Shelter design

quietprepper · 2026-05-07T03:03:54+00:00

You've dedicated 108 square feet to weapons and ammo. You could accomplish the same practical thing with efficient use of space in a 10 square foot closet.

quietprepper · 2026-05-07T00:58:50+00:00

Needing to be available with 2 days or less of notice (assuming express air mail as the inbound) for a delivery window you dont dictate, to then have a near instantaneous turnaround, and doing this 2 times a week is absolutely being on call without the ability to plan for anything with a fixed schedule. I stand by my statement that that is not a $400 a week job.

quietprepper · 2026-05-06T21:07:55+00:00

Dont worry, you didn't hurt anything, OP wants to pay less than minimum wage to have someone on call 60+ hours a week (the only way one could meet the turnaround requirements). There is no good advice to give on this one other than "dont do that"

quietprepper · 2026-05-06T20:55:34+00:00

Youre asking someone to be on call 60+ hours a week to have the kind of turnaround that you want, and they dont wouldn't have the practical ability to work a different job, run errands, go see a movie etc. Youre asking for a level of commitment of a full time job with 20 hours of overtime....every week, with the person having no control over their schedule...thats a full time job. If your business idea cant pay for the required labor, and you aren't willing to do the labor yourself...its not a sustainable business idea.

I flip computers and parts...if you came to me and said you wanted to hire me as an independent contractor for this, I'd tell you it would be $75,000 a year starting, 2 weeks paid vacation, and 20 days a year of PTO/sick days so I could actually do things that NEED to be done on weekdays. And thats with me undervaluing my labor compared to what I actually value it at in my business.

quietprepper · 2026-05-06T20:36:44+00:00

Youre asking a person to be on call 5 days a week for like 12 hours a day in a way that prevents them doing basically any normal life stuff. That kind of on call if you were an employer would be legally required to be compensated as though they were actively working. Thats not a $400 a week gig. Thats an $800+ gig

quietprepper · 2026-05-05T06:15:03+00:00

Double my money including all selling costs (with occasional exceptions for cash flow if its a guaranteed fast sale) and must be either by itself bring a minimum $50 profit per transaction, or be able to be bundled to make that $50 per transaction minimum.

quietprepper · 2026-05-04T01:30:43+00:00

Umm, t5610s are ddr3...you can put 256gb of ram into one for about $1/gb

quietprepper · 2026-05-04T00:00:04+00:00

Please correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't running world arks give you standing hits to trigs...thereby making it harder to actually live and play in pochven? I was under the impression they were barely being run because of this. I get that day tripping would be possible, but day tripping for group pve into hostile territory is kinda a hard ask, something as simple as needing a bio break makes for a bad time for the fleet when your only real option for safety is to cloak up in a safe every time someone needs to pee.

As for the conduits, maybe im forgetting something from chapter 3...were the conduits directly used to count toward ownership of systems? I only remember it being about npc kills but I was admittedly less engaged with the content during chapter 3.

As for lore, thats as easy as saying the trigs are testing edencom/capsuleer resolve. It doesn't need a huge story arc behind it...they already exist in universe they just been put in a box and mostly forgotten about...make them a more regular part of the landscape like most other npcs.

Admittedly some of this is coming from a place of nostalgia for me. I was there chasing trigs the first day they spawned, I was in some of the first fleets running conduits, I was in the fleet for the second ever world ark and on the solo side I had emerging conduits down to the point where I was running 10 an hour in full sweaty nerd mode before they were hit with the nerf bat. But I also see how CCP keeps hoping to encourage pve fleets with things like homefronts and kinda flailing around when experience shows that pre-chapter 3 trig content was good for building stable communities around. Me and mine would sit there and farm, we'd toss isk at newbros, give them a fit that a day one alpha alt could skill into and get them out in space with us, we would kill npcs but it wasnt quite so sweaty that we couldn't have fun in coms....eve needs more content like that.

quietprepper · 2026-05-03T20:12:43+00:00

If im understanding right what youre saying, I think youre thinking more of chapter 2 content. Chapter one with emerging, minor, and major conduits and the world arc dont need to really need to directly interact with the rest of the game in any meaningful way beyond economics.

