Raspberry Pi made an AI PC worth trying

Hello friends! welcome to Installer No. 41, your guide to the best and Edge-The most important things in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I hope you like gaming devices and silly spy movies, and you can also read all the old editions at Installer Homepage.)

This week I have been reading about technology/humane-ai-pin.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&sgrp=c-cb”>Hard times at Humane and as suicide squad failedlooking the cult TikTok dance documentary and Angry, trade my crappy Roku for a slightly less crappy Apple TV, listen to a ton of Wikihole, mix new mocktail recipes and try the fanpy app for everything related to fediverse.

I also have a new Raspberry Pi accessory for you, an incredibly popular movie to watch this weekend, a couple of fun tech books, some gaming gear, and much more. Let's do it.

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• ai-kit/”>The Raspberry Pi ai Kit. This is my kind of ai PC: a super simple $70 kit that runs on a Raspberry Pi 5 and gives you a surprising amount of power to perform simple processing tasks. I don't even know what I'll use this for! But I'm going to get one anyway.
• hitman. A group of very smart people have said that this comedy-action-thriller Netflix movie is one of the best movies of the year. And why not? Richard Linklater directs, Glen Powell stars, is based on a magazine article of all time. I can't wait to watch.
• dark wire. This is the best premise for a book I've ever seen: the story of the FBI's secretive tech startup, designed to track some of the world's most sophisticated criminals. TO Few places have published extractsand I can't put this book down anymore.
• Building SimCity. Two books this week! You love to see it. This is a story about SimCity, yes, but also about the history of computer simulation, with lots of accompanying photos and diagrams. One for the coffee table, for sure.
• The new Rivian R1. Same look, same original headlight design, a whole new car underneath. Much of what Rivian is doing here is clearly just to keep costs down, but this is still the electric vehicle he wants most.
• The acolyte. This is a very different type of Star Wars story, set in a very different time and place, told from a very different point of view, all of which I definitely think is a good thing. The reviews seem pretty mixed so far, but I'm excited to give it a try.
• Sequel 2.3. A cool update to Installerverse's favorite media tracking app for Apple devices. The new feature is called Magic Search and it allows you to send a URL to the app and it will automatically analyze and add it to your lists. Perfect for storing those “20 Things Coming to Netflix This Month” you see everywhere.
• The Chromatic ModRetro. The retro gaming hardware boom we're in right now is simply the best. And this, a $199 Game Boy homage by a team led by Palmer Luckey, seems excellent. It won't ship until the end of the year, but you can pre-order now.
• x-2024%252F”>The Asus ROG Ally. Talking about portable consoles! This one is much bigger, much more expensive, and much more ambitious than the Chromatic, but it also sounds pretty good. Maybe this is the first Windows handheld that can really stand up to the Steam Deck?
• Comfort zone. Fun new podcast from the MacStories team, with a trick I really like: each week, the three hosts basically have to do “tech Show and Tell” and then post a tech-related challenge to complete before the next episode. (MacStories also has another new podcast, called NPCall about portable games.
• tech/”>“How 'Wall-E' reveals our changing feelings toward technology“. I am outrageously jealous of this entire series of episodes of the Disconnected podcast, watching how they like movies His and The social network influenced the way we think about and build technology. This is the final episode of the miniseries and all of them are worth listening to.

Well, folks, it took 41 issues, but it happened: I had someone lined up for screen sharing this week, and they just didn't show up on time. So let's do something slightly different. I have recently become obsessed with Niagara Launcher for Android, which, in theory, is largely optimized for one-handed phone use, but it's also a better, quieter way to organize your home screen. In the last 10 days, I've probably redid my setup eight times. Its alot.

Niagara is so smart! It turns your apps into a customizable list, displays widgets and notifications in the same place, and lets you do a surprising number of things without having to open an app. This is how phones should work. (If you want to understand how it works, here you go a good complete video see.)

Niagara also just got a big update, especially if you pay for the Pro subscription of $10 a year or $30 for life. Your search is better now, it has some interesting new icons and there are some other small improvements too.

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

Cool, right? There are rumors and reports that we'll also be getting a ton of new customization possibilities for iOS, so we expect this to be a year full of chaotic home screen rearrangements. By the way, if you use Niagara or any other great Android launcher, I would love to see your awesome home screen setups. Send them my way. And we'll share screen again next week!

This is what Installer the community is in this week. I want to know what you're up to now too! Email [email protected] or message me on Signal, @davidpierce.11, with your recommendations for anything, and we'll feature some of our favorites here each week.

“New version of ai/”>Vibescape Just out for Apple Vision Pro – the new Oregon Coast-inspired meditation environment! “A completely new experience with this environment and Forest Ledge – pushing the boundaries of what is possible outside of Apple’s own environments.” – Gregory

“I have been using Locator a ton on my Pixel 8 Pro and MacBook Pro. I actually installed it at the beginning of April when the acquisition announcement came out, but I really moved forward with it a month ago. It is very useful to have all your messages in one app, both for work and personal.” -Josh

“Patrick Willems has a new video this week about What's next after superhero movies? so after a while I immersed myself in his channel again.” – Miguel

“A friend introduced me Guild Wars 2 a few months ago. As someone who likes the MMO concept but has always been disappointed by the execution, I can confidently say that this is one of the most underrated games ever made. A fun, free MMORPG with a healthy community and no microtransactions seemed too good to be true, but it isn't. Plus, with the recent announcements about the upcoming expansion, there are more reasons to play than ever.” – Dallin

“I found out about Microsoft's retirement, which I found exhausting and tedious. So last weekend I paved Windows and installed the bazzita Linux distribution on my gaming PC and I've been playing all my Steam and Epic games that way. It's surprisingly much better than the last time I tried Linux on the desktop. I'm sure mileage varies, but everything worked with about the same amount of tweaking needed for Windows.” – They

“He LOTR the movies are finally here returning to the cinemas. The extended editions: the only versions I will see. “I'm really excited to go see them with my friends, like I'm in high school again.” – colin

“Looking Who killed WCW? of Vice. It is a three-part miniseries that interviews Eric Bischoff and a group of wrestlers such as Kevin Nash, Konnan and Booker T about the inevitable fall of WCW. Everyone has their own thoughts on who to point out, from the Turner executives who hate wrestling to Bischoff who doesn't know what he's doing to the wrestlers who only care about themselves. “There’s only been one episode out so far, but it’s a good one.” –Brian

“The new shows Milarios of desertion and Car problems by 2nd Try premiered this week and are great, fun examples of modern media companies and the trend of creating their own streaming platforms. – Zac

“On the anime watch. I highly recommend it Delicious in the dungeon. Very fun to watch, the comic timing of the characters is excellent. “This anime is hilarious while also keeping the stakes of the story high.” -John

I've been thinking a lot this week about a blog post Andrew Bosworth, CTO of Meta, wrote recently. He talks about his “Inbox Ten” system, which basically means not trying to end each day with nothing on your plate but simply trying to find a more manageable flow of information in your life. Boz has a whole system for managing your inbox in particular, which I really like – I used to be a fan of Inbox Zero 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 brain all week, every time I get an email: “Don't let it sit in your inbox or get talked into a job that you don't think is a good use of your time.” . Words to live by.