Apples new, colorful iMacs are personality tests for your soul

Choosing a color for your new 24-inch iMac is no simple task. It requires a lot of thought and self reflection — these things need to match your home, your iPhone, your outfits, and your soul. 

If you’re feeling lost as to which one is more your forever mood (and how could you not with seven bold colors?), allow us to help. We’ve put together a short guide to all the different personality types that match each iMac color. Now, you can feel a lot better about your place in society and dropping over $1,300 on one of Apple’s vibrant machines. 

Yellow iMac

You’re the type who wakes up and manages to check off going for a one-mile run, folding laundry, and clearing your inbox to zero all before sunrise. You think being a “morning person” is something to brag about and you definitely mention it in your Bumble bio. On weekends, you enjoy finding inspirational quotes on Pinterest boards like “Dream Big, Work Hard” to print out using your label maker. (Yes, there are labels in your cupboards.)

Yellow isn’t for the night owls.

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In the evenings, you can regularly be found sipping Barefoot Pinot Grigio out of a wine glass emblazoned with the words “Live, Laugh, Love” as you lazily browse Zillow on your phone and imagine yourself starring in one of those HGTV shows. Oh, and you’ve probably got Taylor Swift’s Fearless album blasting in the background (yes, we know, she’s gonna re-record everything and stick it to Scooter Braun).

Orange iMac

There are two types of orange fans out there:

There are the real Elle Woods stans who know this orange iMac is only acceptable because it’s the closest they’ll get to her iconic iBook in Legally Blonde. 

When asked how you managed to choose this color out of so many options, your natural response is: “What? Like it’s hard?” 

Bend and snap, baby!

Will the real Elle Woods stans please stand up?

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If, for some ungodly reason, you’re the other kind of orange lover who just…likes orange, then it’s clear you have no taste. Orange is obnoxious but maybe you’re okay with that? (We don’t judge.) It matches absolutely nothing in your living space and is only ever appropriate in the fall (and even then it’s questionable). 

As Elle Woods put it best:
“Whoever said orange was the new pink was seriously disturbed.”

Green iMac

Green — the “daring” color option for bros who are comfortable in their own skin and like to remind you of it.

If you could, you’d use the green iMac in the middle of the woods even though you’d have zero electricity or WiFi access because…vibes, man. 

Is that a Nalgene bottle I see in your hand?

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You can’t go a full 15 minutes without mentioning either veganism, cold brew coffee, or Elon Musk, and you love to scarf down Impossible Burgers because you feel like you’re saving the planet with every bite. 

Oh, and though you have a tendency to rant about Amazon taking over everything, you still shop exclusively at Whole Foods for the Prime member discounts.

Pink iMac

If the pink iMac were a human, it would have very strong opinions about James Charles, Jeffree Star, and the rest of the beauty YouTuber gang. It would also most definitely make a very public showing of leaving (and then rejoining) Twitter to get away from the haters. 

We all know you love to keep track of your like-to-minute ratio.

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Those who opt for this bubbly-looking machine are the ones who know all the words to Addison Rae’s Obsessed, binge Trisha Paytas’ mukbang vlogs, and get real-time updates on the David Dobrik saga. Their IG grid also consists strictly of thirst traps captioned with sayings like:
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”

Purple iMac

Okay, kween. Tell me you think you’re royalty without telling me you think you’re royalty. 

We get it, you’re zen.

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When you choose the purple iMac, here’s what we know for sure: 

You obsessively use the Headspace app and have somehow made meditation into a competitive sport. You’re always carrying that rose quartz healing crystal you bought from Etsy in your “Rose Apothecary” bag and talking about “staying grounded” in these “trying times.” You unironically enjoy the scent of GOOP’s “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle and you also think this iMac matches your aura perfectly. 

Blue iMac

You’re not a regular mom, you’re a “cool” mom. 

You love to brag about all those DMB shows you attended in college.

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You carpool your kids and all their friends to soccer in a Toyota Highlander (because it’s the new minivan), proudly attend school bake sales with cupcakes from Trader Joe’s in hand, and watch Bravo with a glass or three of Skinnygirl Margarita. And instead of paying attention during those dreaded Zoom PTA meetings, you’re scrolling through Chrissy Teigen’s Twitter and liking all her tweets because you thrive on safe social media drama. 

