Yeah, this is my recommendation. I have a cluster of 6 little Lenovo Thinkcenters of varying ages. Some of them have been about the price of an rPi too.

My zombie brain is my pair programmer. This happens to me so frequently that it no longer surprises me and I now chill and let my sub conscious work it out.

Oh man, I totally forgot about Trillian. The days where everything was heading towards XMPP then it all exploded away from it again.

For us Gen-X’ers it was the age old, “I don’t use MSN chat, I use ICQ, someone else uses Yahoo chat.” Pidgin helped in those days.