This might be the new best smart speaker

这或许是目前最好的智能音箱

Plus, in this week’s Installer: Star Fox is back, Meta’s got a new pair of glasses, a big Deltarune update, and more. 在本周的《Installer》中：星际火狐（Star Fox）回归，Meta 推出了新款眼镜，Deltarune 有重大更新，以及更多精彩内容。

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 134, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you’re okay in all this heat, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) 朋友们好！欢迎来到第 134 期《Installer》，这是你探索全球最棒、最“Verge”风格事物的指南。（如果你是新朋友，欢迎加入，希望你在酷暑中一切安好。你也可以在《Installer》主页阅读往期内容。）

This week, I’ve been reading about Polymarket lies and Jalen Brunson and the Arts and Crafts Movement, watching Not Suitable for Work and way too much of the World Cup, trying to catch up on The Bear before the final season starts, playing a bunch of Hank Green’s 4x3 game, trying my absolute hardest not to preorder this amazing Stanley Kubrick collection even though I’m obviously going to, buying a bunch of new AirTags and charging cables during Prime Day, poring over oral histories of data centers and Steven Spielberg, and thinking rude thoughts about whoever decided to kill Notion Mail. 本周，我阅读了关于 Polymarket 的谎言、杰伦·布伦森（Jalen Brunson）以及工艺美术运动的内容；观看了《Not Suitable for Work》和过量的世界杯比赛；试图在最终季开始前补完《熊家餐馆》（The Bear）；玩了许多 Hank Green 的 4x3 游戏；拼命克制自己不去预购那套超棒的斯坦利·库布里克（Stanley Kubrick）收藏集（尽管我显然最终还是会买）；在 Prime Day 期间买了一堆新的 AirTags 和充电线；钻研了数据中心和史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格（Steven Spielberg）的口述历史；并对那个决定砍掉 Notion Mail 的人产生了一些粗鲁的想法。

I also have for you a smart speaker worth a look, a great new remake of a great old game, a couple of excellent video essays, and a Netflix hit to binge on your vacation. 我还为你准备了一款值得关注的智能音箱、一款经典老游戏的出色重制版、几篇优秀的视频短文，以及一部适合在假期刷剧的 Netflix 热播剧。

Oh, and two more things. One, we’re off next week for the holiday weekend. And two, I have a question: What’s your reading setup? I mean reading in the broadest sense: books, long articles, newsletters, weird zines your kids make, anything and everything. I want to know the apps you swear by, the decade-old Kindle you won’t let go of, your go-to used bookstore, your favorite brand of highlighter, anything and everything. I have some thoughts on the subject, too. We’ll talk. 哦，还有两件事。第一，下周我们将因假期休刊。第二，我有个问题：你的阅读配置是什么？我指的是广义上的阅读：书籍、长文、时事通讯、你孩子制作的奇怪杂志，任何东西。我想知道你信赖的应用程序、你舍不得丢弃的十年旧 Kindle、你常去的二手书店、你最喜欢的荧光笔品牌，任何细节。关于这个话题我也有一些想法，我们以后再聊。

(As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you reading / watching / listening to / playing / gluing together this week? Tell me everything: installer@theverge.com. And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer, forward it to them and tell them to subscribe here.) （一如既往，《Installer》最棒的部分就是你们的建议和点子。你这周在读什么、看什么、听什么、玩什么，或者在捣鼓什么？告诉我一切：installer@theverge.com。如果你认识其他可能喜欢《Installer》的人，请转发给他们，并告诉他们在这里订阅。）

The Drop

精选推荐

The Google Home Speaker. Nine months later, it’s finally on sale! I mostly really like it so far — for its size and $99 price it’s a very serviceable speaker, and since all I really need is “put this on my calendar” and “play this song on Spotify,” Gemini is a winner. Still a little worried about Google’s ongoing interest in the smart home, though… Google Home 音箱。 九个月后，它终于开售了！到目前为止我非常喜欢它——考虑到它的尺寸和 99 美元的价格，它是一款非常实用的音箱。由于我只需要它完成“把这个加入日程”和“在 Spotify 上播放这首歌”之类的任务，Gemini 的表现非常出色。不过，我仍然对 Google 在智能家居领域的持续投入感到一丝担忧……

Star Fox. I was very much raised by the Nintendo 64, but I confess I never really got into Star Fox. This is good news for Adult David, because now I get to experience this game — which is by all accounts a pretty faithful and solid remake of the original — for the very first time. I have a lot of flying to do. 星际火狐（Star Fox）。 我是在任天堂 64 的陪伴下长大的，但我承认我从未真正沉迷过《星际火狐》。这对成年后的我来说是个好消息，因为我现在可以第一次体验这款游戏了——据各方评价，它是对原作非常忠实且扎实的重制版。我有很多飞行任务要完成了。

