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Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

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Post by wink » 

  * 2 gaming pcs, 1 soho server - all in active use
  * 1 gaming laptop, 1 work laptop, 1 thinkpad - all in active use
  * 1 NAS, 1 Lenovo x230 - NAS is off atm, the x230 is my travel laptop and I don't travel
  * 2 laptops from 2004, one is my OpenBSD playground, 1 is an offline-only DVD player ;)
  * 2 hand-me-down laptops I can hand out to friends and family as backup machines
  * 1 RPi that's not really in use anymore
so I'd say 5 of them get used every week (some every day), 1-3 every month or so - that's for 2 people

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

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Post by johngo54 »

In our household: 1 MSI Gaming laptop (needs repair, but still works), 1 Asus K53 laptop (still good, no longer in use), 1 Custom-built Desktop PC (no longer in use), 2 Asus Vivobooks (one for me, one for wife), 1 Raspberry Pi 3B+, 1 Raspberry Pi 4B, 1 Synology DS213j (which is, in fact, a Linux computer, right?), 1 Synology DS716+II (which can, in fact, be used as a computer; running Docker)

Does a Virtual Private Server count? Running one on Strato's infrastructure.

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

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Post by simonsarris »

Zero TVs, IoT devices, home automatons, etc. I generally dislike anything that beeps, anything with LEDs. Though I built my own house, I don't even own a microwave. The stove is gas. I like candles. In winter we heat with firewood. Though I have ornamental gardens, I have no watering timers, I water everything by walking around and pointing at it with the hose.

for what are called computers:

1 desktop - a 2013 box that I built

1 laptop - a Microsoft surface

1 phone - a pixel 5

1 camera - Leica Q2 (well and a Praktica MTL5 made in East Germany)

And one kindle. And an iPad, for work testing. I'm a web developer. I love technology. But it has to feel and serve very human purposes to be worthwhile.

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

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Post by tcmart14 »

A bit of a collection my wife wishes wasn't so much of a collection.

- M1 Macbook Air base model (Usual daily driver) - Lenovo Ideapad S340 (For testing stuff on windows) - Macbook 2007 (all white polycarbonate, kind of my main Netbsd machine) - iBook G4 (Eventually want to take on the crazy project of writing an OS for it) - A dell netbook (can't remember the exact model, for any odd purpose that fits the day) - Mac mini 2009 (serves as a little test server, running NetBSD) - Raspberri Pi 4B (FreeBSD)

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

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Post by iKnowKungFoo » 

  Desktop PC - General browsing and light gaming.
  Laptop PC - Work
  15" Macbook Pro (Intel) - Work (deprecated)
  16" Macbook Pro (M1 Max) - Work
  iPhone 13 Pro Max
  iPad Pro M1
  Amazon Fire tablet for guest access to wireless audio.
Monitors

  3 x 27" Acer IPS 2k monitors
  3 x 27" LG IPS 4k monitors
Protip: A 27" 4k monitors is a waste of a 4k monitor. Text is waaaay too small for coding at that resolution.

Everything else has been sold or recycled. I used to have PILES of desktops and servers, but I got over my nostalgia years ago.

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

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Post by theandrewbailey »

1 gaming desktop (custom build: Win 10, Ryzen 1800X, 64GB RAM, RX 6800, 2x 28" 4k 144hz) [0]

1 server (custom build old desktop: i7 2600, 16 GB RAM)

1 laptop (HP, 2015)

1 work laptop (Dell Latitude, 2017-ish)

1 retro desktop (2000-era custom build: Win 98 SE, P3, 256 MB RAM, Geforce 2, 17" CRT) [1]

That's 5 PCs, but I also have:

1 Raspberry Pi (original model B)

1 Moto X4

1 Kindle Fire (2013-ish?)

[0] https://theandrewbailey.com/article/187/AMD-Ryzing

[1] https://theandrewbailey.com/article/120/Project-Twentieth-Ce...

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

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Post by ravenstine »

My stuff:

Macbook Air M1 13" (2021), my primary computer

Macbook Pro 15" (2015), chronically broken keyboard, used now as a remote Docker host and Bitcoin/Lightning node

Google Pixel 5, rooted and ~90% degoogled

Raspberry Pi 2 Model B v1.1, used for various projects

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