Now we can all wake up like Mario

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 56, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) 

This week, I've been reading about Bill Lawrence's TV shows and the massively powerful crypto lobby and the wild world of plankton, listening to Ed Helms narrate the excellent Snafu podcast, playing an alarming amount of both Balatro and Retro Goal, trying to get back in the habit of making overnight oats, and taking every single one of my phone calls with the excellent mic on the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. 

I also have for you the coolest alarm clock I can remember, a splashy new Bitcoin documentary, a new monster-taming game people love, a tiny but amazing Google Docs update, and much more. Not the busiest and most exciting week of all time, if I'm honest, but still lots of fun stuff to get to. Let's do it.

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The Drop

Alarmo. Leave it to Nintendo to build the most charming alarm clock of all time. No, it's not the high-tech new gadget some people were hoping for. But a super configurable sleep tracking clock that uses Mario noises and retro animations to get your butt out of bed? I'm obviously sold.Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery. Another day, another splashy reveal that "we've found Satoshi Nakamoto!" Color me deeply, deeply skeptical. But even that aside, this doc does a good job of arguing that Nakamoto - and Bitcoin in general - matters.Microsoft OneDrive. OneDrive has always been, like, fine. But if Microsoft really has made it faster, improved search, and finally shipped a more photos-focused mobile app, it might finally be a worthy competitor to Google Drive and Dropbox. (Low bar, but hey.)Mastodon 4.3. I've found it difficult in recent months to really care about Mastodon, which just seemed like it wasn't ready to be the next big thing. But I think this update, meant to make the platform easier to use but especially meant to make it easier to find people to follow, is pretty exciting.Miraibo Go. People keep comparing this open-world monster-taming game to Palworld -  because it appears to be super fun and bonkers and also because it doesn't not look like Pokémon, you know? Either way, I anticipate seeing a lot of people capturing Miras this weekend."Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information." Chris Person, a writer at Aftermath and friend of The Verge, is right: if you want the real real on almost anything, the best place to go is a forum. And he put together a truly epic list of great forums, which I will be spending too much time in for the foreseeable future.Piece By Piece. Even if you don't care at all about Pharrell Williams, you should watch a few minutes of this Morgan Neville-directed doc, which is entirely animated with Legos. (If you're going to do that… maybe wait 'til it hits streaming.) The trailer alone makes me want to watch hours of this style.Goodnotes. If you're the write-by-hand type, Goodnotes is one of the best apps out there. And it's cool to see the company bring AI to the mix - it's doing some of the same search, handwriting improvement, and equation-solving stuff that is so cool in Apple Notes.Dookie Demastered. The silliest, most delightful thing of the week: Green Day took its 30-year-old masterpiece of a record and tried to make it work on, like, an electric toothbrush. Am I willing to pay $79 for a Big Mouth Billy Bass that plays the song "Basket Case"? OF COURSE I AM.Google Docs tabs. This is one of those tiny organizational things - splitting a Google Docs doc into tabs instead of just a billion pages - that is going to make my life so much easier. Now can Google just make the mobile app good? Please?