Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 71, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If youre new here, welcome, happy long weekend to all those allowed to celebrate, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, Ive been reading about Alan Turing and OnlyFans and street booze and convenience stores, dusting off my Fortnite skills for the first time in a while, reading The Ministry of Time, working up the courage to make air fryer donuts, trying out a Sony ZV-1 M2 as my webcam, catching up on The White Lotus before season 3 starts, trying Anybox as a bookmarking / note-taking app, and seeing if the Simplify Gmail extension will make me like email more. I also have for you a place to watch all the best SNL sketches, a great new pair of Beats headphones, a new drawing tablet for creators of all kinds, a fun-sounding sci-fi movie on Apple TV Plus, and much more.Oh, and thanks to everyone who sent in music thoughts last week! I got a ton of good responses, and to be completely honest, I havent been able to properly read and respond to everything yet. That means next weeks gonna be a big, huge, music-setup extravaganza, and that means if you have thoughts on music services, favorite music gadgets, apps you love, a deep love for Victrolas, or anything else, youve still got time to tell me all about it. Hit me up!All right, big streaming weekend ahead. Lets do this.(As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What do you want to know more about? What awesome tricks do you know that everyone else should? What app should everyone be using? Tell me everything: installer@theverge.com. And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer, tell them to subscribe here.)The DropSNL50. I am very excited for the the concert on Saturday night, but I might be even more excited about this Peacock landing page. Its just playlist after playlist of iconic sketches, monologues, and musical performances you could easily spend your whole weekend just watching these clips. Beats Powerbeats Pro 2. All the useful Apple-y features of AirPods Pros, but in cooler colors and with earhooks that actually keep the buds in my ears. I bought a pair in the (slightly boring but thats the point) quick sand color, and Im very happy with my purchase. I do wish the mic was a little better, though.The Witcher: Sirens of The Deep. I havent really dug into the whole Witcher Netflix-verse, after hearing so many mixed things about the show. But this, an animated movie with none of the baggage but all of the cool monster-hunting, sounds like my kind of thing.The Wacom Intuos Pro. Easily the biggest thing to happen to drawing tablets in, I dont know, a decade? I like the idea of putting the controls at the top and making them more tactile, and I like that theyre a little smaller and slimmer, but I do wonder how many yearslong workflows are going to need some time to adjust. The Gorge. I like the premise of this movie so much two people on either side of a huge, deep, fog-filled gorge, tasked with protecting the world from whatever is down there, and also something something love story that I dont really care that the reviews arent great. (Or that Apple TV Plus movies mostly suck.) Im here for this one.Apple TV Plus for Android. And oh, look, a new way to watch The Gorge! Apple obviously timed this launch for Severances comeback and the upcoming MLS season, but its a big win for subscribers and a long overdue move from Apple.Apple Cider Vinegar. On Netflix, this is the rare show my wife and I are equally into about influencer culture and the lengths people will go to get likes. Along with An Update on Our Family and a few others, were building a deeply bleak genre here.Is This Seat Taken?RollerCoaster Tycoon is fun and funny and extremely easy to get lost in. Its sucking me in the way Balatro did, which is terrifying and great.Routine for Android. Ive been watching Routine for a while, and its shaping into a really powerful (if slightly convoluted) app for notes, tasks, calendars, and more. The Android app isnt quite fully featured yet, but itll get there, and its one to try out.I play with a lot of gadgets. (Perk of the job.) But Sean Hollister? Sean Hollister plays with a lot of gadgets. Whether hes toying with stuff for his awesome video series or taking things apart with wildly complicated Apple tools, I am perpetually jealous of his gadget adventures. Like, just the other day: double magnetic rings! Never seen em before, want em real bad!I asked Sean to share his homescreen with us, because I figured Id probably discover a bunch of cool new stuff that way, too. Heres his homescreen, plus some info on the apps he uses and why:The phone: Galaxy Z Flip 5.The wallpaper: The bog-standard stock wallpaper. I dont even know 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.Youre looking at the homescreen of an information junkie in transition the clues are all there. First, Im down to just 36 percent battery at 4:25PM and