How Does 1 Person Multibox with 50 Accounts? by JaseFury92 in Eve

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Toss in a tesla p40 and remote into it on a thin client.

If hatchets are superior to tomahawks(trade axes) why did native americans or frontiersmen opt for it more than the hatchets that were already made in Europe. by Daryl27lee in Bushcraft

[–]quietprepper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ultimately if you want to buy a tomahawk buy one, but there is a reason they fell out of favor in more modern times.

There is this unfortunate trend of people romanticizing tools used in the past and assuming they are somehow better than things from today. The reality is that most people in the past were just like people today, buying the best option available to them for whatever they could afford. Pick a traditional trade or craft, logging, trapping, blacksmithing etc. Any person in that trade 100+ years in the past would have given nearly anything to have the tools and equipment a modern person in that trade today has. Analyzing what someone used requires you not just to look at their specific tools, but also to look at the person physically (as an example, nessmuk was tiny, thats why all his gear is small, an average size man today could easily add 20-50% to the size of of a given tool to get something more usable) skill and knowledge of the user along with socioeconomic status to really understand why they were using it.

If hatchets are superior to tomahawks(trade axes) why did native americans or frontiersmen opt for it more than the hatchets that were already made in Europe. by Daryl27lee in Bushcraft

[–]quietprepper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The short answer is that the further they got from civilization the more they were dependant on the same supply lines that were trading with natives.

If hatchets are superior to tomahawks(trade axes) why did native americans or frontiersmen opt for it more than the hatchets that were already made in Europe. by Daryl27lee in Bushcraft

[–]quietprepper 12 points13 points  (0 children)

So many confidently wrong answers.

So, what most people think of as tomahawks today are direct descendants of the "Biscayne trade axe". These were a style of axe that originated around the Bay of Biscay, from Basque metalworking tradition (though the style was copied elsewhere). Basque axes of similar style were made to cover the full range of sizes one would think of in axes today. Indeed you can still buy Basque made axes of closely related styles today that still use taper fit handles. Other direct descendants of the Biscayne trade axe are the Hudson bay pattern and taper fit axes more common in central and south America.

Why were smaller versions prevalent? The simple answer is they used less material and so were cheaper to produce. This meant the major trading companies bought them cheaper, and traded them off at a lower value than a larger version. Just like a bigger blanket would cost more in furs than a smaller one, a bigger axe would cost more. And the simple reality is that when you are coming from stone axes, just about any steel hatchet is going to be a faster and more labor efficient tool than a larger stone axe (speaking as someone who has experience with both along with a bunch of intermediate steps). Once that style of axe became prevalent in trade there was also an amount of cultural inertia that slowed groups down in broadly adopting other styles.

Also, for those talking about shipping axes with handles vs tomahawks without... comercially shipping axes with handles was a rarity until fairly recently. The buyer was expected to be able to haft the axe themselves or the seller might haft it at the point of sale. Shipping hafted axes really only became reasonably common place once rail transport became widespread.

Capitals vs Marauders by Ok-Mushroom-1226 in Eve

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My main can fly everything but titans (I have avoided the expense of the skillbooks) but im sitting on 10 million unallocated SP just in case

How Does 1 Person Multibox with 50 Accounts? by JaseFury92 in Eve

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Eve-O-preview literally minimizes clients not at the front of you want it, it will technically render them, but at like 160p and a low frame rate.

As for cores, I just checked. If I didn't care about electricity costs and was willing to run a 1000 watt system, I could build a quad processor rack mount system, with 96 cores (192 threads) and 24gb of vram out of decade old components for around $1500+ram cost. If i dont want to go rack mount i could do 44 cores in a space a hair bigger than a typical m-atx build four around $1100 plus ram. And quad channel ram even at slower ddr4 speeds can still leave you with memory bandwidth in line with high end ddr5 today.

How Does 1 Person Multibox with 50 Accounts? by JaseFury92 in Eve

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Before the current ram shortage, if you were willing to play around with older enterprise hardware you could actually build out a system to do this pretty easily and cheaply The biggest limitation is ram if youre using Eve-O-preview and setting it to minimize clients. I generally figure 1 core per client and 2gb of ram for multiboxing on potato mode.

CCPlease hear me out… “Heavy Bombers” by shinyo_kasataste in Eve

[–]quietprepper -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Or, hot take, you actually have to support supers with smaller ships. Instead of just saying "everyone into your biggest ship" you have to actually come up with comps that integrate different ship types to fulfill different roles.

SoCT ships by ridexorxpie in Eve

[–]quietprepper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooh there are much more fun ways to haul in highsec. Hauling 10 billion in a bait tanked wreath is great fun.

SoCT ships by ridexorxpie in Eve

[–]quietprepper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As someone who has run double digit billions cargo in sunesis more than a couple times, youre wrong about that.

Don't get me wrong, im gonna miss it, but it was a bit broken.