Is that a Dave Matthews Band album we hear in the background?

Silver iMac

This iMac sits on your very neat, very clean desk right next to the HomePod mini (that reads off your Apple calendar every morning) and the latest iPad Pro (that’s only used to display the stock market ticker in real time). You’re confident Jony Ive would approve of your minimalist setup because you find comfort in the term “Basic AF.” You probably own a plain grey sweatshirt that says as much.

Yes, Jony Ive approves of your decision.

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When you’re not answering boring emails with gems like “Will circle back,” you’re bike riding through the Canadian Mountains or French Countryside on your Peloton to warm up for a cycling class with Cody Rigsby. At the end of each night, you wind down by watching DVR’d episodes of The Masked Singer, even though it always becomes background noise to your continuing Candy Crush addiction. 

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Save on blenders, succulents, and more at Amazons Spring into Summer event

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Host’s insulated wine glasses are a clutch gift for any bottomless brunch aficionados.

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Save up to 26%: Amazon’s Spring into Summer event has a deals section and it’s loaded. As of May 13, find discounts on Margaritaville and Vitamix blenders, plants, and more.

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As if we needed another reason to force summer vibes after the year we’ve had, Amazon’s curated Spring into Summer section just got loaded with a ton of deals.

Turn your outdoor space into a makeshift rooftop bar with fancy margarita blenders, hammocks, succulents, and self-cooling glasses on sale — or get your Father’s Day or grad gift shopping done. There are three pages of deals in total, but here are our favorite picks:

Sure, it’s technically 5 o’clock somewhere — but in 2021, our excuse for a marg is simply that it’s not 2020 anymore. Two of Margaritaville’s fancy official blenders are up for grabs for less than $300. The Tahiti has three independent blending stations for three flavors at once, while the Bali can self-dispense margaritas, daiquiris, coladas or smoothies.

Select Vitamix blenders are also up to 15% off.

Speaking of happy hour, Host’s Cooling Cups appear on multiple Mashable gift guides every year. Anyone who counts the minutes to their post-work glass will appreciate an insulated glass that’ll keep their beer or wine chilled (or red wine at cellar temp) on a hot day. Just pop the whole tumbler in the freezer, wait for the gel to freeze, and use the insulted grip to keep fingers off the ice.

Wine glasses, 16-ounce beer glasses, and whiskey glasses are all on sale.

Aspiring plant parents can usher themselves into parenthood with a laidback succulent (or five). These packs from Altman Plants are handpicked straight from the nursery and come potted separately. Use the money you save to score a larger planter to keep these roots happy — and make sure it has a drainage hole.

Live snake plants are also easy care and also on sale.

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Try Things You Dont Think You Like

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When our parenting editor Meghan Walbert wrote a few weeks ago that she was determined to learn to like running, several of the comments on that piece (and its sequel) argued against the very idea of trying to like something you hate. I would like to propose an alternative viewpoint: that trying things you expect to hate is a fantastic way to find things you’ll actually love.

In fact, it’s how I’ve found many of the things I now love. Here’s one: I used to hate coffee, even avoiding coffee-flavored desserts. But one day I said, okay, let me try some mild-flavored coffee, and if I can finish a whole cup maybe I’ll be less of a baby about the bitterness. My intuition was right: After a week or two, coffee was a thing I could tolerate, and soon after, it became a thing I enjoy. I love it now. I drink it black.

I asked the Lifehacker staff if they could relate, and got a resounding yes. Here’s personal finance writer Mike Winters:

Cooking! In my twenties I couldn’t fry an egg properly (the heat was too high for over a decade), but I also knew that I had no idea what I was doing, which fed into a negative feedback loop of discouragement which made cooking seem like a chore.

In my thirties I got more serious and used a handful of remedial-level recipes for things like chilli or salmon cooked with leeks, but it wasn’t until I got into subscription food boxes that cooking became less intimidating. I’m still no cordon bleu, but at least I can improvise a proper meal if I had to.

As Mike’s story illustrates, sometimes we don’t like a thing because we aren’t good at it yet. Get better at the thing, and it suddenly becomes more enjoyable.

