Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer<\/em> No. 24, your guide to the best and Verge<\/em>-iest stuff in the world. (If you\u2019re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer<\/em> homepage.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This week, I\u2019ve been reading Kyle Chayka\u2019s great book about algorithms, Filterworld<\/strong><\/em>, getting nostalgic about Tecmo Bowl<\/em><\/strong>, seeing if this show<\/strong> can get me into NASCAR like Drive to Survive<\/strong><\/em> got me into Formula 1, catching up on old Conan O\u2019Brien Needs a Friend<\/strong><\/em> <\/em>episodes, spending too much time debating whether I want a Vision Pro<\/strong>, trying to make my basement look more like Peter McKinnon\u2019s studio<\/strong>, and trying desperately to figure out why everyone\u2019s so worked up about rice cookers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n I also have for you a new AI search app, a bunch of shows to watch this weekend, a deep dive into all our news-gathering options, a new podcast about the internet, and much more. Let\u2019s get into it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n (As always, the best part of Installer<\/em> is your ideas and tips. What are you into right now? What should everyone else be into right now, too? Tell me everything: installer@theverge.com. And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer<\/em>, tell them to subscribe here.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A couple of weeks ago, I asked you to share all the ways you read the news. And by \u201cnews,\u201d I mean any of the information you care about. This was mostly a selfish thing; with Artifact shutting down, I was losing one of my best sources of good links, and I didn\u2019t know whether to reinvest in Flipboard or Reddit or Apple News Plus or something else entirely. Obviously, The Verge<\/em> is the number one best news source for all things Verge<\/em>, but I understand there are other things out there, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n As always, the Installerverse delivered. Thanks to everyone who emailed, texted, posted at me, and otherwise hit me up with all your thoughts! I got a ton of new ideas. And as promised, I wanted to try and summarize and share how we all do things. So here goes:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A few of you even built your own bespoke news-gathering systems, which I loved <\/em>hearing about. An email from Jeff was my favorite: Jeff made a tool called clickthru.news<\/strong>, which has \u201cno tracking, no customization, no \u2018mark as read,\u2019 it updates itself a couple times a day, and I just read it until I get bored.\u201d It\u2019s delightful, y\u2019all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n You know what surprised me most? How few \u201cI get all my stuff from social networks\u201d answers I got. A few years ago, I suspect Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and others would have dominated this list, and now, they\u2019re basically absent. Granted, the Installerverse isn\u2019t the world, but still! Basically nothing to that effect! We\u2019ve all just kinda moved on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Personally, I\u2019ve settled into a new routine. Most days, I start in Flipboard, which I set up with a few of my interests \u2014 I can swipe from general news to tech news to Formula 1 news to news about my town, and the content\u2019s not always amazing, <\/em>but it\u2019s usually pretty solid. Then I do the big-name app roundup so many do: I check the Times, <\/em>the Post, <\/em>the Journal, <\/em>and The<\/em> Economist <\/em>(which I think has the best app by far). All my blogs and feeds go into Feedbin, which I now read mostly in the Unread app. And thanks to you all, I also downloaded Google News, and I check it a few times a day. I do like it so far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Oh, and then every once in a while, for as long as I can, I\u2019ll still open Artifact. It had so many good ideas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Fun fact: before Installer<\/em> launched, I made a prototype version of the newsletter and had Jake Kastrenakes \u2013 a deputy editor at The Verge <\/em>and the crucially necessary, endlessly patient, and thoroughly-responsible-for-its-existence editor of Installer<\/em> \u2014\u00a0share his homescreen. And then I promptly forgot that actually nobody ever saw it but me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\nThe Drop<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
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