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Post #1479080

2026-03-31 00:58 UTC

How many computers do you have within arms reach right now? (If you have to ask: yes, it's a computer)

Replies (25)

  • @liferstate@mas.to 2026-03-31 04:38

    @jp Three. The Thinkpad I'm typing on now, an iPhone, and the old Thinkpad I don't use much anymore. (I'd have to stand on a chair to reach that one, but I can see it from here so I think it should count).

    Open ##1812177

  • @sep@snabelen.no 2026-03-31 05:01

    @jp fun but difficult! what is the length of a standarized arm? Am i allowed to rotate on the office chair, to grab anything right behind me? I am not really that flexible. How much stretching is allowed? Also must the computer be 100% operational or can it have a defect?. Eg: if i have 2 partial computers that are going to become one operational one, do i count 2, 1 or 0? Not that it matters since scale stop at 10+

    Open ##1812178

  • @zelgaav@mastodon.social 2026-03-31 05:26

    @jp I assumed "within arms reach" means "same room" here. I can reach any of the devices by moving chair 1m to the side. :-) 1. Work laptop 2. Work phone 3. Desktop 4. Personal laptop 5. Old MSI U100 6. Personal phone 7. Smartwatch 8. Old HP laptop 9. Old HP laptop 11. Old Toughbook 12. 3DS 13. 3DS 14. Nokia 800 + few broken phones Basically all of the above except one of the HPs can be turned on and used any moment. "Old" have modern, supported Linux distros on them, even 25+ y.o. Toughbook.

    Open ##1812179

  • @janeishly@beige.party 2026-03-31 06:24

    @jp Only two, but I am still in bed. If I was at my desk, four. No, five, and with a quick scoot across the room, seven. But three of those would be dead phones.

    Open ##1812181

  • @m0xEE@breloma.m0xee.net 2026-03-31 07:01

    @jp One! I have a separate room where I can concentrate :marseycool: (5 active ssh sessions with computers in the other room :marseysigh: )

    Open ##1812187

  • @jp@polymaths.social I was thinking... Hm... 1... Yeah jus... wait... that, and that and that... I still may have missed something, and honestly ... yeah probably 10+ not four. I mean, some I'm not sure can be considered a computer, but yeah probably 10+ to be honest.

    Open ##1812188

  • @mdione@en.osm.town 2026-03-31 07:27

    @jp in bed, and the second is an ereader that hasn't been charged in months.

    Open ##1812190

  • @paul@notnull.space 2026-03-31 07:47

    @jp are we counting the computers inside the computers?

    Open ##1812191

  • @ahihi@anticapitalist.party 2026-03-31 07:50

    @jp i counted 28 but im sure i missed some

    Open ##1812192

  • @GuloGulo@mamutovo.cz 2026-03-31 08:00

    @jp Nemám rád Šmouly ... a ankety ;) PS: můj první počítač měl násobně menší výkon než moje hodinky - takže jako počítač se berou i hodinky, chytré prsteny, mobily, mp4 přehrávače, chytrá lampička, chytrá zásuvka ... ? #sameocasky (Czech humorous anagram for self-questions)

    Open ##1812194

  • @Extelec@mstdn.social 2026-03-31 08:57

    @jp I'm in a car, so 10+

    Open ##1812197

  • @Kaliah@dragonscave.space 2026-03-31 10:51

    @jp At least 6, 3 laptops and 3 phones. Not all in current use but they are here.

    Open ##1812198

  • @stodarahodan@chaos.social 2026-03-31 11:21

    @jp that‘s not fair, i‘m in the office and have a stack of Laptops an a ton of Raspberry Pis and Mini PCs behind my desk

    Open ##1812199

  • @valhalla@social.gl-como.it 2026-03-31 13:08

    @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

    Open ##1812201

  • @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

    Open ##1812202

  • @Unixbigot@aus.social 2026-04-01 01:14

    @jp I voted 5 but i forgot the other 14 also in arms reach.

    Open ##1812203

  • @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?

    Open ##1812205

  • @yakmacker@society.kalli.st 2026-03-31 04:24

    @jp I would like to point out that three of them are non-functioning cell phones

    Open ##1812206

  • @joewells@mastodon.social 2026-03-31 03:44

    @jp Only one, since I'm in the wrong room for a high score, but I'm also in arm's reach of our dog, so that makes up for it

    Open ##1812208

  • @TomGwozdz@oldbytes.space 2026-03-31 03:42

    @jp I’m in bed right now, so only 6.

    Open ##1812213

  • @badtux@mastodon.social 2026-03-31 03:15

    @jp We are nerds.

    Open ##1812214

  • @varx@cybersecurity.theater 2026-03-31 02:43

    @jp Do they have to be operational? :-) Anyway, I'm noticing a suspicious bump around 8. The octopi have infiltrated fedi.

    Open ##1812215

  • @derek@www.glidden.life 2026-03-31 02:37

    @jp Four cellphones, three SDRs, two Pis, a couple of HackRFs (more SDRs?), two laptops, a Sony Vita, a Nintendo 3DS... probably a couple of other things under the piles that I've forgotten about. I may have a problem.

    Open ##1812216

  • @fbievan@polymaths.social 2026-03-31 01:47

    @jp so my steam deck, my PC, and the laptop, and also my phone.... Uhhh

    Open ##1812217

  • @jp Aw, no 45+ option :(

    Open ##1812218