Here’s more, from editor-in-chief Jordan Calhoun, for whom three things came to mind when I asked:

I hated working out in the mornings; it was really hard for me at first. And it would’ve been easy to quit and just work out later in the day, but I’m glad I stuck it out for a little while longer. Now I enjoy it, which basically opens up my busy schedule for a lot more flexibility: Depending on crammed my week is, I can move my workout around to whatever schedule works for me and still have the motivation to go.

Also, reading. There’s a remarkable decline in reading that happens in kids—particularly young boys—when reading becomes less interesting compared to other passtimes, and I definitely fell victim to that. I hated reading. Fiction felt too slow compared to the cartoons I could watch, and non-fiction felt like school. Obviously, though, reading can be a great pastime once you learn to sit quietly with a book, and I’m glad I did.

Also, learning to appreciate alternative sports—”alternative” for me being anything other than the two sports I was raised to watch, which were basketball and football. Other sports felt boring because I didn’t know how to watch them…I didn’t know when to get excited, or how the game was paced, or whether a particular feat was spectacular or commonplace. Learning to appreciate a new game meant feeling pretty bored and stupid in the beginning, but I’m glad I stuck it out because eventually sports like soccer and volleyball became ones that I understood better and learned to enjoy watching. Even games like poker or chess (especially games like poker and chess) felt absolutely boring when I didn’t know what I was looking at, but getting over that hurdle turned them into some good entertainment with skillsets that I admire. I’m glad I stuck them out and endured the learning curve instead of writing them off as too “boring” to endure.

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Sometimes it’s not until you try something that you understand what it’s even like. Is it fair to say you dislike chess if you’ve never learned how the game works? Can you really say you don’t like working out in the mornings if you’ve never given it a chance?

I asked on Twitter as well, and the trend continued. Sushi, roller coasters, hot yoga, ice swimming, zip lines, reality TV, opera, brussels sprouts, mezcal, and more. Here’s a story from a diehard fan of K-pop icons BTS:

I always had a certain snobbishness about pop music and thought BTS would be a novelty to mock. But I was immediately hit by their sincerity and work ethic which reminded me more of opera singers and ballerinas than “pop acts.” After a few music videos and interviews, I was in.

Reflecting on my own experiences, it turns out I’ve found almost everything I love by taking a chance on something I didn’t expect to like. It’s why I’m so open to new experiences: so many of them have worked out well for me. I hated sports and gym class growing up; now I work out every day and compete in multiple strength sports. My mission to train myself to like coffee was so successful I did it for other bitter flavors as well, and I’m now a huge fan of beer, seltzer, and even black licorice, all of which I absolutely could not stand at first.

Sometimes hate takes time to turn to love; other times, it happens in an instant. The first time I bent a nail (one of those old-timey strongman stunts), I did it purely out of spite. It seemed like such a pointless thing to do, but I’d met several people who were addicted to bending nails. I remember the exact moment a switch flipped in my brain: I had wrapped a thin steel bar in cloth and was pushing into it with all my might. It wasn’t bending, and I had the thought “Oh great, this isn’t just stupid, it’s stupid and impossible.” Suddenly the steel gave way, which was immensely gratifying, and my very next thought was: “What else can I bend?”

The truth is, you can’t know if you like something until you find out why people like it, and give yourself the chance to experience that. Sometimes the fun part isn’t available to beginners—as in Lindy hop, a dance where the fundamental move is also the hardest one to learn—so you have to invest time and energy before figuring out whether or not it’s for you.

This is easier to understand in some contexts than others. We all know that you need to taste a food to find out whether you like it, and that if you had a bad experience with, say, spinach, that you might still like a spinach dish if it’s prepared differently. We’ve all seen those memes about the dad who doesn’t want a dog, and then ends up ordering a custom t-shirt with the dog’s face on it.

So do yourself a favor and try something you always thought you would hate. Seek out the part of the experience that people like, and give yourself a chance to like it too. You just might find yourself falling in love.

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How to Avoid Being Triggered by Fake Viral Recipe Videos

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Last night, as I was trying to wind down, I saw a tweet that read “what a normal and ultimate spaghetti hack!” There was a video attached. In this video—which is a rip-off of an older TikTok video—a white woman in a “Plant Lady” shirt pours cold two cold, Costco-sized jars of Prego onto a granite (or maybe it’s marble) slab, while a different white woman coos in the background. She then adds meatballs of an indeterminate temperature, far too much powdered parmesan, and a whole lot of steaming, clumpy spaghetti before mixing it all together. Everyone who sees it hates it, and that is the point (I think).

