FailForward @FailForward@qoto.org

@pony 😂

@leo Maybe you are just grumpy old man 🙂

@leo
Haha. We run on Unox 👅 @bellinghman

@pony The "lol" part? 😉 Seriously: apart from the "new day" (neutral?) no mention of anything remotely optimistic.

@pony Why so negative?

@trinsec Gini index @freemo

@pony There's one possible reason coming to mind why electricity could consumption be high: heating with it it. Or then a bunch of graphics cards in a closet 😄

@pony Do you have a smart meter at home, or is the old tech? The former makes debugging of such stuff easier. Of course only if you care and if you are tempted to do that.

@pony Seriously? What do you do with all that electricity on your own? I live with 2 youngsters and we consume 1,5.

## Quark cheesecake on puffy yeast dough base

Version #2 is already near perfect, it will only get better from here. in the future.

@hob #cakeposting

@academicalnerd

> I’m wondering if it’s prominent in other places as well.

I guess that heavily heavily depends on the social stratum AND age group, rather than geography. Over time I lived in several countries and the more the situation gravitates towards "family" (married vs. single, children vs. no kids, outgoing vs. couch-potatoes, etc.) the more people cook at home. Because they must/want/prefer/enjoy, whatever. Students would cook much less than 40-year olds with kids at home. And I think this is universally so. Now what you cook might differ very much. I know people who'd cook mostly from pre-made/frozen dishes/half-made ingredients, as well as those (like myself) making things "from scratch" (well, I obviously don't butcher my own meat, or grow pumpkins).

@academicalnerd Yes, I do and always mostly did regardless of the current (growing/shrinking) family config. I like good food and baking, so if I want to have it, I need to make it myself. I don't eat too much meat these years, but some yes. Lots of dairy, eggs, etc., trying to increase the vegetables proportion too. I found myself reducing meat mostly because of the carbon footprint reduction reasons, so 90% of my meat is either chicken and sometimes fish and sometimes pork - I almost totally removed beef, although a steak 1-2 times per year as a treat is still nice. But over the last years I found myself also watching my calories intake a lot. Not because I badly need it, my BMI is reasonably healthy at <22, but I run faster/longer/more efficiently when a few kgs lighter and that counts for me 🙂. But that is also reasonably easy, as the only thing I need to "guard" is to reduce snacks and sweets and that's it.

@academicalnerd I am thinking of you every now and then. Since I visit fedi only occasionally (let's call it intermittent), I easily miss your updates, so I need to explicitly go to your profile to check - like now. That + the "intermittent" leads to very occasional check-ins. Anyway, wishes of luck there and of course I am curious how's does your non-academic life _feel_ in the country which is becoming stranger to me day by day.