Toy Story has the right take on tech
Toy Story has the right take on tech
《玩具总动员》对科技的解读恰到好处
Plus, in this week’s Installer: A better way to hold your phone, Snap’s new spectacles, and much more. 在本周的《Installer》中，我们将探讨：一种更好的手机握持方式、Snap 的新款智能眼镜，以及更多精彩内容。
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 133, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. 朋友们好！欢迎来到第 133 期《Installer》，这是你探索全球最棒、最“Verge”风格产品的指南。
This week, I’ve been reading about Sam Bankman-Fried and PE Guy and admin nights, listening to Paul McCartney on Song Exploder, trudging through the bugs of the iOS 27 beta in order to use the good new Siri, once again trying and failing to switch to YouTube Music, free trial-hopping my way through the World Cup, finally upgrading my camera setup with the Elgato Prompter, and seeing if this strange, cheap headband can help me fall asleep faster. So far… inconclusive. 本周，我阅读了关于 Sam Bankman-Fried、PE Guy 和管理之夜的内容，在《Song Exploder》节目中听了保罗·麦卡特尼的访谈，为了体验好用的新 Siri 而忍受 iOS 27 测试版的各种 Bug，再次尝试切换到 YouTube Music 但以失败告终，通过各种免费试用看完了世界杯，终于用 Elgato Prompter 升级了我的摄像设备，还试了试那个奇怪又便宜的头带能不能帮我更快入睡。目前来看……效果尚不明确。
I also have for you the new Pixar movie worth your time, a better way to hold your phone, a nice upgrade for Android users, a lovely new Windows laptop, and much more. Let’s do this. 我还为你准备了值得一看的皮克斯新片、一种更好的手机握持方式、Android 用户的贴心升级、一款精美的 Windows 笔记本电脑，以及更多内容。让我们开始吧。
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Toy Story 5. The bad guy is an iPad! I love it. And by all accounts, the movie completely works both as a story and as a thoughtful look at the real pros and cons of screentime. We often talk about device use in all the wrong ways; leave it to Pixar to get it right. I’ll be in the theater Saturday morning. 《玩具总动员 5》。反派竟然是一台 iPad！我太喜欢这个设定了。从各方面评价来看，这部电影无论作为故事本身，还是作为对屏幕使用时间利弊的深度思考，都非常成功。我们讨论设备使用时往往不得要领，还得是皮克斯才能把这件事讲明白。周六早上我就去电影院看。
Lettera. Markdown editors are a dime a dozen right now, but hardly anybody does text editing better than Shiny Frog, the folks behind the great Bear app. This text editor is in beta, but it’s already super fast and stable at least for me. Gonna use this a lot. Lettera。现在的 Markdown 编辑器多如牛毛，但很少有人能比 Shiny Frog（优秀应用 Bear 的开发商）做得更好。这款编辑器目前处于测试阶段，但至少对我来说，它已经非常快速且稳定了。我以后会经常用它。
The PopSockets Low-Pro Grip. I might be the world’s most fervent supporter of PopSockets, and of phone grips of all kinds. (Phones are not comfortable to hold!) I’ve been using the kickstand PopSocket for a while, but am going to gladly trade it, and my $40, for the super-thin new model. PopSockets Low-Pro Grip。我可能是世界上 PopSockets 和各类手机支架最狂热的支持者。（手机握持感实在太差了！）我用带支架的 PopSocket 已经有一段时间了，但我很乐意花 40 美元换成这款超薄的新型号。
Mastodon 4.6. I don’t spend that much time on Mastodon anymore, but this might help win me (and some others) back. Collections are a clever way to solve Mastodon’s big discovery and search problem, and a good way to help people get started on a new social network. Plus, you can let people sign up to get your posts sent via email. Fediverse, baby! Mastodon 4.6。虽然我不再花太多时间在 Mastodon 上，但这次更新可能会让我（以及其他人）回归。“合集”（Collections）功能是解决 Mastodon 发现和搜索难题的巧妙方法，也是帮助用户上手新社交网络的好途径。此外，你还可以让人们订阅并通过电子邮件接收你的帖子。联邦宇宙（Fediverse），冲啊！