It’s also fake as hell. The food is real—the white Plant Lady really is wasting all of that pasta—but the video is not genuine. As Eater reported just today (as I was writing this, conveniently enough!), all of these videos with blandly attractive, thin, white women can be traced back to a magician who has the audacity to be named “Rick Lax.” Lax described the production of the videos as “both friendship and business,” and told Eater he would “object” to anyone calling the recipes “gross.”

Him??

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But they are gross. And—worse—they aren’t even funny. The women in the spaghetti video can’t even fully commit to the bit by using their actual countertop. (If you look closely, you will see this coward is actually assembling her pile of garbage on a slab set atop her actual counter.) There is a vague attempt at humor at the end where both women instruct you to “fold it in” with an ever so slight Moira Rose affectation—a reference loved by white women everywhere—but the video is not entertaining. There is no joke. There is no payoff. There is no resting place. (Blackhead extraction videos are more satisfying—and less grotesque!)

After falling for exactly two of these types of videos (one of which came from Rick Lax productions), I’m over it, and I invite you to be over it with me. There are so many real things to be angry about; there’s no reason to let a woman in a “Plant Lady” shirt take up valuable space in the rage portion of your brain. The impotent anger you feel after watching someone smear food on a countertop (or slab set on top of a countertop) in an otherwise pristine and quite spacious and probably expensive kitchen is what gives Rick Lax power, and he and his army of white women will not go away until we stop looking at them.

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How do we do this? There are two steps here: identify and ignore. Once you know you’re dealing with this particular type of troll, simply pretend you do not see it. Do not comment. Do not share. Do not send it to anyone. (Then refresh your brain by gargling your mind throat with a good food video—like Sohla’s on Food52, Lucas Sin’s or George Lee’s Instagram content, or Kevin Ashton’s TikTok, to name a few.)

Identifying can be the (kind of) tricky part, but once you know what to look for, spotting this kind of troll is easy. Here are some questions you can ask yourself if you think you’ve stumbled upon such a video in the wild, whether produced by a magician or not.

The impotent anger you feel is what gives Rick Lax power, and he and his army of white women will not go away until we stop looking at them.

Does the food look good?

Look at the food on screen with your eyes and ask yourself if you would want to eat it. If the presentation is slovenly, cartoonishly unappealing, or if a real human guest would be insulted by it, the food is probably not meant for actual human consumption.

Does anyone eat it on camera? 

If they won’t eat it, you shouldn’t either.

Does the reasoning make sense?

A “hack” is only a hack if it solves a problem, or makes a recipe easier, faster, or better. Let’s take one of my absurd blogs as an example. Smartfood popcorn grits could easily be interpreted as a straight-up troll, but if you read the article, you’ll see that popcorn grits have been around for thousands of years, and all I did was used cheese-flavored, pre-popped popcorn rather than popping it myself. It’s a small, kind of silly “hack,” but it makes the recipe take less time, and it tastes pretty darn good (if you like the flavor of white cheddar popcorn).

Is there any sense self-awareness?

Popcorn salad is another example of a recent piece of food content that made people very mad. But if you watch the original video, you see a cheerful, but self-aware Molly Yeh explain that she knows that the concept seems flawed, but promises you that “you taste it, and it’s really good.” (Molly was, as it turns out, correct about this.) Lax’s are completely devoid of hubris, or any real human emotion. With the glaring exception of whatever “recipe” is being featured, these clips are cold and sterile; would be mocking if they were just a little cleverer. Be aware of the tone, is what I’m saying.

Was it produced by Rick Lax?

As Eater points out in their absolutely engrossing and very well-reported piece, you can, “[s]earch the phrase ‘Rick Lax Productions,’” and, “be greeted with the source code to pure Facebook virality.” You can then search Rick’s videos with the subject matter of the video your questioning—which is how I found out that the Flaming Hot Cheeto sludge recipe was, somewhat unsurprisingly, one of his gross babies.

We must not let this magician continue to dominate the conversation with boring, ugly food videos for the sake of garnering rage views. It may seem impossible—Lax has pretty much dominated the Facebook Watch algorithm—but magicians are kind of like Tinkerbell. Quit clapping, and they disappear.

