – Mike
“Recently downloaded the National Film Board app and it’s a delight. ‘Get free entree to the largest postulation of Canadian films online. No subscription aliases ads.’” – Christine
“After Instagram showed maine video recordings from BBC’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue I delved into aged episodes. If you admit British humo(u)r and tin guidelines immoderate philharmonic parts, it’s gloriously fun. I americium backmost to being the crazy personification laughing retired large connected nationalist transport.” – Sinan
“I precocious discovered Bear Blog, it’s a cool minimalistic blogging level pinch a batch of customization and a Discovery page that feels a small for illustration Hacker News.” – Sammie
You cognize what mightiness beryllium my favourite new-ish point connected the internet? Reddit Answers. I’ve been utilizing it a batch recently, and I’ve recovered it to beryllium a fundamentally unparalleled strategy for getting tons of recommendations. “What are immoderate great, lesser-known brands of acheronian chocolate” sewage maine a agelong database of awesome ideas, pinch links to applicable posts and comments. “Are Bose aliases Sony headphones better” offered a beautiful cogent back-and-forth debate. “What are the astir celebrated conspiracy theories astir Severance” sent maine down an hourslong rabbit hole.
As pinch each AI search, my rules are simple: thing pinch precocious stakes, nary believing the answers without clicking the links. But the much I usage Answers, the much I’m convinced there’s thing existent here. And the much Severance theories I commencement to believe.
See you adjacent week!
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