Ask HN: How many computers you got?

1 x Debian (main server)

1 x Debian mini ITX server running Zoneminder for CCTV cameras

1 x 'spare' mini ITX cube running Debian as a services backup (email and Web stuff)

1 x Quad core fanless mini ITX thingy running the house home automation (Debian, Node-RED, MQTT, Zigbee2MQTT, Mosquitto)

1 x Asus i5 desktop for main home office. 6 core + 32GB RAM for virtualisation. Dual boot.

1 x DIY i7 3rd gen (old desktop)

1 x Asus Zenbook flip - home work and travelling laptop

1 x Lenovo T420 + dock. Previous round-the-house 'portable' workstation

1 x Raspberry Pi 3 as a media client hooked to my hifi for synced room-room audio

2 x Raspberry Pi 3 for STEM development and STEM days

1 x Raspberry Pi 4 for STEM development and STEM days

3 x retired laptops with some 'emergency' mileage in them, or take to STEM days

1 x Lenovo Thinkstation (retired desktop from the Mrs)

Samsung tablet

Motorola G8 phone

I want to keep the number low (I don't like e-waste):

Laptops:

- Macbook Pro (2021), M1, 16Go: my only personal machine. I play video games using services like Shadow or GeForce Now, I want my setup to be small.

- My work laptop, employer issued.

Servers:

- 1st gen Surface Book: currently works as a home server, used to be my student laptop, soon to be retired with...

- Core i7 3700 (something like that), 16Go DDR3: an old machine I got for free yesterday, than I will put in a small mini-ITX case to work as a full-time home server (mainly storage). It will end up at the bottom of a small shelf, and needs to be completely silent.

My servers all run NixOS.

I make backends for online games.

The reason I have so much power is that I spin up many multiples of datacenters to test failure modes among components, it's also nice to be able to run full-fat gameservers.

Could do it in the cloud but it ends up taking longer, is harder to automate and winds up being much more expensive very quickly.

I have computers in my heat pump water heater, at least 4 in my 2 heat pump HVAC systems, at least 4 in the 4 TVs in the house, at least 2 in game consoles, at least 1 in the Apple TV, at least one in each car, probably one in each refrigerator, washer, dryer, dishwasher, microwave, instant pot, etc., at least 1 in the 8 laptops, 1 Mac Pro desktop, 4 chrome books, 4 iPads, 6 phones, 3 kindles, 1 printer, 1 headless computer to handle all the home automation sensors, etc. in the house, at least 1 in each router/hub/etc. I also have a bunch of older computer equipment that isn’t plugged in right now. Hmm, as I sit here thinking about it I keep coming up with more and more things that have computers in them. I’d be hard pressed to give an exact number.