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Help Your Garden Thrive By Pairing These Plants

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Like some humans, certain plants are more comfortable in pairs. Sure, they could survive on their own, but to really thrive, they need a special (plant) someone by their side.

Known in the gardening world as “companion plants” or “helpmates,” these pairs have FWB (foliage-with-benefits) relationships. Typically, it involves things like helping each other source nutrients or keep pesky garden pests away. Think of it has the horticultural buddy system.

If this sounds like something you might want to try in your own garden, Rachel Brougham at BobVila.com has some companion plant suggestions. Here are a few to consider.

Plants that grow well in pairs

Need some help playing plant matchmaker? Brougham has some recommendations:

Basil

• Pairs well with: Tomatoes, potatoes, beets, cabbage, beans, asparagus, eggplant, chili, bell peppers, marigolds

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Beets

• Pairs well with: Plants in the cabbage family, carrots, celery, corn, cucumber, garlic, strawberries, marigolds

Carrots

• Pairs well with: Cabbage, leeks, lettuce, onions, chives, peas

Cucumbers

• Pairs well with: Beans, corn, peas, tomatoes, radishes, vegetables from the cabbage family, marigolds, oregano, nasturtium

Lettuce (including romaine, Bibb and loose-leaf varieties)

• Pairs well with: Beets, carrots, onions, garlic, members of the cabbage family

Melons (watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew)

• Pairs well with: Corn, pumpkins, radishes, squash, marigolds, oregano

Peppers (spicy or mild)

• Pairs well with: Carrots, eggplant, onions, parsley, tomatoes, basil

Potatoes

• Pairs well with: Beans, cabbage family plants, corn, eggplant, peas, horseradish

Squash (butternut, carnival, other varieties)

• Pairs well with: Corn, melon, pumpkin, marigolds, oregano

Tomatoes

• Pairs well with: Asparagus, carrots, celery, cucumbers, onions, parsley, peppers, basil, dill, chives, mint

What next?

Enjoy your bountiful harvest(s)! And if you’re not sure what to make with your bumper crop of cucumbers and squash, there are plenty of recipes and other suggestions in Lifehacker’s Skillet vertical to keep you well- and healthily-fed all summer. In the event you grow more than you can eat or give away, we also have plenty of canning– and preserving-related content to check out.

 

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How to Become a Vegetarian (or Eat Less Meat)

I have some personal news: I went vegan about three or four months ago. Considering that I’ve written thousands of words about how much I love tofu and black bean burgers, this “news” is hardly shocking, but with meat discourse reaching furious new heights (or depths?) every day, it seemed too relevant not to share.

To be honest, this has been a long time coming. I’ve never been morally or ethically opposed to eating animals—I’m still not—but capitalism is another story, and at this point there’s no separating the two. You don’t need me to tell you that industrial meat production is an enormous contributor to global warming (and climate denialism) or that meat processing corporations are almost cartoonishly evil in their exploitation of an underpaid, often undocumented workforce. The facts are out there for the whole world to see, which is probably why more people are choosing to eat less meat.

But making the choice is easy; figuring out how to eat less meat is less so. What do you eat instead, especially when you’ve eaten meat your whole life? Whether you’re going fully vegan or just cutting back, these tips will help you find some answers.

Ask yourself the hard questions

OK, I lied a little—there are a few more questions before the answers. Big lifestyle changes should be cause for reflection, but if the idea of eating less meat still makes you uncomfortable, you owe it to yourself to ask why.

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What are the downsides? Well, you’ll eat less meat. That’s pretty much it. Meat will still exist, of course, but most of the time you’ll just eat other stuff. Is that really a dealbreaker for you? If so, why? You can get protein and fat from a zillion other foods—do you have to have meat? Once you’ve thought about it a little, you’ll find your personal reasons, or you might realize that you don’t need meat at all, or at least not all the time.

Do a little brainstorming

The easiest way to eat less meat is to eat more of everything else. A good first step is to sit down and make a list of non-meat foods you already love. Don’t be afraid to take this assignment extremely literally: Even a list of 10 vegetables you like is valuable, and it’ll make meal planning easier.

