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Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

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Post by Matthias247 »

iKnowKungFoo wrote: post #77

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…

> Protip: A 27" 4k monitors is a waste of a 4k monitor. Text is way too small for coding at that resolution.

Protip: Set them to 150 - 200% scaling and get way better font rendering and readability than with a lower-resolution screen, which makes it easier on the eyes. If things then get too big (because actually 4k at 24" would be more appropriate), reduce font-size by 1pt or so. 4k is not meant for use without scaling.

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

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Post by kradeelav »

This is a fun question. Not including family machines:

- (medical, in body) - cochlear implant ~1992

- (work laptop) ~ macbook pro ~2016

- (personal laptop, new) system76 lemur running ubuntu ~2021

- (personal laptop, drawing/old) macbook pro 2009

- (junk) 2020 asus laptop that i'll likely try to sell - failed ubuntu install. if it won't even sell, i'll turn it into a server.

- (gaming) nintendo gamecube, nintendo wii, nintendo switch, nintendo DS, nintendo 3DS, PS3

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

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Post by meristohm »

14-ish: a desktop, two laptops, two tablets, 5 (?) old Android phones, 3 iPhones (hand-me-downs), game console (mostly we watch movies with it), plus older phones destined for element-extraction.

The iPhone I use is from 2015, and the other two are more recent but too large. All the other computers are older than 2014 (I think; I'm beyond caring about acquiring new computers these days, as everything I have meets my wants, in part because I'm decreasing what I want).

For all I go on about reducing luxuries, having 14+ computers is in some ways like Uncle Scrooge swimming in his money bin. On the other hand, as my perspective shifts I'd feel far richer if I was part of a tight-knit community (fewer than 150 humans, say) that took good care of the land, water, and air and respected the downstream and downwind communities. Easily dismissed as romantic by those of us (myself included) who have come to normalize the fruits of easy access to massive amounts of energy.

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

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Post by the_third_wave »

About 6 laptops of older vintages - Thinkpad T42p, a few HPs with Core2duo CPUs, all of these with 2GB to 4GB of memory, a few retrofitted with SSDs (the T42p with a PATA-SATA adapter)

A rescued (dead graphics card) "late 2009" 27" iMac (running Linux) with a rescued 24" 1900x1200 monitor which I currently use as my main workstation

A DL380G7 with 128GB of memory running all services as well as a few VMs with different OSs to run things for which there is no Linux-version, e.g. VAG ELSA (repair manual for VAG cars).

An Intel SS4200 in use as a backup server

A number of Raspberry Pi's in use for experiments and as media players

About 5 older Android phones in use as IP camera, media player etc.

Everything runs either Linux or FreeBSD, the Android phones also run Linux for the most part (the ones used as IP-camera run Cyanogenmod).

No new hardware insight, everything is either dumpster dived or repaired.

My wife has a newish Dell running Windows 10 issued by her employer, my 10yo daughter uses a school-issued HP running Windows 10 and my 17yo daughter a school-issued Chromebook.

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

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Post by RattlesnakeJake »

* 2012 MacBook Air running macOS Big Sur. Used for general purpose web & document editing stuff these days.

* ~2011 Acer C710 ChromeBook running Ubuntu 21.10. Used for trying distros and development projects if I need a Linux base.

* Self-built Desktop PC - Core 2 Quad w/ 8GB RAM running Windows 11, somehow. Used mostly as an archive box due to the large HD and connection to an external backup drive.

And my wife has some Dell laptop she bought in college. I don’t know much about it because I haven’t had to do much to it besides put in an SSD.

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

Other than laptops and desktops (4 total) I have many custom devices I do embedded firmware consulting. Android touch-panel kiosk, pool pump controller, various phones and portable devices for testing code, auto-driving car network controller. A box full of development boards for small processors (Freescale, Nordic, STMicroelectronics) which run Linux or FreeRTOS or the like.

A closet with old Palm handhelds retooled to connect with some old Chinese Access Points, I forgot about those!

I recently divested myself of ancient computers, donated to a digital historian who restores that kind of stuff. Four (depending on how you count a multiprocessor cabinet, then 12)

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

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Post by pengo »

I've just sold my newest laptop as part of the sale of my business, which leaves me only:

- Dell XPS13 (16GB i7 but six years old) running Linux

- OneMix Yoga (7" micro laptop) running Linux

- Apple Mini (64GB i7) for music production

- Sony XA2+ phone running SailfishOS

- Blackberry Z30 phone as a backup

I will need to replace the Dell in the next year or so, and am considering both an M1 Macbook Pro and a Framework unless someone comes up with an open source ARM laptop running Linux.

(Edited for layout)

Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?

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Post by kingrazor »

I currently have 5 computers:

-A Nehalem i5 desktop that I built in 2010 and used as my main PC until 2021. It's currently running Windows XP and being used to play my old RTS games

-An Ivy Bridge i7 desktop that I'm using as an ESXi server for a home lab

-A Comet Lake i5 desktop that is now my main rig, built in Jan of 2021

-A Lenovo Thinkpad T420 currently being used as a dedicated podcast recording machine

-A Dell Optiplex 7010 hooked up to my tv for watching movies, tv shows, streaming services, etc...

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