Ask HN: How many computers you got?

Hmm. I'm not even sure anymore...

  - Main machine is a 2018 Mac Mini with an extravagant 64 GB of RAM.
  - Home server is an i7-4790K running Gentoo. This is for things like seeding Linux distros, serving media throughout the house, a secondary NAS (when I went with bigger drives in my other NAS the old disks went here), IRC client, MOO client, Wireguard... servery things.
  - NAS is an old Synology DS1515, not even plus.
  - Laptop is an M1 Macbook Air.
  - Raspberry Pi 3 is running PiHole.
  - A second or third generation i5 behind my desk running Windows 10 for when I need to do Windowsey things.
  - Thinkpad X200 Tablet for running older Windowsey things on period-accurate hardware.
  - Thinkpad T500 that I use for making ISOs from old backup CDs or generally any time accessing an optical disc is required.
  - 2012 Retina Macbook Pro that my nieces and nephews use when they come over. (Monterey works great!)
  - Asus Transformer Something Or Other sits on my desk running Creatures Docking Station in tablet mode. This is for decoration. I like to watch the Norns livin' like Norns while my mind wanders.

And then of course the not-quite-computers-to-me things:

  - iPhone 13 Pro
  - Apple TV 4K
  - iPad Mini (whatever the last one is)
  - Apple Watch (im a sheep) 
  - iPad Air 2
  - iPad Air 1 (I use this as a cookbook in the kitchen. It's filthy.)
  - Kobo Libra H2O

That's probably it! Nothing else springs to mind at least.

The Gaming Laptop: Alienware M15 R4 (2021)

The "I like to use Linux occasionally" Laptop: Dell XPS 13 Developer (2017)

The Work Mac: MacBook Pro (2019)

a self-built desktop with two monitors running linux for work and games that is now 4 years old, replacing the previous lenovo desktop that was in use for 8 years.

thinkpad t420 running linux serving as a tv station and for school work.

a thinkpad x230 for windows work and games

a macbook pro 2012 now only used occasionaly running macos and optionally linux

a GPD pocket 1 running linux for all my important work stuff. (small enough to carry around when travelling, so i have a device to do work just in case i need to do stuff that's inconvenient on the phone. i may eventually replace that with a pinephone with keyboard extension, because that's much cheaper and it's really the keyboard and the laptop form factor that makes the difference)

a one mix 1s running linux that was really supposed to replace the GPD pocket when the GPD battery died. the one mix battery died too, and in the mean time i was able to replace the GPD battery but not the one mix one.

there is one more thinkpad running some old version of linux that is still booting but so old that it's not really practically usable. there are also two OLPC XO's that were the predecessors of the GPD pocket that should still boot.

two working phones running /e/. one in use and and older one as backup

one thing i never had, because i never found a use for that form factor, is a tablet. a device either needs to be small and easy to carry, or it better have a real keyboard.

i do want to get rid of the desktop and instead get another laptop because it's just more flexible

Probably a hundred or more, and double that if you include anything with a microcontroller in it like car, music keyboard, monitors, music effects processors. 10's of old laptops dedicated to specific tasks (weather station, media players, secure service access, different OS's) or as backup for when one fails. Five or so primary computers used for everyday stuff. Security systems. Raspberry Pi's dedicated to specific tasks or for general exploration. Macbooks for music/audio systems. An old SGI Iris workstation (booted last time I tried it 10 years ago). 10 tablets of which I use maybe 3 regularly. 20 smartphones, dedicated to specific tasks (media players, sensing systems, emergency calls, life management). Some hardware video editing systems with powerful processors in them. Digital audio and video recorders that are basically custom computer systems. A rented virtual server. A Synology NAS. 10 Android TV boxes (mostly junk but they run). Some Amiga's. Because a lot of these devices are old I'll often have a few backups to swap in to keep things running. Also because most everything is old it is cheap which is why I can afford so many.

Actively use 7 (3x Pi's, 1x Linux tower, 1x Linux laptop, 1x Android phone, 1x Android tablet).

Have in total 13. Sometimes use then for short time limited bursts.