Hi friends! It's cold, it's Thursday, it's that time: I'm putting together this week's Installer and want to know everything you're into right now. What are you reading / watching / playing / building / doing by the fire this week? Tell me so I can tell everyone! (And subscribe to Installer!)
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Finally found out how to use Obsidian for saving text of various articles: insert this in 'note content' bit of template
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Another great novel from his hand, about colonialism, biodiversity, friendship and, yes, Artificial Intelligence(!).
https://www.richardpowers.net/playground/
(Edited 17.32 via @skeetsapp.com)
https://bsky.app/profile/pleasedontrain.com/post/3lbdmbj43hk2f
https://stevesimpson.com/crazy-motors
They're metal (AF) and their looks are refreshingly cool with creative designs. I can't even pretend I want to buy them all for our kid - my wife already knows.
Standard Notes is well put together and was recently acquired by Proton.
It does most things that Notion does and is ultra concerned with security to the point it's also a viable password / MFA store.
Was my most used, but doesn't work on Android 14 :(
Watching: Dadandan, Star Wars Skeleton Crew
Playing: BALATRO, Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D remix
Building: These transforming, dino, lego kits.
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807600580179.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.16.7bc91802g84YrN&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa
I ended up being reduced to a monke pressing tab repeatedly 5 times for the thing to just fill out all boilerplate for me. It is terrifyingly good, as long as you don’t mind having your code sent to the mothership.
Rereading Way Of Kings to prepare for 4th book in Stormlight Archive.
Listening to Red Dead Redemption 2 soundtrack and it’s taken me down a Daniel Lanois rabbit hole.
Trying to find the best fishing mini games
Mozilla's tool for spotting fake amazon reviews is excellent. You can get the best use out of it through the chrome extension. It automatically blocks sponsored products from amazon search and gives a trust score for the product reviews and even the sellers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/s/z7hTCTsHvP
I can block time wasting websites on my Mac, iPad and iPhone all at the same time on customizable, schedule.