A pair of Lenovo ThinkCentre M600 machines running Debian 12. Primarily, these machines host tiny.tilde.website - which means PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasicsearch, and Mastodon Sidekiq and Rails containers.
They also terminate the PPPoE connection for my house. I documented the containerized PPP configuration. The idea here is that if I have to run on battery for an extended time, I can power off everything but the switch and one of these ThinkCentres and still have working Internet (and working ttw).
An absolute tank of a Lenovo ThinkPad T440p. This was my wife's machine, bought second hand from Refurb-IT and then had Linux installed when it became my dedicated amateur radio machine. It runs Debian 12 and is my only machine that actually runs the stock GNOME desktop (but X11, not Wayland).
For most of 2023 I tried to not have a Linux laptop — I would use a Chromebook as an SSH terminal for that kind of thing but otherwise leaned into using desktop computers. I was annoyed at how slow my T480 was and went and bought box (below) to actually have a fast machine again.
I started using t440p when I had to spend two weeks in Ireland, and knew a Chromebook wouldn't cut it. It's a very capable machine and it feels reassuringly solid. Even though it's an older machine, it does pack an i7 processor and 10GiB of RAM, so it's powerful enough for almost everyting, too.
This Windows-XP-era Dell Latitude D400 was a thrift store find that just needed a new power supply (from eBay, costing more than the laptop itself). The battery is dead, the HDD is a spinner, but I've left it stock. I don't have nostalgia for XP, so I put Haiku on. This feels period-correct enough for me.
This machine is the oldest of the machines that made up my quest for "cozy computing". Apart from just being cool to run Haiku on real hardware, this was to be a machine for slow computing. Reading and updating Gemini, Gopher, etc. and for IRCing. Possibly even writing?
When I was more burned out I needed a cleaner break like that- more recently I use the Cyberdeck in a similar way. That said; there's some surprising good things: a 4:3 display is pleasurable to use, and this has enough pixels to not feel like too much of a come down from normal screens. (i.e. non-Retina, non-4K displays: anything that doesn't require scaling). In small doses, even a spinning HDD is nice — the little pause, the flickering HDD light and the tiny noise are all haptic feedback that the machine is doing something. (Or that you've asked it to do a little too much!).
The main thing stopping it seeing more frequent use is the very annoying fan which never spins down completely. This is what killed it as my "idle on IRC terminal", sadly. It's still a good machine for occasional use or testing Haiku things that need the GCC 2.95 ABI.