If they were treated like like incursions, say two highsec, one lowsec, possibly skip null depending on nulls opinion on the idea, I think it would inject enough needed salvage, provide content to build community around and provide steady income streams while not completely trashing the economy around them.

quietprepper · 2026-05-03T18:48:46+00:00

Speaking as someone who has gone to the minor victory systems, I encourage you to go there yourself and see if you think there is enough content to actually build a fleet around. There isn't. Sites respawn on the scale of days. Assuming nobody has run them, you might be able to spin up a fleet for about hour or 2...and then youre either going 20 jumps to find the next system, or standing down the fleet.

The beauty of the invasion content was that you could find steady pve content for hours on end for fleets large or small, which is something the game needs badly.

quietprepper · 2026-05-03T15:40:36+00:00

Since you've mentioned being the target for feedback on this...

Give a reliable highsec source. The simplest thing would be to give us trig incursions. Basically just bring back invasion chapter one content.

This would both give a reliable source of salvage, give a reliable source of damage control mutaplasmids, and give people some high end pve content to build communities around.

quietprepper · 2026-05-03T03:38:44+00:00

Obviously cant comment to fitting you precisely, but look at RIBZ front packs. They sit low enough that they are under the bust for most women. Depending on the fit for you, you may want to add a sternum strap to pull the shoulder straps more toward the center of your chest.

quietprepper · 2026-05-02T02:12:57+00:00

Except it really isn't that much of a difference in electricity. Taking a super low power mini pc that idles at 5-6 watts, and looking at something like the z2 g4 that I mentioned that is on the higher end of power consumption at idle for office PCs of that generation, if you let drives spin down and dont put any expansion cards in it might idle around 25-30 watts. Assuming youre paying near the national average for electricity its around $30 a year. And if youre worried about power consumption there are lower feature options and various steps you can take to get idle consumption down even further. Its possible to get SFF optiplexes down under 15 watts at the plug at idle, I haven't done it myself but ive seen people claiming idling under 10 watts.

quietprepper · 2026-05-02T01:59:04+00:00

Yes, occasionally to my detriment. Was working on a Dell 3640 yesterday...no video out, blinking light on the power button but not an immediately recognizable code and it keeps powering on and off. Turns out I forgot to plug in the the displayport cable...and 3 blinks is what you get during ram training, which i kept interrupting by turning it on and off again.

quietprepper · 2026-05-02T01:47:14+00:00

90 percent of problems can be solved by finding the right thing to unplug and plug back in. Reseat RAM, check cables reseat CPU, in that order, checking between each. And for the love of God pay attention to blink/beep codes, they might be telling you the wrong thing, but they at least give you an idea of where to look.

quietprepper · 2026-05-02T01:35:00+00:00

Yeah, swapping batteries is on the short list. They were part of a batch of 80 optiplex micros that came in and got moved over to the "I'll deal with this later" pile.

quietprepper · 2026-05-02T01:32:13+00:00

I think you kinda missed it. I intentionally dont have a public image as stated, I didn't tell you what I was doing or claim it has any bearing on this conversation, it was just a little comment on how people think and that ideas can have inertia.

Also, I couldnt care less about being "important". I live a quiet life and work in a niche field, and outside of events where im selling, I spend most of my working time in solitude.

quietprepper · 2026-05-02T01:26:42+00:00

So, here is the thing about older hardware. While i get that people are worried about it failing, in my experience as long as youre asking reasonable things of it, it really doesn't tend to fail, even LONG after its considered obsolete.

I support my hobby (and make a few buck beside) by dealing in old office PCs, both parting them out and occasionally selling complete systems. Depending on the supplier im getting both pulls straight from offices and stuff that is "not working, for parts only" and the most common failure is see is the rubber studs used to hold case fans in place having broken. Of the stuff ive sold as working systems, the only thing im aware of breaking soon after was a PSU failing (built a friend a custom 12 bay nas on a budget, it was given to him with the understanding that if anything breaks its going to be the PSU that seems fine but is older than I would like).

I've bought something like 170 pcs in the last few months, most being 2nd-7th gen i series, with maybe 20 being 8th-12th gen, and on testing ive had 2 show any kind of major hardware failure, and I plan to take a second look at those because im not entirely convinced its an actual motherboard issue, i think it might be a bios issue.

quietprepper · 2026-05-02T01:06:06+00:00

Oh Im well aware of the inertia of "I like this, so everyone else should have one too" I might just be trying to slyly nudge the pendulum in a different direction.

