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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?
An old HP laptop that works as a media center.
One Samsung android smartphone that is the daily driver. Has no SIM. Only wifi.
One old Samsung android smartphone that I had to retire because of lack of supply of replacement battery during Covid. But it has got 1/3rd power mAh-wise.
A Nokia android tablet (T20) for reading books of all kinds, research papers, etc.
An old Lenovo tablet I am looking to pawn.
A Kindle for reading non-fiction and novels.
A Raspberry Pi mainly for Edge AI model deployment tests, but also for studying ARM architecture, and fiddling with OS.
I guess the Arduino MC does not count.
So it totals up to 7/8.
- My personal MacBook Pro M1 (love this laptop)
- My gaming computer (I mostly use it to play MTGO but I mostly play PS5 nowadays)
- My wife's MacBook Air
- A tiny Linux box I play around with occasionally.
- A Raspberry Pi 400 I've done nothing with.
"Sort of computers": Wife and I each have an iPhone 11. Gave her my iPad Pro b/c she plays iPad games a lot and I took her very old iPad b/c I mostly just read books. We share an iPod touch for "just music" (like working out or cooking).
Gaming consoles: PS5 + external 5TB HDD, PS4 (mostly a FromSoftware machine for Bloodborne & Sekiro), Switch
1 Laptop
1 HTPC under the TV
All running Linux, fwiw
I'm not the biggest fan of the Apple ecosystem, but for the upfront purchase price, 3-5 years of life and able to sell them for 50% at the end of their "retail" lifespan, is a no brainer for me. The other alternative would be Thinkpads, but the nicer equipped ones really are marginally cheaper than a equally equipped macbook, before the M1 stuff.
If we're not counting virtual machines, then lately just two - a dev windows Laptop that's an XPS 13 and M1 which, with Parallels and Windows 11 (unfortunately not W10) comes pretty close to being what I need.
It used to be a time that I had a server at home that would run an array that'd hold storage and such, but lately it's just easier to have a virtual instance for that.
I have some Pi's also but they're not used really, but really just downsizing and not buying new shiny things, sounds hard, but silly enough it really helps to focus.
It also goes against the grain with me on how I used to enjoy hopping on every different distro and trying new things - Now I just don't have the time and enjoy being clutter free.
Old Cell phones are the worse, they usually aren't worth the resale pain of $30-60, unless you resell them on 1-2yr cycles and 3yrs for iphones.
6 or 7 Sun Machines, SGI O2, a few Cobalt RaQ (CacheRaQ, Velociraptor) (both MIPS and x86). Also in the basement.
5 HP Microservers (one with a "low power" Xeon running 24/7). ~50W
3 "Low power" Xeon servers (two 4 cores and one 20 cores). One running 24/7 ~60W.
3 Intel NUC's. One is my daily driver (FreeBSD).
15+ Laptops (mostly IBM/Lenovo), and even an old 386.
6 PCEngines APU4C4 (firewalls) two running 24/7 ~7W each.
7 Soekris NET4801, 2 NET4501 (my old firewalls and NTP servers).
7 Raspberry PIs (mostly 4s with 8GB).
My plan is to have one APU (~7W) + one Server ~60W running 24/7. I have 7 APC power units to allow me to turn all the other stuff on and off remotely. Most of this stuff is in my lab (GF decided I needed my own room for some reason). Most of the stuff not ready to run is stored in the basement.
I have a lot more than these but this is just from the top of my head. Pretty sure that I have 100+ all in all.
My Primary Home Laptop: T460s w Xubuntu, probably replacing with Ryzen Starbook
My Primary Home Desktop: Custom 10900X w 128G Ram W10 currently, moving to Xubuntu/KVM
SO Primary Home Desktop : Custom I5 8600 w 16G Ram W10
My Work laptop: Dell Precision 3551 (W10)
SO Work laptop: T460s (W10)
Primary Media Machine: Custom I5 8400 (W10)
Office Media Machine: Optiplex 3050 SFF (Xubuntu)
RPis: 2X RPI4 (media) 2X RPI3 (one camera, one media)
Servers: Dell R210 (pfsense), Dell R420 (hyper-v), HP G8 (Rosetta@home), Custom Supermicro for storage (Silverstone make sexy rack cases)
Historical Thinkpads: 365XD, 390X, A31P, T60P, Z61T, X200s, X200T, X220s, T420s, T430s
Historical Desktops: Tandy 1000 (MS-DOS X.XX), Packard Bell 486DX2 (W3.11), Custom P2 333 (W98SE), Custom Core 2 Quad (W7 32bit), Custom i7 980X (W7 64Bit), Custom i7 3970X (W10), Custom i7 6800k (W10)