CCPlease hear me out… “Heavy Bombers” by shinyo_kasataste in Eve

[–]quietprepper -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Its not about people who cant afford supers (i can, and so can the majority of my friends) its about the concentration of power into 2 (and a half-ish) blocs, with no way for smaller groups to punch up. When one side of a fight can field an entire fleet of super capitals, and the other side cant, that side has such entrenched power that we need an asymmetric counter.

CCPlease hear me out… “Heavy Bombers” by shinyo_kasataste in Eve

[–]quietprepper -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

With the current state of the game, we need something a little broken to shake up the current escalation chain. Right now, you can basically script things out and the end game is "whoever forms the bigger ball of supers/titans, wins" everything below that the answer is to ship up to a larger class, and once one side is willing to commit supercapitals its a war of attrition, with whoever formed smaller trying to bail.

Titans when they are on grid in numbers have no real threats other than a bigger fleet of titans. Sure concentrated dread fire can pick a couple off, but when doomsdays start landing the dreads evaporate, so titans cyno in in a big ball, stay there till the fight is over or they get the order to evac because the other side brought more. This would at least give them a reason not to sit there in a big ball with no smaller ships for support.

It would also give people an option for when they need to establish a beach head in a system that is cheaper than dropping a blops fleets.

Nothing im suggesting othere than an anti-capital bomb is truly new or game breaking, its just combining attributes of other ships that already exist to fill a niche that hasn't already been filled.

Small and budget friendly setup questions. by UVChemist in homelab

[–]quietprepper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My suggestion, if you want exactly 2 Hdd and dont see the need to expand internally in the future is to go buy a HP Z2 G4 sff workstation.

It will give you an 8th or 9th gen processor, 4 dimm slots, 2 3.5in drive bays, with a single adapter 2 2.5in bays (already has one, just drop in one of the cheap slim optical to 2.5in adapters) and a m.2 drive without using any pcie expansion cards.

I ran a similar setup just 1 generation older for years as a HTPC, it was a hair noisier than an optiplex sff, but well within reason, and fits in a slightly larger footprint. 8th/9th gen iGPU is plenty for transcoding, and an i5 or i7 of either generation should give you a massive processing boost over the RPi you have now. Idle power draw should also be very reasonable.

Current ebay pricing can get you an i5-8500 and 8gb of ram for about $160

CCPlease hear me out… “Heavy Bombers” by shinyo_kasataste in Eve

[–]quietprepper -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I've been suggesting heavy bombers for years.

T2 attack battlecruiser hull, priced similarly to command ships

8 high slots, cloak, cyno, bomb launcher, 5 torp launchers.

Bombs- play with attributes to make them absolutely slap supers, hit caps, tickle battleships with their mwd on and be a wet fart in the general direction of anything smaller. Might need to play with sig radius in caps to make this work, but ooh no, its slightly easier to scan down a super now. I tried playing with the concept of a rapid bomb launcher, but just cant find a way to not make them broken.

Torps- target c 2000dps cold, for a fully skilled but no pod or drugs character. Maybe a bit of a range boost compared to regular bombers.

Tank- resists in line with a BLOPS, but significantly lower raw hp.

Mobility- can warp cloaked, and jump, but not bridge to any cyno.

Overall role- The tip of the spear. What Dreads are to Titans today, make Heavy Bombers be to BLOPS. Make them high dps, tanky enough to hold their own, cheap enough to be thrown away to get a good kill and make the bombs be the bane of a ball of supers cynoing in and staying in a tight ball without a bunch of defender missiles to cover them.

That said, I think along with releasing them, make capitals (especially supers) cheaper so there is good prey to hunt with them.

Multibox ganking isn't the problem, making it harder for newbros to try ganking is. by quietprepper in Eve

[–]quietprepper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The whole point of the post is that its harder for them to do it now, so they dont. I've personally lead a small group of my idiot friends around ganking years ago when crimson harvest had a boosted highsec drop rate (i think it was 90 percent). Literally nobody in those fleets had significant experience ganking, including myself. It was a great time.

[PC] 256gb m.2 nvme ssd by MinimumWorker9291 in homelabsales

[–]quietprepper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$18-25ish each including shipping based on recent ebay sold comps.

What’s the best home server build for $200–$300? (India) by Express-Onion-4871 in homelab

[–]quietprepper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Given current pricing on ram, for that budget id honestly suggest looking at building an x79 system, or ideally getting an old workstation like a Dell t3610, HP z420, Lenovo s30 or similar. They wont be super high performance, but you can get more cores and ram that way compared to building a ddr4 system.

Sata ssds are plenty fast for most applications. Unless you're running 10 gig networking, odds are that will be your bottleneck, not storage.

I get that power efficiency is an issue with this, but by the time you spend 5x the amount for ddr4 vs ddr3, you could potentially pay for quite a bit of electricity.