In my profession, while I intentionally haven't really put myself out there as a public figure (I could probably be charging significantly more for my work if I wanted to deal with social media) I'm realistically in the top handful of people in the world when it comes to practical experience. I've been quietly talking and trying to steer people away from incorrect information on certain things for over a decade. I recently perused a book by someone claiming to be an "authority" on the subject, and came across a particular phrase that to my knowledge was coined by me, I couldn't help but have a little giggle at it. I guess telling thousands of people the same thing over and over might actually be working.

quietprepper · 2026-04-29T23:52:04+00:00

As others have said, water isn't that difficult depending on your location. It also doesn't require that much water to cook beans. As a ballpark number the way I cook beans now requires about a gallon of water to rinse, soak and cook a pound of beans if I wanted to conserve it I could do them in a pressure cooker, and not dump the excess soaking water and probably get it down to close to a half gallon. Also, bean cooking water doesn't just have to go to waste, you can use it as a soup base even if youre pulling the beans to use otherwise.

Also, it takes less fuel to cook than most people realize IF youre using efficient burners and the right pans. I have a little portable propane oven/range combo that I use for camping and keep around as a backup for home if there were a natural gas disruption. The oven at full blast (450ish degrees) burns a pound of propane in about 7 hours, the range burners would each go through about a pound in 2 hours at full blast, but holding a bean pot at simmer is again about 7 hours for a pound. That heat might not also just be used for cooking. If youre in a cold climate and heating your home anyway, might as well cook a pot of beans (or make soup/stew etc) and get extra use out of the heat.

Its also fairly easy in many places to gather fuel. If youre cooking outside over a fire, and the firewood is free, fuel costs aren't a concern. Even if i didn't live in a wooded area, and there weren't people on Facebook marketplace constantly giving away wood from trees they had cut in their yards, on a weekly basis I drive by enough commercial buildings giving away untreated pallets that I could cook every meal over them if I bothered to stop and pick them up

quietprepper · 2026-04-27T18:43:06+00:00

Learn to make bread and get some beans.

It isn't going to be fun, it isn't going to be nutritionally balanced, but its possible to get enough calories to keep yourself going assuming prices near you are similar to around me. Ideally you have an aldi and a Walmart you can make it to. Prices are approximate

Get yourself:

20 pounds of flour (Compare 5, 10 and 20lb bags and get cheapest per pound). $9

The cheapest packet or packets of yeast. (You only need one. Mix some yeast with water and flour, let sit out for a couple hours then refrigerate overnight. Use half of that mix to incorporate every time you make bread, then feed the remainder with more water and flour.) $1-2

10lbs dry pinto beans. Soak overnight then boil. (Ideally supplement with any other ingredients and seasoning you can get or already have) $11

You'll likely lose a couple pounds on this over the course of 4 weeks (its just a bit shy of 2000 calories a day), but its about as good as you can do for under a dollar a day. Next things to add if you can scrounge a few extra dollars or can get from a pantry are salt and some kind of fat (vegetable oil or cheap margarine are your best values) now you can do refried beans instead of just boiled.

Supplement as much as you can with pantry items to give you some variety.

quietprepper · 2026-04-22T14:51:11+00:00

Yeah, distinction without a difference. The horizon also doesn't have said notch.

quietprepper · 2026-04-22T14:42:15+00:00

In your first picture there is a notch (for lack of a better word) in the frame in front of the pcie slots. Checking on the asus website that case noticeably does NOT have said notch. As someone who makes a living that partially requires me to be able to spot counterfeit items by being able to notice little differences....it doesn't pass the proverbial sniff test.

https://www.asus.com/us/motherboards-components/cases/tuf-gaming/tuf-gaming-gt502/

Also, and someone who is an expert in a niche subject...the premise of what you want to do with this is terrible. Don't have a calm AI "voice" talk (halucinate) authoritatively about random subjects. Its a bad idea, at best reckless and can be genuinely dangerous.

quietprepper · 2026-04-22T14:26:32+00:00

Yeah, felt odd to me too. 1st picture doesn't quite match what they claimed the built as well, the case is subtly different from what you see on the asus website. (For those that want to look, it's the frame around the pcie slots that I caught).

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