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Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

#61
2x Optiplex 7040's running ESXi

1x Optiplex 7050 running windows/hyper-v.

2x Synology diskstations (1 runs backups from the other)

2x rasperberry PI's running pikvm for the optiplexes

1x Raspberry Pi running a dakboard build.

1x 2012 Mac mini...was mostly used during COVID for WFH. I do some toying with garage band on it but thats about it.

Plus a laptop or two for myself/wife/kids.

11-12 Total I suppose. 9 or so pretty much 24/7

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

#62
-MacBook Air 1.2GHz quad-core Intel (use as a home entertainment center)

-Intel NUC i5 with 32g RAM (use for my self-hosted stuff)

-M1 Max MBP (use for daily driver, usually)

-System76 Thelio with 5950x and 64G RAM (use for heavy compute and US-based streaming)

-Raspberry Pi (pi-hole DNS)

-2014 MacBook Pro 16G RAM (old daily driver—incredible longevity)

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

#63

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 c…

Do you have different models of Kindle or all the same?

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

#64
- 1 main desktop pc - 2019 (i9 9th gen, nvidia 1080ti)

- 1 work laptop (zbook i9 11th gen, nvidia a200)

- 1 macbook (m1)

- 1 synology nas

- 1 wife laptop (very old netbook-like)

- 1 ipad (2018)

- 1 kid laptop for school (windows, i5 8th gen)

- 1 windows laptop (6th gen, nvidia 1060, used for kid gaming)

So that's 8 in total. Besides the xbox, a dormant nuc, a few smart phones, a hue hub, a couple of rpis, android tv, a few chromecast dongles, a nest, a couple of android tablets, a system for managing my solar panels, and maybe I forgot a few.

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

#66
1x MS Surface Book running Linux - my personal machine 1x Lenovo X1 (work issued) 1x Asus laptop (runs Windows 11) for my son’s school 1x MacBook Air (2013), too old but still runs like a charm 1x recent Mini ITX custom build for MS Flight Simulator 2020 (Windows 11) 1x HP Microserver Gen8 running TrueNAS Core, serving files to the home and backs up everything 1x Qotom with 4x LAN interfaces, my firewall running opnSense (FreeBSD based firewall) 1x beefy x64 server with Hetzner, running FreeBSD 13.0 - offsite backup from home NAS using ZFS / sanoid (thanks Jim Salter), mail, VMs, hosting for clients, backed up to offsite storage box using Borg

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

#67
- 2017 iMac with Linux ("light" general coding, note taking)

- 2021 Ryzen 24-core 64Gb RAM (heavier stuff, remote k8s dev, etc)

- 2021 Intel MBP (90% of the working time there)

- 2021 7-inch Pocket Book (for fun really. I call it my "Emacs machine")

Lying around:

- 2015(-ish?) Macbook Air, now with Linux. Such a great little thing, can't bear to get rid of it

- Half-a-dozen ugly, plasticky PC laptops. Did their job, but my eyes just refuse non-HiDPI screens nowadays.

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

#68
I built a good PC last summer to get more perfs and it's a joy to use: really silent compared to my laptop and so much faster.

Work computers running on Manjaro:

  - Desktop AMD 5800X with 32GB RAM, bought in 2021
  - Laptop Dell Precision 5520 with 32GB RAM, bought in 2017
Little homelab:

  - Ubiquiti Dream Machine
  - Synology NAS (DS918+)
  - 4x RaspberryPi 4 on Raspbian, forming a Kubernetes cluster with K3S
  - Ubiquiti UniFi Flex to power the Pis with PoE
Otherwise:

  - A reMarkable
  - A Chromecast Ultra used for streaming games from my computer to the TV with Steam Remote Play, also works when at a hotel (!)
  - A RaspberryPi 3 connected to speakers, running a simple PulseAudio server that I can remotely connect to to stream audio (very little latency compared to the misc AirPlay implementations I tested)

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

#69
I got a

- main desktop PC (AMD Ryzen 5950X, 64GB, 2TB SSD) I use for basically everything when I'm doing stuff at home (dual boot Linux/Windows)

- a recent 2021 14" MacBook Pro (which replaced an older 2016 MBP) for university

- a 4th-gen iPad Air with Pencil (mostly note-taking and occasional media consumption)

- my previous desktop PC (Intel 3770k, ~12TB storage) stuffed full of storage, just a place where I can throw data I don't immediately need anymore

- a Raspberry Pi 4 with a 512GB SSD attached, running some home services like DNS

So 5 in total not counting my phone.

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

#70
I'm going to count anything that I could program, script, or otherwise ask to run a computation.

(3) There's four of us humans in the house, but only three that you could ask to do some addition.

(1) The work computer is a HP z-book. It is a G3 model currently, but they're swapping it out for a newer one this month.

(1) The main daily driver for home is a Thinkpad 470s with openSUSE or Fedora on it.

(3) Several older laptops i've kept around as backups. They're in the closet.

(1) An older Synology 4-bay NAS.

(1) A Raspberry pi 4 hooked up to the TV.

(1) A Raspberry pi 3+ sitting in a box; I've been meaning to use if for DNS-based filtering.

(2) Two Mac devices the wife uses.

(2) Two smart phones.

(2) Two ebook readers.

(1) A kids kindle.

(4) 3D printer projects and other projects that have arduinos or something similar.

(2) Graphing calculators

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Total: 24

Not counting a broken dell G5 5505 that keeps going into the shop under warranty, the not-yet-delivered steamdeck, or the collection of slide rules.

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