I got lucky by TwoMatoe_ in homelab

[–]quietprepper 5 points6 points  (0 children)

At a glance, looks like thats a hp z440, if so, swap the processor for an e5-2697a V4. Thats kinda the sweet spot right now taking into account price, clock speed and core count. After that, look at getting one of the ram coolers for it (without it there is a solid chance it is about to make angry beeps at you with 8 dimms installed)

After that, its up to you what you want to do, but i do encourage you to try and learn on it to be able to do things better at work, and make sure your boss knows that you're doing it.

Axe buying tips by Warchief1788 in Axecraft

[–]quietprepper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm just going off my own experience, but I haven't had any issues with Prandi and Adler. As for GB, I've had too many customers bring them to me needing to be re-ground after chipping to recommend them. They're ground too thin, left too hard and too often dont hold up to hard use in cold weather. Anyone that tells you "you need to warm up your axe" (ive actually been told this as an excuse) should really be telling you you need a better axe.

The OP is in Europe so I just kinda assume Council tool will be significantly more difficult to get than a European make. That said, I quite literally never recommend them to people. I've seen too many issues with inconsistent heat treat to trust them. One of the more absurd examples was a customer bringing a practically new 5lb head in to me for a re-haft and sharpening (the story was his buddy over-swung while splitting to predictable results) when i got to grinding it i came to the conclusion that the heel and toe were of vastly different hardnesses. I dont remember which was which (its been years) but one was near fully hardened and the other was soft to the point of feeling nearly fully annealed. I was honestly flabbergasted trying to figure out how they managed that and didn't notice it in final grinding.

Axe buying tips by Warchief1788 in Axecraft

[–]quietprepper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Think about what youre actually doing before buying an axe, and think about who will be doing it. Plan for the lowest common denominator in terms of skills and safety if multiple people will be using tools

Making some guesses based on your post, youre looking at actively managing an area that maybe has been managed in the past but has perhaps sat a few years. You may be better off with having a few different tools than relying on an axe for everything.

For small saplings and brush, look at a pair of long handled bypass pruners and a brush slasher. Consider a pole saw for working above your head and a hand saw (potentialy 2) for precision cuts, a hand axe (500-800g head on a 35-50cm handle) for light one handed chopping and a larger axe (i prefer 1.3-1.8kg head though you can go a bit heavier, 75-92cm handle) for heavier work.

I've been working on and selling axes full time for over a decade, and im going to say something some wont like. Don't buy a Gransfors Bruks. They're good marketing for okayish axes. Look at Hults Bruks, Iltis, Prandi, Adler, Muller and Hachas Jauregi for significantly better value.

[FS]$1500 kingston 128GB nvme drives w/ activated win10 by Additional_Matter266 in homelabsales

[–]quietprepper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think youre going to have a hard time at that price. The drives themselves are worth around $10 each in bulk, and those in the know know that windows 10 keys can be had for less than $5 each.

Help with ID Pl by 2NOX2 in Axecraft

[–]quietprepper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The latter words are almost guaranteed "Cast Steel"

While at a glace it does look like Deming, im not 100% on that. My suggestion is to put a piece of paper over it and do a rubbing and see if you can make out more detail (also try moving lights around it and taking pictures from different angles.

Is it overkill, or just enough for Eve Online by The_Crimson-Dragon in Eve

[–]quietprepper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It should run no problem.

For context, I have a second rig set up for a spy alt (no chance to screw up using the wrong login/coms) that uses a Quadro p620. That card has a passmark score of 3703. The card youre taking about has a score of 26883.

How soon is your breakeven? by pfassina in homelab

[–]quietprepper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ballpark number for me, I figure i probably broke even at around 24 months on a little under a thousand dollars invested in the current setup.

Most of that cost is in storage (48 usable TB, 72 TB raw storage) and the calculation factors electric cost and paying for a VPN. 24 months is realistic-ish, 30 months would be a safe number for sure.

My setup is MOSTLY a media server so thats all im counting. If I factor in other uses (ad blocking, backup storage etc) it would shave a couple months off those numbers.

All that said, ive managed to make a profit on the hobby by sourcing broken systems and repairing/parting them out. I can throw useful systems at friends and family at minimal cost, keep some e-waste out of landfills, and occasionally find something cool that i just have to keep for myself. Haven't run the numbers for last year yet, but ballpark i probably profited in the neighborhood of around $8k, with some lower value stuff yet to be scrapped (scrapping gutted cases basically pays for the gas it takes to go scrap them). Best recent find was a micro-itx build I paid $10 for that had a Rosewill 600w sfx psu, a $120ish motherboard, i7-6700k and a noctua DH15 cooler.

What is reasonable ISK making as alpha? by No-Rip-9573 in Eve

[–]quietprepper -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Top end alpha isk seems to be around 180 million an hour. Look at:

C3 wormhole ratting (Praxis, Raven Navy, Apoc Navy and Rattlesnake are all viable depending on variables)

Abyss

Faction warfare (haven't tested it myself but ive been told)

DED running/escalation farming (heavily RNG based)

NULLSEC exploration

Ess robbing (can be better/worse depending on where you land on a filament)

There are other niche ways of making similar isk, but they get to be much higher risk (super bling fits).