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The hard part is tiny: 10" diagonal screen and really cheap: like milk money cheap - - Perhaps a netbook would work, some of them were Linux based right?
Netbooks, haven’t seen them in a decade. They were sluggish at best even running linux. The screens were awful. Seriously, I can’t recommend. A refurbished 10” tablet with a bluetooth keyboard would work 10 times better.
Just use a phone?
For programming?!
Zoomers takes notes on their phones, bet they do programming as bell
Nonsense. Doing anything beyond minimal scripting in any device other than a full-blown keyboard is painful.
So is taking notes, but still the phones are used for note taking
Op didn't say what she wants to do. I maintain my server with my phone. If I really wanted to, I could also work on it efficidntly
Why would you, unless you really enjoy pain? I'm not kink shaming, but I don't mix work and kinks.
btw, I am a he/him : ^ ) But thanks for being inclusive.
too small, no keyboard - I tried using my phone with a USB keyboard and a OTG adapter and most keys work but for some reason escape did not.
https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Latitude-3190-11-6inch-Gorilla/dp/B07RXH56C5/
$89. The alternatives are $180+, so this is about as good as you're going to get unless you go second hand, and most of the time second hand is more expensive than new because people want to recoup the costs as much as possible without actually thinking about what a fair price is.
The Asus EeePC 1000H that I bought back in 2009 is a 10 inch monitor netbook. 160 GB HDD because I didn't go with SSD, only came with 1 GB of RAM and cruicially was offered in both Windows XP and Linux flavor which was a bit niche at the time.
Its 32-bit single core (hyperthreading) atom processor is very slow at 1.6GHz, but it can still be used with antiX for my usecase.
If you manage to get hold of one of these old dinosaurs, I'd probably opt for an SSD solution, that's a pretty big bottleneck.