Your list should not include foods that could be meatless with the right substitutes. Known quantities are fair game—like your favorite frozen vegetable dumplings or a great vegan burger from a local pub—but don’t count on fake meat to save the day, especially if you’ve never had it.

Get an air fryer

Oh my God, I can’t believe I waited until the year 2021 to buy an air fryer. It makes short work of every roasted vegetable you can think of, plus a wide variety of goodies like crispy tofu, extra-crispy potatoes, fried bread, frozen gnocchi, leftover fries, crispy shallots, and of course, frozen tater tots—and that’s just off the top of my head. Please don’t be a dummy like me: Get an air fryer before you give up meat.

Get really into beans

You probably saw this coming, but beans are a cornerstone of a meatless diet. This will be great news to some and a real downer to others—but if you’re not a big bean guy, try to keep an open mind. The world of beans is wider and more delicious than you might think.

Beans don’t have to come from a bag or a can, and you don’t even have to eat them whole. Tofu and tempeh are wonderful examples of the humble soybean’s versatility; falafel is just chickpeas and herbs in a convenient, deep-fried package. You can even make pancakes and fritters entirely out of beans: In Indian cuisine, chilla (or cheela) are pancakes made from either besan (chickpea flour) or soaked legumes that have been puréed into a batter. (If you soak the legumes with some rice and let it ferment, you’ve got dosa batter.) Korean cuisine has nokdujeong (or bindaetteok), a mung bean-based fritter stuffed with kimchi, bean sprouts, and scallions.

Broaden your horizons

Beans are just the beginning. For the majority of our time on earth, human beings have eaten anything but meat—which means we’ve figured out about a billion ways to make plants taste good.

Every cuisine on the planet has a rich tradition of meatless dishes, and you don’t have to dig very deep to find them. Whether you get them from YouTube or cookbooks (my two preferred sources), homestyle recipes from pretty much any culinary tradition will never steer you wrong.

My go-to dinner is usually either some form of homestyle Mexican food—beans, tortillas, salsa, potatoes, the occasional soyrizo—or literally any recipe from Priya and Ritu Krishna’s Indian-ish, the best cookbook of the decade. As always, seek out recipes created by people who are actually part of the culture they’re representing. The recipes will be better and you’ll learn more.

Buy more food

My final tip for eating less meat is super obvious but rarely mentioned: If you’re used to a meat-heavy diet, you’ll need to eat way more other stuff to make up for it. I’m not talking about nutrient macros—I’m talking sheer volume. A big steak is still a big steak after it’s cooked, but an enormous head of cauliflower can shrink down to a single serving in a hot oven. When you go grocery shopping, err on the side of buying larger portions than you’re used to, at least until you get a feel for your new normal. Something tells me that won’t take long.

 

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Amazon Echo Show 8 y Echo Show 5 (2021): los nuevos altavoces de Amazon se pueden convertir en cámaras de vigilancia

Amazon acaba de renovar su gama de altavoces inteligentes con pantalla. La compañía ha lanzado los nuevos Amazon Echo 8 y Echo Show 5, cuya principal diferencia, como se puede intuir por sus nombres, es el tamaño de la pantalla. El primero tiene una pantalla de ocho pulgadas y el segundo se queda con una diagonal de cinco pulgadas.

Sin embargo, no es la única diferencia entre ambos dispositivos, ya que el Amazon Echo 8 tiene una peculiar función en su cámara: se desplaza y acerca la imagen para mantenernos encuadrados durante una videollamada. A continuación los conoceremos mejor, no sin antes destacar que el precio del Echo Show 5 es de 84,99 euros (cinco euros menos que el modelo anterior), mientras que el del Echo Show es de 129,99 euros (el mismo que antes).

Amazon Echo Show 8: la cámara que nos sigue

Amazon Echo Show 8.

En lo que a diseño se refiere, el Amazon Echo Show 8 es muy parecido al modelo anterior. La principal diferencia radica en el espacio dedicado para la cámara, que ahora cuenta con una cubierta integrada para que podamos taparla cuando no queramos usarla. Es una de las formas que Amazon tiene de garantizar la privacidad.

El dispositivo monta una pantalla HD de ocho pulgadas con ajuste de color adaptativo desde la que podremos ver pelis en streaming, seguir recetas paso a paso, reproducir fotos para convertirlo en un marco digital e interactuar con la domótica. También incorpora altavoces estéreo y un procesador de ocho núcleos que le da vida a Alexa, el cerebro de la domótica desarrollado por Amazon.