The Atonemo NTS Radio Player. I don’t know why I’m such a sucker for adorable little music players, but there’s just nothing I can do about it. This one is beautiful, and I love that it both supports streaming services and offers a bunch of just-turn-it-on radio options. The NTS infinite mixtapes always seem to hit. Atonemo NTS 广播播放器。 我不知道为什么自己对可爱的小型音乐播放器毫无抵抗力，但我对此束手无策。这款播放器非常漂亮，我喜欢它既支持流媒体服务，又提供了一堆“即开即听”的广播选项。NTS 的无限混音带总是那么对味。

“The Revolt Against Technology.” Really great video from Jared Henderson about what he calls “the new Luddites,” or more broadly the ongoing backlash against everything tech has become in our lives. I don’t agree with everything in here, but I nodded a lot at the stuff about the future we were promised that simply never arrived. “反抗技术”（The Revolt Against Technology）。 这是 Jared Henderson 制作的一段非常棒的视频，讲述了他所谓的“新卢德分子”，或者更广泛地说，是针对技术在我们生活中所演变成的一切的反弹。我并不完全同意其中的所有观点，但对于关于“我们被承诺的未来却从未到来”的论述，我深表赞同。

Claude Tag. Work chat is so obviously a useful place for AI as a way to find information and accomplish simple stuff. There are going to be a lot of weird social questions to figure out here — can you @claude a request from your boss, right in-line in Slack? — but I suspect I’ll end up using this a lot. Claude Tag。 工作聊天显然是 AI 发挥作用的好地方，可以用来查找信息和完成简单任务。这里会有很多奇怪的社交问题需要解决——比如，你能在 Slack 里直接 @Claude 来处理老板的要求吗？——但我怀疑我最终会频繁使用它。

Meta Glasses. I’m so torn on these. Love that they’re cheaper, love that they’re lower-profile, even love a couple of the styles. But… Meta. I wish I could get a pair of these that were just a camera, a microphone, speakers, and precisely nothing else. Meta 眼镜。 我对这款产品非常纠结。我喜欢它更便宜、更低调，甚至喜欢其中的几种款式。但是……它是 Meta 出品的。我真希望我能买到一款只有摄像头、麦克风、扬声器，除此之外什么都没有的眼镜。

Deltarune Chapter 5. A bunch of new content for an absolutely beloved game just dropped, and both the Steam charts and my social feeds suggest that people are into it. If you’ve been in this world for a while, it apparently ties a lot of things together; if you’re new, like me, it feels like the perfect time to dive in. Deltarune 第五章。 这款备受喜爱的游戏刚刚发布了大量新内容，Steam 排行榜和我的社交媒体动态都显示大家对此非常着迷。如果你在这个世界里待了很久，它显然将许多线索串联了起来；如果你像我一样是新手，现在正是入坑的绝佳时机。

Avatar: The Last Airbender season two. An Installerverse favorite is back! Heard a bunch of good things about this season, too; the general consensus seems to be that nothing could or will ever top the original, but that’s okay and this one’s a great time. I’m always in the market for shows that are just a great time. 《降世神通：最后的气宗》第二季。 《Installer》宇宙的最爱回归了！我也听到了很多关于这一季的好评；普遍的共识似乎是，没有什么能超越原作，但这没关系，这一季依然非常精彩。我一直在寻找那些能带来纯粹快乐的剧集。

“Why Everyone Wants A ‘Live-Service’ Game.” Jason Schreier’s (still new-ish) YouTube channel is full of good reporting and good stories, but this one in particular did a really nice job of answering a really complicated question: Why does everyone keep making these huge, expensive, oversized games that keep failing miserably? I think I get it now. “为什么每个人都想要一款‘实时服务’游戏。” Jason Schreier 的 YouTube 频道（虽然还比较新）充满了优秀的报道和故事，但这一期视频特别出色地回答了一个非常复杂的问题：为什么每个人都在不断制作那些巨大、昂贵、臃肿且不断惨败的游戏？我想我现在明白了。

Screen share

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Three or four times a year, I decide to try and make my iPad my main computer. This is almost always Christopher Lawley’s fault. He is always making these extremely cool, glamorous videos about how to use your iPad! Tablet life seems so peaceful and sane when Chris does it. 每年总有三四次，我决定尝试把 iPad 当作我的主力电脑。这几乎总是 Christopher Lawley 的错。他总是制作那些极其酷炫、迷人的视频，教你如何使用 iPad！当 Chris 操作时，平板电脑的生活看起来是那么平静而理智。

I’ve been a fan of Chris’ work forever, and got excited all over again when I saw that he’s been working on a new tasks / planner app called Parchment. (Not to brag, but I am in the TestFlight.) We’ll dig into the app another time, but I figured this was a good moment to ask Chris to share his iPad setup as it stands right now. Maybe I’ll go full iPad again. 我一直都是 Chris 的粉丝，当我看到他正在开发一款名为 Parchment 的新任务/规划应用程序时，我再次感到兴奋。（不是吹牛，我已经在 TestFlight 测试名单里了。）我们以后再深入探讨这个应用，但我认为现在是邀请 Chris 分享他目前 iPad 配置的好时机。也许我会再次全面转向 iPad。

Here it is, plus some info on the apps he uses and why: The device: 13-inch, 以下是他的分享，以及关于他使用的应用程序及其原因的信息： 设备：13 英寸，