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Everyone has different needs of course, My home setup: hardwired all the desktops and a few access points via cheap 1gbit hardware (literally found some at th

Everyone has different needs of course, My home setup: hardwired all the desktops and a few access points via cheap 1gbit hardware (literally found some at the thrift store/ebay), usually using tomato/shibby. have a backup router. battery backup on main routers/modem. large external battery wire nutted to my desktop UPS. NAS is an old laptop with battery intact, doubles as second display/machine. use my phone via usb on my desktop if all else fails. total cost, probably less than $100. Oh, and I use a $5/month server for stuff that absolutely needs to be on full time. Otherwise the only external access is me occasionally remoting into my desktop and I am happy to stop and smell the flowers if that is interrupted briefly.

chx 8y ago
I have an even simpler setup: if my cable connection dies, I simply tether my phone to replace it. There are no UPSes because both the laptop (TP25 w/ 24 + 72 Wh batteries) and the phone (it's a Moto Z Play with a battery mod) have large enough batteries to last much longer than a domestic blackout in downtown Vancouver. My laptop is enough for me to stay productive (it's a ThinkPad 25! very productive). Everything that needs to be online is on a Hetzner server I rent for all sorts of purposes so the 51 EUR monthly bill kind of spreads out.
- hackerpacker 8y ago
  I've been there, splurged on an alienware 17 a while ago, but mostly I only use it on the road now. I went with desktop because I wanted everyone in the house to have a decent machine and I could get several I5s for less than $70 apiece (5 machines, one in each bedroom) and wanted easy/cheap upgrades for some of them, and they are all the same optiplex model, which makes my life easier. I like my desktop setup a lot though, 3.3ghz I-5, 27" 1080, 16 gig ram, 1tb ssd, 8tb in "cold storage", g402 mouse, gt710 vid, clicky keyboard, Nubwo N2 headset, decent posture, 100+ fps gaming. Probably threw $500 at it above the initial $70 though, but most of the machines didn't get that treatment, but their users aren't using it to make a living either.
  - chx 8y ago
    Posture wise I am normally using a Matias Ergo Pro mounted vertically and an Evoulent Verticalmouse and of course an external monitor. But, in a pinch / short travel I can just work on laptop. I tried desktop before but since everything I work on needs to be on laptop too, the necessary sync becomes old quick.

chx 8y ago

I have an even simpler setup: if my cable connection dies, I simply tether my phone to replace it. There are no UPSes because both the laptop (TP25 w/ 24 + 72 Wh batteries) and the phone (it's a Moto Z Play with a battery mod) have large enough batteries to last much longer than a domestic blackout in downtown Vancouver. My laptop is enough for me to stay productive (it's a ThinkPad 25! very productive). Everything that needs to be online is on a Hetzner server I rent for all sorts of purposes so the 51 EUR monthly bill kind of spreads out.

hackerpacker 8y ago
I've been there, splurged on an alienware 17 a while ago, but mostly I only use it on the road now. I went with desktop because I wanted everyone in the house to have a decent machine and I could get several I5s for less than $70 apiece (5 machines, one in each bedroom) and wanted easy/cheap upgrades for some of them, and they are all the same optiplex model, which makes my life easier. I like my desktop setup a lot though, 3.3ghz I-5, 27" 1080, 16 gig ram, 1tb ssd, 8tb in "cold storage", g402 mouse, gt710 vid, clicky keyboard, Nubwo N2 headset, decent posture, 100+ fps gaming. Probably threw $500 at it above the initial $70 though, but most of the machines didn't get that treatment, but their users aren't using it to make a living either.
- chx 8y ago
  Posture wise I am normally using a Matias Ergo Pro mounted vertically and an Evoulent Verticalmouse and of course an external monitor. But, in a pinch / short travel I can just work on laptop. I tried desktop before but since everything I work on needs to be on laptop too, the necessary sync becomes old quick.