Pero sin lugar a dudas, el punto más llamativo es la cámara. El Echo Show 8 incorpora una cámara de 13 megapíxeles que se desplaza y acerca la imagen durante las videollamadas, algo pensado para mantenernos siempre encuadrados. De esa forma, si nos movemos, la cámara se moverá para mantenernos en el centro. Es una función que viene del Echo Show 10, aunque no tan potente ya que no tiene una base giratoria.

La cámara, por cierto, no solo podremos usarla para hacer una videollamada con hasta siete personas, sino que también podremos usar el Echo Show 8 como una cámara de vigilancia. Desde la app de Alexa u otros dispositivo Echo Show podremos acceder a la imagen en tiempo real de la cámara del Echo Show 8 para ver nuestra casa en directo.

Nuevo Echo Show 8 (2.ª generación, modelo de 2021) | Pantalla HD inteligente con Alexa y cámara de 13 MP | Antracita

Amazon Echo Show 5: más pequeño y con mejor cámara

Amazon Echo Show 5.

El Echo Show 5, por su parte, es igual al modelo anterior. Tiene una pantalla de cinco pulgadas y está disponible en un nuevo color (azul marino). Por lo demás, y a priori, es similar al Echo Show 5 que teníamos hasta ahora. Desde la pantalla podremos acceder a contenido en streaming, a información de todo tipo y a Alexa para controlar la domótica.

¿Dónde está el cambio, entonces? En la cámara. El dispositivo tiene una cámara HD con el doble de píxeles, algo pensado para hacer videollamadas. Como el modelo anterior, también se puede acceder al feed de la cámara en tiempo real para ver cómo está la casa y que todo está en orden. Como el Echo Show 8, el Echo Show 5 también tiene cubierta para la cámara.

Nuevo Echo Show 5 (2.ª generación, modelo de 2021) | Pantalla inteligente con Alexa y cámara de 2 MP | Antracita

Versiones y precio de los Amazon Echo Show 8 y Echo Show 5 (2021)

Amazon Echo Show 5 y Amazon Echo Show 8.

El Echo Show 8 está disponible en color antracita y blanco, mientras que el Echo Show 5 lo está en antracita, blanco y azul marino. Se pueden reservar desde hoy y los envíos comenzarán a lo largo del mes que viene. El Echo Show 8 vale 129,99 euros y el Echo Show 5 se queda en 84,99 euros.

Nuevo Echo Show 8 (2.ª generación, modelo de 2021) | Pantalla HD inteligente con Alexa y cámara de 13 MP | Antracita

Nuevo Echo Show 5 (2.ª generación, modelo de 2021) | Pantalla inteligente con Alexa y cámara de 2 MP | Antracita

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Tus dudas sobre la Create Ikohs Fryer Air Pro tienen premio: participa y gana una de estas freidoras de aire caliente

Los alimentos fritos están deliciosos, pero comerlos en exceso no es recomendable si se quiere llevar una vida saludable por el exceso de grasas y calorías que tienen. Si te has planteado adquirir una freidora sin aceite pero no te decides, tus dudas pueden llevarte a ganar una Create Ikohs Fryer Air Pro totalmente gratis con este sorteo de Create Ikohs y Xataka.

Cómo ganar una freidora Create Ikohs Fryer Air Pro

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3. Déjanos en los comentarios una pregunta sobre las dudas que tengas acerca de la Create Ikohs Fryer Air Pro en la publicación de Instagram.

Como veis, los pasos a realizar son muy sencillos. El sorteo estará vigente y podrás participar hasta el próximo día 9 de mayo (domingo) de 2021 a las 23:59 horas. El sorteo solo es válido para España. Tienes toda la información y las bases legales disponibles aquí.

La Create Ikohs Fryer Air Pro es una freidora de aire caliente con la que es posible comer nuestros alimentos favoritos con un resultado igual de crujiente que si se cocinara con aceite, pero, además, de una manera más limpia, sin humos y sana. Con una capacidad de 3,5 litros para cuatro raciones, es programable, viene con varias recetas preinstaladas y ofrece también la función de horno.

¡Mucha suerte!

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