Snap Specs. $2,195 for a pair of smart glasses! Wild. I confess I am not at all convinced anyone’s going to want these — they’re big and wonky and way too expensive. But I also think Snap understands how people actually want to use technology better than just about anybody. So I’m not writing these off just yet. Snap Specs。一副智能眼镜要 2195 美元！太疯狂了。我承认我完全不相信会有人想要它——它们又大又笨重，而且贵得离谱。但我同时也认为，Snap 比任何人都更了解人们真正想要如何使用科技。所以我还没打算彻底否定它们。
Android 17. Coming soon to a Pixel near you: an easier way to capture reaction videos, floating app windows that seem like a very useful multitasking system that I hope iOS copies immediately, and a built-in controller for playing games on foldables. As always with Android, it’s only some features, for some phones… but I like where Android is headed. Android 17。即将登陆你的 Pixel 手机：更简单的反应视频录制方式、看起来非常实用的浮动应用窗口多任务系统（希望 iOS 能立刻抄作业），以及用于折叠屏游戏的内置控制器。和往常一样，Android 的这些功能只针对部分机型……但我喜欢 Android 的发展方向。
VSCO Studio Pro. VSCO makes nice photography stuff, and this app, which is made for editing huge sets of photos all at once, is very clever. “Make all my other photos look like this photo” is just such a useful editing trick! I’m not wild about the looming subscription model here, but I like what VSCO’s making. VSCO Studio Pro。VSCO 在摄影领域表现出色，这款专为批量编辑大量照片而设计的应用非常聪明。“让所有照片呈现出这张照片的风格”是一个极其好用的编辑技巧！虽然我不喜欢即将到来的订阅模式，但我很欣赏 VSCO 的产品。
“The Music Industry is Broken.” Really good Drew Gooden video about how the business of music is changing thanks to streaming services, AI, ticketing monopolies, and more. There’s definitely some “you’re just mad at capitalism” going on here, but Drew does a good job at hitting on all the ways things have changed, and why it all feels bad. “音乐产业崩溃了”。这是 Drew Gooden 制作的一段非常棒的视频，讲述了流媒体服务、人工智能、票务垄断等因素如何改变了音乐产业。视频中确实带有一些“你只是对资本主义不满”的论调，但 Drew 很好地指出了行业变化的方方面面，以及为什么这一切让人感到糟糕。
The Microsoft Surface Laptop 8. There’s a new Surface Pro, too, but I have long thought the more normal Surface Laptop (not to be confused with the Ultra) was one of the best Windows devices out there. If the new Qualcomm chips are as good as advertised, this should be a really useful all-purpose laptop. And it looks great in green. Microsoft Surface Laptop 8。虽然还有新款 Surface Pro，但我一直认为更常规的 Surface Laptop（不要与 Ultra 版混淆）是市面上最好的 Windows 设备之一。如果新款高通芯片真如宣传的那样出色，这应该会是一款非常实用的全能笔记本电脑。而且它的绿色版本看起来很棒。
Songs of The Dead. The beginning of a new series coauthored by Installerverse favorite Brandon Sanderson, called The Strata Wars, this book is about music and magic and time and space and a million other things. Some reviewers seemed to find it a bit much, but others loved it. And I know a lot of us love Sanderson. 《Songs of The Dead》。这是由《Installer》读者最喜爱的作者 Brandon Sanderson 参与合著的新系列《The Strata Wars》的开篇之作。这本书讲述了音乐、魔法、时间、空间以及其他无数事物。一些评论家觉得内容有点过载，但另一些人则非常喜欢。我知道我们很多人都是 Sanderson 的粉丝。