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What have you got sitting around, often powered on, but not doing much? How many wasted clockcycles are in your home? I have 4 computers and three raspberry pi's sitting around and powered on at all times. What computers have you repurposed for cheap NAS or HTPC purposes, but often they're just burning power night and day?
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poo poo, iunno. six? wait. i just remembered a slackware box that i accidentally sealed behind my attic walls twenty years ago. i think it might still be scraping pocsag message capcodes yeah, i just pinged it. so seven
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Oct 27, 2018 15:00
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my tv has more computing power than your raspberry pies. also my watch and dvr and nas and router and receiver and Apple TV and several old phones I have laying around. are we counting all those?
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Oct 27, 2018 15:05
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when you leave a car idling, how many computers are also idling???
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Oct 27, 2018 15:38
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car ecu's dont work any harder at full throttle than at idle lol cmon
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Oct 27, 2018 15:42
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3 on the desk (if you count a windows tablet because that poo poo is basically a beefy chromebook), 1 tower, and on that tower three raspberry pis attached like lampreys. i had to get a bigger switch just for the deskThe Management posted:my tv has more computing power than your raspberry pies. also my watch and dvr and nas and router and receiver and Apple TV and several old phones I have laying around. are we counting all those? this is more fun to try to figure out but then i have to come to terms with the computer graveyard that is my spare closet and that sounds like work
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Oct 27, 2018 15:47
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when i was a kid i always wanted more computer. and now that i'm an adult i have more computer.
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Oct 27, 2018 16:00
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Jonny 290 posted:car ecu's dont work any harder at full throttle than at idle lol cmon it's cute how you think those are the only kind of computer in a modern car
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Oct 27, 2018 16:07
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my honda has an android tablet on the dash haha
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Oct 27, 2018 16:14
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carry on then posted:it's cute how you think those are the only kind of computer in a modern car theyre the only kind of computer in a grownup's car, at least
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Oct 27, 2018 16:18
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two esxi vm hosts, one hackintosh, a macbook, four windows pcs around the house, countless raspberry pis and esp8266 boards there are an additional 10 or so computers and laptops that don't stay on all the time
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Oct 27, 2018 16:37
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hmm, I have 1 (one) computer tower that I put to sleep most of the time I'm not using it, and a laptop
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Oct 27, 2018 20:05
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hey cool another cleverly concealed thread about hoarding
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Oct 27, 2018 23:41
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I have a computer and my wife has a computer. they both sleep most of the day like the cats I used to have a lot of computer and now I have little because computers are bad
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Oct 28, 2018 00:26
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1 computer. 2 if you count the phone computer.
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Oct 28, 2018 20:23
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I have an iMac that won’t die (8 years old), a MacBook Pro with no escape key, and my wife has a MacBook Air. those are devices that are currently powered on. I use my iPad Pro 10x as much as all of those put together.
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Oct 28, 2018 21:05
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zero and i turn off the powerbar when i sleep. i'm a good person op twenty powered off 'cause i'm a vintage computer dorkass
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Oct 29, 2018 03:41
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there's a fine line between collecting and hoarding and the line is this: collectors are willing to part with their collections or portions of their collections for the right price if you can't get a good price for your "collection", it's just trash you're hoarding
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Oct 29, 2018 04:33
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i absolutely am willing to part with anything, some things for more than others but I either actively use, or am actively selling, everything. Rebuilding and reselling poo poo I get for cheap runs me a grand a year in profit actually. SPEAKING OF WHICH ANYONE WANNA BUY A BUNCH OF G3 ERA APPLE PORTABLES
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Oct 29, 2018 05:24
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Currently down to 6, only 2 of which ever get shut off. Best to leave the bedroom PC on 24/7 so that it can play Peep Show or Deadwood for the 20 minutes it takes me to fall asleep every night. I am wise with both sleep schedules and finances.
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Oct 29, 2018 05:44
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akadajet posted:when i was a kid i always wanted more computer. and now that i'm an adult i have more computer. 
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Oct 29, 2018 18:14
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fun to remember people's predictions for computers from when i was a wee lad with an ibm 88 one of my teachers managed to predict netflix in 1991
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Oct 29, 2018 18:14
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Mad Wack posted:one of my teachers managed to predict netflix in 1991 soon there will be program-your-own tvs so they ask you to heed this final plea before it's all dead you should rent more and enjoy video bargains galore ted rogers was simultaneously seen as "old man in charge of cableco" and "really smart businessman who could see the writing on the wall while you were still shaking the spraycan"; his pivot from video store to phone-and-sometimes-cable-box outlet kept a lot of people employed who wouldn't have been
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Oct 29, 2018 18:26
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akadajet posted:when i was a kid i always wanted more computer. and now that i'm an adult i have more computer. another yospos success story
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Oct 29, 2018 18:58
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none
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Oct 29, 2018 18:59
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If you aren't able to at least fill an entire class c net at home you're not really living life to the fullest
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Oct 29, 2018 19:02
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zero but winter will soon be upon us and their heat will be necessary
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Oct 29, 2018 19:57
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it friggin snowed yesterday so winter's upon us now, and i must say i enjoy the heated aura around my computer spiders seem to prefer my server which is a-okay with me, because i prefer spiders to the things they eat
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Oct 29, 2018 20:02
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I only own 1 computer op
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Oct 30, 2018 03:16
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im pretty sure bitcoin miners count as computers so 150
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Oct 31, 2018 02:03
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i ordered another computer from apple today. gotta feed the computer addiction
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Oct 31, 2018 02:10
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computers huh? well lets see theres 4 smart lightbulbs in my living room, 3 in my bed, 6 in my kitchen 4 in my bathroom, my internet-connected fridge, my smart toaster, my juicer, my microwave, my dvr, my smart tv, my xbox, my thermostat, my roomba, my light switches themselves, my alexa, my google dot, my other alexa, my smart blanket, my other juicer, my toothbrush, my phone, my girlfriends phone, my smart doorbell with webcam, and our laptops.... so, 2 computers?
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Nov 1, 2018 19:22
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a 2012 mac mini server this thread reminded me I had another 2008 mac mini with centos that I use to run a vpn on, im going turn it off
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Nov 1, 2018 20:07
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IDLING!? All my boxen are hard at work mining altcoins thank you very much!
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Nov 2, 2018 14:27
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0, if we are excluding embedded stuff like microwaves and dvd players. I use a computer at work, and only turn on my laptop if they call me. My phone is a flip phone, but I do have a tablet so i can watch football on saturdays and make bad posts.
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Nov 5, 2018 18:40
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my mac mini server's video output is busted so i can't ever turn it off. my entire business relies on that pos, lol
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Nov 5, 2018 22:19
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router, access point, synology, intel nuc for iTunes streaming. I guess my security alarm console is probably a linux too. everything else is off or in s3
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Nov 5, 2018 22:24
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mediaserver, nas, media player, games pc, other halfs games pc, dj/music laptop, surface too many computers
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Nov 5, 2018 22:54
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HoboMan posted:my mac mini server's video output is busted so i can't ever turn it off. business must be real good if you cant afford a new $1k computer
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none, op. I have 2 computer @ home and they both sleep
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