Ive barely used this phone today so Im actively looking for my next phone.Second, Ive got four social media clients up top because Ive been hedging my bets on which to keep you might notice Ive got notifications from X, but no X on the homescreen, because I only still follow a handful of accounts there for news! Instead, The Verge gets its own dedicated shortcut.Third, the reason Signal and Messenger are in an ugly drawer together and Facebook has 54 unreads is because Im trying to reduce my support for Meta after certain, ahem, societal shifts, but havent fully managed it yet.The key apps on this homescreen are actually MyFitnessPal, which Im using almost every day just as a calorie counter to actually lose weight; Evernote, where far too much of my memory lives; and Home Assistant for controlling things around my house. Of course the first two apps are getting far too bloated with unwanted features, and my smart home has a tendency to break!Not pictured: Pokmon TCG Pocket, which I recently moved to the fifth homescreen to reduce addiction.I also asked Sean to share a few things hes into right now. Heres what he sent back:Oh, its catch-up season for me! Im playing 1000xResist, which made Polygons best of 2024, and watching The OA, which I missed the first time around. I guess theyre similar in a way: theyre both bizarre works of science fiction with intriguing, nuanced, relatable villains.Oh, and fairly new K-drama When The Phone Rings, whose first episode absolutely bored me until I saw how cleverly they hid the twist, and now its one of the more exciting ones Ive watched. Dont Google it if you can help it, even a one-sentence synopsis will spoil episode 1.Meanwhile, I cant get enough of the Game Boy modding antics of Hairo Satoh, aka haihaisb, who has repeatedly proven that everythings better with an extra Game Boy Advance SP screen. If youre reading this, Satoh-san, we want to interview you about how you do it!CrowdsourcedHeres what the Installer community is into this week. I want to know what youre into right now as well! Email installer@theverge.com or message me on Signal @davidpierce.11 with your recommendations for anything and everything, and well feature some of our favorites here every week. For more great recommendations, check out the replies to this post on Threads and this post on Bluesky.Trying to stay sane by limiting my consumption of news and screen time amidst the chaos going around. Reading The Wager from David Grann, the author of Killers of the Flower Moon. Essentially about conflicting reports of a real-life Lord of the Flies that transpires in the 1700s. Very interesting! ColinWe just started watching Paradise over here and its fantastic. JulesAs the topic of digital self-determination is more and more a topic (yes, here in Germany too), I was looking into different OSes for my mobile phone. I found a rather good working alternative to Googles Android and iOS which is called /e/OS. It works really well, and I can still use all my apps. And they sell phones with pre-installed /e/. ChristianPlayed a lot of this game called Hole. The name is unfortunate, but its cheap and a very good time. SophieI dont know if a lot of people care about this but Notion and TickTick have a two-way integration and its great!! I still feel its limited in functionality because I can only send one list at a time, which doesnt make sense, and its limited to three lists. BarryFound some joy on the Internet this week with this video. Its playing the Star Trek TNG theme song as if it was blaring from the Enterprise itself! MikeRecently downloaded the National Film Board app and its a delight. Get free access to the largest collection of Canadian films online. No subscription or ads. ChristineAfter Instagram showed me video recordings from BBCs Im Sorry I Havent a Clue I delved into old episodes. If you appreciate British humo(u)r and can stand some musical parts, its gloriously fun. I am back to being the crazy person laughing out loud on public transport. SinanI recently discovered Bear Blog, its a cool minimalistic blogging platform with a lot of customization and a Discovery page that feels a little like Hacker News. SammieSigning offYou know what might be my favorite new-ish thing on the internet? Reddit Answers. Ive been using it a lot recently, and Ive found it to be a basically unparalleled system for getting lots of recommendations. What are some great, lesser-known brands of dark chocolate got me a long list of great ideas, with links to relevant posts and comments. Are Bose or Sony headphones better offered a pretty cogent back-and-forth debate. What are the most popular conspiracy theories about Severance sent me down an hourslong rabbit hole.As with all AI search, my rules are simple: nothing with high stakes, no believing the answers without clicking the links. But the more I use Answers, the more Im convinced theres something real here. And the more Severance theories I start to believe.See you next week!See More: