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When we got married I bring a desktop with me, noways we have a desktop (for me), 2 laptops (one for the wife for personal and the other to the kids to running the local library mostly), an all in one (to the wife's work), a tablet (to play games in bed for the kids) and 2 fairly new smartphones (me and wife, but wife's is constantly abused by kids)...
(and I do not count all the electronics I gathered - a shoebox)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Same: 1 Desktop (an Amstrad 1640) when Herself moved in.
Now ...
2 Desktops (though hers is old because she hasn't used it for years)
2 phones (plus a small bucket full of "used" ones)
Her tablet (10" Samsung)
My Nexus 7
My Fire HD (heap of pooh)
My WookieTab
Android head unit in car
Chromecast (Android)
Amazon Fire TV (Android. Ish.)
No kids, or there would be loads more I suspect.
And I give the Cat a new tablet every month ... 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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OriginalGriff wrote: And I give the Cat a new tablet every month ...
and the neighbors cat?
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Gets a tablet every day - cystitis. 
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Everytime I buy a new desktop, the old one goes to the attic. That way when something blows up, I have a spare PC, or I can raid it for spare parts. Have been doing so for quite some time.
Good amount of IDE-cables in reserve. And network cables, phone cables, hubs, dead routers, a TV adapter for the 16-bits Nintendo. Books on Windows NT4. Can't remember the last time I actually needed an IDE-cable
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I know that feeling - I have a drawer full of CAT5 cables I'll probably never need again ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Off the top of my head
1) HP Proliant Server
2) ReadyNas Raid box
3) 3 Dell laptops
4) 2 Surface Pros
5) HP laptop
6) Wookie tablet ( semi dead )
7) Samsung tablet
8) Numerous Raspberry Pis
9) Numerous NanoPiM4's
10) 2 iPhones
There are only 2 of us.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Oh sod - I forgot the 2 NASes:
Acer Aspire EasyStore (4 x 1TB, RAID5): Linux
Seagate Blackarmor (4 x 4TB, RAID5): Linux
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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I've always been a desktop man, my first was a 486 (the Amstrad 1512 was my father's).
My wife is on her third laptop -- and I occasionally use one of her previous tablet thingies when I want to be on the patio or something.
The Kid -- who turns 18 today! -- has an iPad, two laptops, and now a gaming desktop.
But then there's my small DEC museum -- a MicroVAX, two AlphaServers, and an Itanium all running OpenVMS.
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So where's the part about anything gone wrong?
(I'm not going to start a hardware inventory here, else there goes my Sunday...)
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We call it 'progress'. 
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Our machine overlords are stealthily enslaving us! 
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"Dead Kit Corner" does seem to be taking over an ever growing portion of my house.
Am I really all that likely to start taking bits out of 20-odd year-old machines?
Am I remotely likely to?
Whoever that irritating "does it bring you joy?" woman is might just have a point when it comes to old computers!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Three laptops
Eleven desktops
Three iPads
One Android tablet
Two smart phones
I absolutely know where it went wrong, and I don't want to talk about it.
BTW, all of the desktops and laptops are running Linux.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I've streamlined a bit over the last couple years...
2 Smartphones
2 iPads
2 Smartwatches
1 MacBook Pro
1 Asus Chromebook
...the "kids" are now adults - on their own - with their own devices.
The Beer Prayer - Our lager, which art in barrels, hallowed be thy drink. Thy will be drunk, I will be drunk, at home as it is in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, and forgive us our spillage as we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not to incarceration, but deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, the bitter and the lager, for ever and ever. Barmen.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: When we got married
There's the answer.
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120. A difficult path elicits awe (5)
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A difficult path A MAZE
elicits awe AMAZE
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Ya 
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started the PC today, noticed a quiet rattle (normally in church mouse territory), figured it was a fan.
anyhoo shone me torch into it, see if something obvious like a cable that's shifted, ran a stress test to try and pick which fan, they sped up / slowed down as expected, nothing obvious except: on cool down the CPU fan slowed to a stop then even ran backwards before slowly starting again!!
but hang-on, CPU temps aren't going up, still going down???
stress test again, (if it didn't break the first time try harder) ...same thing.
during cool down CPU fan stopping, backwards and forwards.
then... looking at it closer, TA DA! huge relief!!
das blinken lichten!! ... torch (LED) frequency and fan rotation hitting dem happy harmonics.
LED torches look like steady light but are actually flashing on and off, however doing that faster than eyes can perceive. (and usually the cheap china torches blink way slower but still too fast for they eye to see - which is also why these lights often look weird on videos & photos.
as to the rattle - case fan, bearing/spindle wear (it's only 1 year old), but still working well albeit with that wee rattle (barely heard even without music on).
... plenty enough time to [order online and] replace at my 'leisure' (i.e. annoyance factor).
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Yeah, you see that with modern cars "LED running lights" or "LED tail lights" when they appear on TV - sometimes they appear to blink instead of being continuous because of harmonies between the frame rate and the LED blink frequency.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Install one of these[^]. They don't have to spin backwards to reverse the airflow. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Case fans are low quality, always have to replace them. In fact I've got one 140mm fan I need to replace. I have the replacement fan but since replacement fan arrived the one failing quit making noise.
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine to accept the things I cannot!
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can believe case fans are almost all crap when they only cost a couple of dollars.
the branded ones cost more, but I've bought $2 fans from china identical to $25+ branded ones (everything but the logo, often it'll have half the logo - that unique shaped area where the logo goes.)
anyway, the case really fan only makes a few deg difference, no hurry.
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No matter what the manufacturers say, those bearings need lubrication.
I have a habit of lifting those stickers and adding a drop of oil every second year or so.
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