I'm at 10 computers within arms reach if I'm sitting at my desk at home and I need validation that that's not abnormal.
So far it's not looking good.
Ok final list.
Wait that's 14.
If it makes you feel any better, a small selection of what is within arm's reach
@jp I’m at two where I am right now, but if I was sitting at my desk it would be 14:
1. Work MacBook
2. Personal laptop
3. Pixel 3a
4. My iPhone
5. iPhone 4S
6. iPod Nano 3rd Gen
7. Apple Watch
8. Windows PC
9. 2018 Mac Mini
10. 2011 Mac Mini
11. Umbrel Home
12. 2015 MacBook Air
13. iPad Pro
14. 2006 MacBook
Oh, there's also a 2012 laptop down in my desk, but I'd have to open up a cabinet, clear some stuff out of the way, pull it out, and plug it in (since it doesn't have a working battery). Not gonna count that as "within reach".
@jp Don't forget alle the Shelly Equipment. And the Wemos D1 Minis. And probably switches, access points, Flipper Zeros, Chameleon Mini, and stuff.
So yeah, 20+ is perfectly normal.
Aw, no 45+ option :(
Yeah. I stopped counting at 10 too and didn't even get as far as the assorted arduinos, picos etc that aren't yet part of any project.
On the other hand: when I'm in bed it's 0, which isn't an option. Not that I'd be able to select it if it were 😂
@jp What is it when you pick up the TV remote and go "THAT'S where that nvme drive went!"?
Please let's not talk about MicroSD cards...
*Travels 50 years into the past. Tries to convince an IT Professional that you "lost" 1TB worth of storage because you dropped it into the carpet somewhere.*
@jp Do they have to be operational? :-)
Anyway, I'm noticing a suspicious bump around 8. The octopi have infiltrated fedi.
@tithonium @jp there are deliberately scary few computers in our bedroom.
there's an extension of the house PBX and because it's the uplink (for antenna reasons) it is a smartphone. but we don't use it as one. it's _just_ a network uplink.
that's it.
we used to have compys in the bedroom, we got them out.
recommended, ngl.
@glitch25 @jp I'm in my (home) office _now_, let's see.
Embedded in 3D printer but removable and still programmable so still a compy (1), lappy (2), other lappy (3), tiny lappy (4), PS4 Pro (5), old phone used as display (6), old phone used as lab camera (7, technically just out of reach atm but I'm still counting it, because my chair has wheels and it's one kick away), and... huh. I guess that's it!
_Two_ kicks away and I get to a closet which sends me into 10+ but that's two kicks away and that doesn't count. xD
@moira @jp For me, two different work devices plus personal computer. Both gaming handhelds happen to be in here. Two LoRa nodes, several PIs including the GPS time server. Watch. Phone. and that's not counting the retro computers. The only problem I suffer from is space. 🤣
The retro handheld collection lives in my bedroom because of easy access to chargers, but the only active devices usually are my phone and ebook, and neither seem to overpower the overwhelming need to sleep when I'm ready. Fortunate, that.
@jp here, laying in bed:
Typing on a cell phone. Running Android. Which has a baseband lte modem also running Android. ANDROIDCEPTION! Wifi and GPS. NFC and BT.
Next to me on the night stand: two ereader tablets. Also running Android. No LTE modem though. Wifi chipsets each.
A CPAP machine, with LTE modem, and a uSD card (flash controllers are often 8051 CPUs). My Pebble watch. A tv remote.
Behind the night stand, a zigbee switched outlet.
Honestly I've lost count of how many computers that truly is, so I just voted 10+.
)@jp at the desk just the work computer; in the main room the funputer on the table; the kids' funputer on the bookcase; the home/media server and a router on a storage furniture; a dead laptop in the storage furniture; and the ISP's router in another wookcase.
There are a couple of old phones somewhere, a dead tablet waiting for recycling, and the all the non general computers inside the appliances.
Minimal tonsurvive: 3 (phone, work and funputers)
Better: 4 (kids')
Total: 8 alive, 4 dead.
@jp should I count the 4/5 -old-vintage laptops I can easily reach with my feet (but would require going under the desktop to reach them with my hands)?
otherwise it's just two, most of the other ones I used to have nearby have been moved on the other side of the room
and then there are the laptops actually in use, but those are spread out around the house
@jp General purpose computers?
3 current Mac, 2 discontinued/unsupported Mac, 2 Rasperry Pi, 2 iPhone, 1 iPad, 2 „NAS“*, 1 FreeBSD Xeon Server server.
Not counted: various devices with „computers“ im them, but not being general purpose „computers“: digital cameras, VoIP phone, laser printer, ethernet switches, router, cable modem and a DSL modem.
I won‘t even try to think about all the devices with some microcontroller in them.
* old one goes to another location this summer
@jp it's a slippery concept, I keep finding new ones.
Also how many billion transistors are there in the room with me right now?
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