The portable speakers you need this summer

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 44, your usher to the champion and Verge-iest worldly successful the world. (If you’re caller here, welcome, truthful psyched you recovered us, and besides you tin work each the aged editions astatine the Installer homepage.) 

I besides person for you a mates of large caller Bluetooth speakers, the caller play of Hulu’s champion show, an app for turning everything into audio, and overmuch more.

Also, speedy housekeeping news: nary Installer adjacent week. It’s a vacation present successful the US (and besides my birthday), truthful I’ll beryllium extracurricular grilling things and getting sunburned. But support sending recommendations, and we’ll beryllium backmost with a large 1 close after.

Okay, let’s dive in.

(As always, the champion portion of Installer is your ideas and tips. What bash you privation to cognize much about? What awesome tricks bash you cognize that everyone other should? What app should everyone beryllium using? Tell maine everything: installer@theverge.com. And if you cognize idiosyncratic other who mightiness bask Installer, guardant it to them and archer them to subscribe here.)

The Drop

Screen share

I think the archetypal Sara Dietschy video I ever saw was the 1 wherever she perfectly explained How To Casey Neistat a Vlog. (That title, by the way, is similar a cleanable 2016 clip capsule, and I inactive miss that epoch of YouTube.) Since then, she’s go 1 of my favourite creators, talking astir everything from cameras to creativity to cars to just… life. And much recently, arsenic a caller genitor myself, it’s been truly chill to ticker her spell done truthful overmuch of the aforesaid worldly arsenic is happening successful my house.

I asked Sara to stock her homescreen with us, funny to spot however she was balancing beingness worldly with creator stuff. Both are truly demanding, and we’ve each lone got 1 homescreen, you know? Turns out, there’s a spot of some successful determination — but mostly beingness stuff.

Here’s Sara’s homescreen, positive immoderate info connected the apps she uses and why:

The phone: iPhone 15 Pro.

The wallpaper: My wallpaper is ever a rotation of cute babe pics. She is my full beingness close now. I mean, look astatine her… right? I emotion widgets truthful I ever person stonks I’m watching and the upwind beforehand and center.

The apps: Phone, Clock, Settings, Camera, Photos, Drive, Amazon, Blackmagic Camera, YouTube, Tesla, DoorDash, Apple Notes, Google Authenticator, Vivint, WhatsApp, Nanit, Messages, Hatch Baby, Safari, Gmail.

My homescreen is reserved for the apps I usage aggregate times each azygous day. 

The to-do widget is from the Things app — wherever each of my to-dos spell to dice :) But astatine slightest they’re ace organized.

I besides asked Sara to stock a fewer things she’s into close now. Here’s what she sent back:

Crowdsourced

Here’s what the Installer assemblage is into this week. I privation to cognize what you’re into close present arsenic well! Email installer@theverge.com oregon connection maine connected Signal — @davidpierce.11 — with your recommendations for thing and everything, and we’ll diagnostic immoderate of our favorites present each week. And for much large recommendations than I could acceptable here, cheque retired the replies to this station connected Threads.

“Seeing chess successful Installer made maine deliberation of different large chess game! Really Bad Chess by Zach Gage is seemingly truly bully for my brain. It’s disposable connected iOS and Android with an in-app purchase, and it’s escaped if you wage for Apple Arcade!” – Harvey

“I’m bittersweet that much radical don’t cognize astir “17776” and “20020,” stories from the acold aboriginal astir shot and sapient satellites.” – Lego

“I conscionable finished Temptation of the Force by Tessa Gratton. It’s the latest caller successful the Star Wars: The High Republic storyline, and these proceed to beryllium immoderate of my favourite books of the past 10 years, decidedly successful the Star Wars universe. They’re acceptable a fewer 100 years earlier the movies, and I’d urge them to immoderate fan.” – Justin

“Starting to cure a pancetta and capicola utilizing Umai Dry vacuum bags. I don’t person a large spot to cure and adust meats successful our metropolis home, truthful it’s bully to beryllium capable to bash it successful the fridge. Bonus: I get to usage the caller vacuum sealer my household got maine for Father’s Day!” – Timothy

“Anil Dash wrote up 2 posts connected what a committee of directors does, and it’s fascinating! Required speechmaking if you’re into however firm governance works.” – Richard

“I’ve been getting into sideloading. It’s astonishing what you tin get with a developer ID and the cracked iPhone apps that are retired there.” – Dawit

“I cannot halt playing Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor connected PC. In this roguelike, you’re a dwarf mining precious minerals and battling hordes of bugs connected an alien planet. It’s ridiculously fun, casual to prime up, and the limb and accomplishment systems are ​thoroughly satisfying to navigate.” – Abhimanyu

“A portion back, I went done the aforesaid travel you look to beryllium on: ‘I privation a Light Phone, but… what if I conscionable turned my iPhone into a Light Phone?’ The enactment I similar astir is gathering my ain with Widgy Widgets. It’s a precise almighty app that allows you to physique your ain widgets. It’s not intuitive and it has mode much powerfulness than I’d ever need, but it’s astonishing to physique your ain Light Phone.” – Tom

“I’m astir halfway done Adrian Tchaikovsky’s caller sci-fi book, Service Model, and it’s a large communicative astir AI and our reliance connected technology. Can’t enactment it down!” – Sighjinks

Signing off

Before we spell to bed, my woman and I beryllium down astir each nighttime to ticker thing together. Sometimes we speech done the full thing, sometimes we ticker the show, sometimes we beryllium and look astatine our phones the full time. It’s bully each 3 ways! I fishy a batch of radical person their wind-down shows, but let maine to archer you astir ours: The Great Food Truck Race connected Food Network. (Well, present Max, but you cognize what I mean.) It’s similar a cooking amusement meets The Amazing Race, determination are 16 seasons — and play 17 starts this weekend! — and it’s each silly and fantastic. My woman and I person developed respective 100 nutrient motortruck ideas portion watching the show, too, which is besides precise fun. 

If you’re successful request of a caller amusement to ticker everlastingly without moving your encephalon excessively hard, cheque retired the nutrient trucks. (And if you person different shows similar this I should watch, delight fto maine know. We’re caught up connected nutrient trucks, and it’s a problem.)

Have a large vacation to each those celebrating. See you successful 2 weeks!