Things Are Getting Spicy: Round Two

 So two days ago we had a hostile group come right into our home system and drop a Minokawa right in our front yard which I went over in my other post "Things Are Getting Spicy". We brawled with that group and eventually won and defending our home, with our CEO doing a drive by doomsday on the hostile FAX literally deleting it from the game.

Last night the same hostile group showed up with a lot more friends and they attempted to drop a structure in our home. We quickly responded to this and we hot dropped right on top of them next to their structure and a multi-hour and multi-system brawl broke out:

https://br.evetools.org/br/69360f17439ce20012da7b36

Hostiles had another Minokawa on the field, being the same pilot as just the day before in our first home defense. The enemy mainly consisted of Widows and Hurricane Fleet Issues with various support ships. The small gang of Golems was a separate entity that showed up and started long range popping us off while we were trying to fight the HFI fleet.

We had just destroyed almost all the Widows and the Minokawa as the HFI fleet showed up in system and warped to us. The Golems showed up not too long after that.

We eventually managed to destroy the hostile structure while fighting the HFI fleet and they eventually started retreating. We figured we would get out as well, after doing some looting and salvaging of the field.

It wasn't too long after our fight ended that someone found out that the Golems that were third partying us got absolutely turbo dunked in another fight:

https://warbeacon.net/br/related/30005096/202512080100/

We were all laughing at this and both us and SLOW went our separate ways back to our home systems and stand down with objectives completed and a op success.

Then to top off the night we ended up getting a nice juicy snack in the form of a Pandemic Horde Athanor not too long after all this happened:

https://zkillboard.com/kill/131791670/

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Things Are Getting Spicy

We've had our fair share of hostiles roaming into our home space as well as various hot droppers coming through and logging off across various systems.

Last night though things got really spicy.

One of the hot droppers that comes around our space ended up coming with a full on fleet consisting of quite a few Widows with other subcap ships.

Things got spicy when that hostile group dropped a capital ship right in our front yard to our Fortizar. They dropped a Minokawa because they were struggling with our subcap response fleet.

We ended up brawling, losing ships and coming back. Our CEO, Zigam, eventually got tired of them having a FAX (Force Auxiliary) on grid and his response was to bring his Ragnarok into play and landed next to the hostile Minokawa and doomsdayed it into oblivion then took off.

Here is the battle report for that fight we had last night:

https://br.evetools.org/related/30002870/202512062300

Good fight to all.

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Debian: Absolute Perfection for Me

 I've been a Windows user since the 3.x days all the way up to Windows 11 and I appreciate what Windows does for the everyday user (apart from all the crap they have been cramming into Windows 11 lately).

My first venture into Linux was Ubuntu 8.04 back near the end of April 2008 and I thought it was pretty cool and definitely a different experience compared to Windows.

I never fully committed to Linux at the time though and had always kept a dual boot setup. After the years I switched from Ubuntu to Linux Mint and also thought Mint was really nice because it provided a more Windows style workflow.

Alongside Linux I kept my Windows updated and eventually found myself with just solely using Windows having sort of interest dropping out from Linux. This all started to change again as Windows 11 became more and more of a hassle and problematic.

Eventually the updates to Windows 11 started causing so much issues I eventually decided to fully switch to Linux and this time instead of Ubuntu or Linux Mint I opted to go all the way to the source with Debian.

I wiped my entire NVME out and installed Debian 12 (Debian 13 was not available at the time and was the Testing branch) and it was like a breathe of fresh air. Debian was perfection for me. Everything was so fast and responsive. It stayed out of my way and never bothered me. My overall CPU, GPU and RAM usage was so much better and battery life was just almost on par with Windows.

And then along came the Debian 13 release and I thought Debian 12 was nice. Debian 13 blew my mind with how much more snappy and responsive everything felt, due to the newer GNOME version as well as newer kernel and firmware.

It was during this time that I decided to never, ever go back to Windows. Debian is now my home.

So now I watch streamers running Windows 11 and just having constant problems and I want to say something about trying Linux instead, but I know it is isn't for everyone and I doubt most of the streamers I watch would take the time to try and learn it (and also the fact that OBS is a bit wonky on Linux and I don't know how things like WINE or Proton would handle people multi-boxing in say EVE Online).

Anyway I am satisfied with Debian and very happy with it and while I do appreciate what Ubuntu and Linux Mint have done and do for the overall community, I felt like Debian fits my workflow and philosophy more.

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Slimming Down: Multiple Account Edition

 If there is one thing about EVE, it's the fact that it has been designed from the ground up to encourage multiple accounts (and by extension multi-boxing as well).

I got sucked into that tunnel and I found myself with 3 different accounts on my launcher each time. My first one being my primary main nullsec character, the second being an industry focused alt and my third one was a highsec alt (for when nullsec got a bit too spicy and I just wanted to relax).

This was of course setting myself up for failure as my game time is sporadic and random throughout the day. I eventually started to fall behind on keeping up with my 2 alt accounts.

I figured it was time to slim down and I decided to drop both my industry and highsec accounts from my launcher and I plan to focus primarily on my main character, which is of course Carah Baxter.

This comes at a time when holidays are creeping up and as I mentioned in my post Rough Seas Ahead there is a possible incoming invasion into Dronelands (most likely being The Kalevala Expanse where I live since it is the closest to the freeport in LXQ2-T) by multiple hostile groups consisting of Red Alliance and their friends/pets from Providence.

It also makes more sense since we have to be combat ready and all hands on deck should an invasion into our home begin. I got a lot of modules shipped up to our home and multi-fitted a bunch of cheap T1 tackle frigates to use for our standing fleet, roams and future strat ops. It's nice having a jump clone down to the Paragon structure in Jita to be able to do shopping and then self destruct back to our home (after destroying and redoing the jump clone in Paragon since I am alpha and we are only allowed one jump clone).

After everything calms down and the new year comes into play I may get back into having multiple accounts, most likely getting my highsec account back into play moreso than my industry account.

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