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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 105, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you’ve recovered from the clocks falling back, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)

This week, I’ve been reading about David Ellison and Common Crawl and Stephen Colbert, catching up on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and The Great British Baking Show, letting TikTok turn me on to a new Olivia Dean song and a new Broadway musical, testing the Boox Palma 2 Pro, spending way too many hours trying to design my new home office / podcast studio, and packing every single thing …

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