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An AI computer you’ll want to tinker with

By The AI Sckool
An AI computer you’ll want to tinker with

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Hello friends! Welcome to Installer No. 41, Your Guide to the Best and Edge-The worst thing in the world. (If you’re novel here, welcome, I hope you like gaming gadgets and silly spy movies, and you can read all the ancient issues at Installer Home.)

I read about this week difficult times at Humane AND How Suicide Squad flapwatching iconic TikTok dance documentary AND Bad, I’m replacing my crappy Roku with a slightly less crappy Apple TV, I listen a lot WikiHole, mixing novel cocktail recipes and testing them Phanpy app for everything related to Fediverse.

I also have a novel Raspberry Pi accessory for you, a hugely popular movie to watch this weekend, some captivating tech books, some gaming gear, and more. Let’s do it.

(As always, the best part Installer these are your ideas and tips. What are you doing at present? What should everyone be interested in as much as you are? Tell me everything: send an email to installer@theverge.com, share @imdavidpierce on Threads or find me on Signal @davidpierce.11. And if you know someone else who might like this Installertell them to subscribe here.)

  • Raspberry Pi AI kit. This is my kind of AI computer: a super plain $70 kit that works with a Raspberry Pi 5 and provides a surprising amount of power for plain processing tasks. I don’t even know what I’ll exploit it for! But I’ll get one anyway.
  • Killer. A group of very sharp people decided that this Netflix comedy-action-thriller is one of the best movies of the year. Why not? Directed by Richard Linklater, starring Glen Powell a timeless magazine article. I can’t wait to watch it.
  • Dark wire. This is the best book material I’ve ever seen: the story of the FBI’s secret tech startup tasked with tracking down the world’s most sophisticated criminals. AND few places To have published fragmentsand I can’t put this book down anymore.
  • Building SimCity. Two books this week! You love watching it. This is the whole story about SimCity, yes, but also the history of computer simulations, with lots of photos and diagrams. Definitely one for the coffee table.
  • New Rivian R1. Same look, same striking headlight design, and a completely novel car underneath. Most of Rivian’s actions are purely aimed at cutting costs, but this is still the EV I most desire.
  • Acolyte. It’s a completely different kind of Star Wars story, set in a completely different time and place, told from a completely different point of view, which I definitely think is a good thing. The reviews seem to be quite mixed so far, but I’m excited to give it a whirl.
  • Continuation of 2.3. A very nice update to Installerverse’s favorite media tracking app for Apple devices. The novel feature is called Magic Lookup and allows you to send a URL to the application and then automatically parse it and include it in lists. Perfect for jotting down those “20 things coming to Netflix this month” that you see everywhere.
  • Chromatic ModRetro. The retro gaming hardware boom we’re in right now is just the best thing. And this is what a tribute to the $199 Game Boy looks like from the team led by Palmer Luckey Great. Shipping won’t take place until the end of the year, but you can already place pre-orders.
  • Asus ROG Ally X. Speaking of portable consoles! This one is much bigger, much more costly and much more ambitious than Chromatic – but it also sounds pretty good. Perhaps this is the first Windows handheld that can truly take on the Steam Deck?
  • Comfort zone. A fun novel podcast from the MacStories crew with a trick that I really like: each week, three hosts simply have to do a “Tech Show and Tell” and then set a technology challenge to complete before the next episode. (MacStories also has another novel podcast called NPCsall about portable gaming.
  • “How ‘Wall-E’ Reveals Our Changing Feelings About Technology.” I am outrageously jealous of this entire series of episodes from Inactive podcast, looking at how people like the videos Her AND Social network has influenced the way we think about and build technology. This is the last episode of the miniseries and they are worth listening to.

Well, friends, it took 41 issues, but it happened: I had someone lined up for Screen Share this week, but I just couldn’t get them together in time. So let’s do something a little different. I’ve been obsessed with it lately Niagara launcher for Android, which is theoretically largely optimized for one-handed exploit of the phone, but is also simply a better and quieter way to organize your home screen. I’ve probably reconfigured eight times in the last 10 days. That’s a lot.

Niagara is just sharp! It turns your apps into a customizable list, displays widgets and notifications right there, and lets you do a shocking number of things without opening the app. This is how phones should work. (If you want to understand how it works, here it is good, accurate movie to watch.)

Niagara also just got a massive update, especially if you pay $10 a year or $30 lifetime Pro subscription. Its search is now better, it has some frosty novel icons, and there are a few other minor improvements.

While tinkering with my own home screen, I collected some Niagara setups that I like and thought I’d share a few. You can do so many things with this launcher!

Frigid, right? There are rumors and reports that we’ll be getting a lot of novel customization options for iOS as well, so we’re hoping this will be a year full of confused home screen reorganizations. By the way, if you’re using Niagara or another awesome Android launcher, I’d love to see your ill home screen setups. Send them my way. We’ll be back to regular screen sharing next week!

Here’s what Installer the community is engaged this week. I also want to know what you are doing now! E-mail installer@theverge.com or message me on Signal – @davidpierce.11 ​​​​– with your recommendations on everything, and we’ll feature some of our favorites here each week.

“New version Vibration Apple Vision Pro has just been released – a new meditation environment inspired by the Oregon Coast! An entirely new experience in this environment and the Forest Ledge environment – ​​pushing the boundaries of what is possible outside of Apple environments.” –Grzegorz

“I used Beeper I’m drowning on my Pixel 8 Pro and MacBook Pro. I actually installed it in early April when the acquisition announcement came out, but it really picked up steam a month ago. It’s just really handy to have all your messages in one app, both work and personal.” –Josh

“Patrick Willems has a novel video this week on the topic what’s next after superhero movies so after a while I came back to his channel.” -Mike

“A friend introduced me Guild Wars 2 a few months ago. As someone who likes the concept of an MMO but always feels let down by the execution, I can confidently say that this is one of the most underrated games ever made. A fun, free-to-play MMORPG with a healthy community and no microtransactions sounded too good to be true, but it’s not. Plus, with recent announcements about the next expansion, there are more reasons to play than ever before.” – Dallin

“Hearing about Microsoft’s discontinuation was exhausting and tedious for me. So last weekend I broke down Windows and installed it Bazsite Linux distro on my gaming PC and I play all my Steam and Epic games this way. It’s surprisingly a lot better than the last time I tried Linux on a desktop computer. I’m sure your mileage varies, but it all worked with about the same amount of tweaking that Windows requires.” – Les

” VILLAIN there are movies after all returns to cinemas. Extended Editions – The only versions I will watch. I’m so happy that I can watch them with my friends like I did in high school.” – Colin

“Novel performances Thousands with Dropout and Problems with the stroller from 2nd Try premiered this week and are both fun and great examples of newfangled media companies and the trend of creating your own streaming platforms. – Zach

“Whilst watching anime. I would highly recommend Delicious in Dungeon. It’s very enjoyable to watch, the characters’ comedic timing is excellent. This anime is entertaining and at the same time puts a high standard on the plot.” – John

I’ve been thinking a lot this week post on a blog Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s CTO, recently wrote. He talks about his “Inbox Ten” system, which basically means you don’t have to stop on it every day Thread on my plate, but instead I’m just trying to find a more manageable flow of information in my life. Boz in particular has a whole system for managing his inbox, which I really like – I was an Inbox Zero fanatic and would get stressed out when things were in there, but I like his slightly less drastic approach. And this phrase has been popping into my head all week, every time I receive an email: “Don’t let this sit in your inbox and don’t be talked into taking a job that you don’t think is a good exploit of Your time”. Words worth living by.

The AI Sckool
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