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   DulceKennedy (eldeadkennedy@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 09:02:16 JST DulceKennedy

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   @egirlyuumimain @ooignignoktoo @sun also the government netbooks had tv tuners back then too
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 09:06:02 JST Blurry Moon

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     @ElDeadKennedy @egirlyuumimain @ooignignoktoo The 150 dollar Dell Mini 7 could actually run Hackintosh OS X lel. I had two of them. I think I gave one away, and one died when I accidentally destroyed the motherboard trying to grind something with a dremel to make an aftermarket memory SODIMM fit
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 09:06:03 JST Blurry Moon

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     @ElDeadKennedy @egirlyuumimain @ooignignoktoo I remember those laptops, the OLPC project was giving away 150 dollar educational laptops running Linux, and Intel and Microsoft got scared to death and then half a dozen laptop companies started releasing super cheap shitty Windows laptops to try to kill it. They worked great when you wiped them and put Linux on them
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     @sun @egirlyuumimain @ooignignoktoo yeah they were dogshit
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     DulceKennedy (eldeadkennedy@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 09:09:17 JST DulceKennedy

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     @sun @egirlyuumimain @ooignignoktoo I had (still have) a Compaq Mini CQ-10. Absolutely terrible even when it was new, but I love the form factor
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 09:09:17 JST Blurry Moon

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     @ElDeadKennedy @egirlyuumimain @ooignignoktoo Here in Japan there is still manufacturers making new laptops with modern stats in that size. they're expensive but brand new and powerful
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     ooignignoktoo (ooignignoktoo@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 09:10:29 JST ooignignoktoo

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     @ElDeadKennedy @sun @egirlyuumimain I remember those days during the net-top era. They had Asus-EEE computers with intel atom's on them I had the AMD equivelent ASUS EEE 1015t that came with windows 7 starter edition on 1GB of ram. I upgraded the ram to 2GB ( was cheap at the time ) and put Ubuntu 10.04LTS on it and the thing outside of gaming could be feasibly used as a daily driver.
     
     Sadly that PC is now in a landfill somewheres it stopped turning on at somepoint in the early 2020's. I did gut the 2GB DDR3 module ( i'm sure with the current ram shortage it's probably worth it's weight in gold ) and a 500GB SD Caviar blue HDD.
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 09:10:53 JST Blurry Moon

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     @ooignignoktoo @ElDeadKennedy @egirlyuumimain they didn't even care if they worked, they just needed to pump out the things to kill the market the OLPC was potentially opening up. The screens were so small on the laptops that when you opened the settings application in Windows, the bottom row of buttons (OK, cancel, etc) were below the bottom of the screen and you couldn't even click them
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 09:12:13 JST Blurry Moon

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     @ooignignoktoo @ElDeadKennedy @egirlyuumimain I actually bought an Asus EEE and put Ubuntu on it and gave it to my dad. He used the browser and printed with it, which was 100% of what he needed it for, and he didn't even know it wasn't Windows and he used it for like six years and I didn't get a single complaint.
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 09:12:59 JST Blurry Moon

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     @ElDeadKennedy @egirlyuumimain @ooignignoktoo not that small, it's other vendors I've never heard of
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     DulceKennedy (eldeadkennedy@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 09:13:00 JST DulceKennedy

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     @sun @egirlyuumimain @ooignignoktoo do they still make those tiny sony vaios
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     Forest of Enchantment (forestofenchantment@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 11:52:13 JST Forest of Enchantment

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     @sun @egirlyuumimain @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo cc @cassidyclown uses them to run the Cyberia as they can be hank cranked (hiring abos to do it is cheaper than electricity in The Outback)
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 11:57:09 JST djsumdog

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     The Vaio brand got retired a while back. There were Xperia tablets but I think they're gone too. GPD Pocket has taken that market, but their designs aren't as interesting at the Vaios.
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     saint podiatron (goatmeal@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 12:15:34 JST saint podiatron

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     @sun @ElDeadKennedy @egirlyuumimain @ooignignoktoo dell mini 9. I had one and I did this. it worked for 30 minutes until I updated it like a dumbass. I mostly used ubuntu but the res was so low I had to do a funny thing to move the windows around so I could see everything
     
     I stuck it in a closet and ran utorrent and a bitcoin miner on it until it died
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 12:16:03 JST Blurry Moon

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     @goatmeal @ElDeadKennedy @egirlyuumimain @ooignignoktoo yeah Unity had the same screen and window problem but I switched to Ubuntu + MATE and it worked great.
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     saint podiatron (goatmeal@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 12:22:35 JST saint podiatron

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     @sun @ElDeadKennedy @egirlyuumimain @ooignignoktoo mine came with whatever was on hardy heron
     
     my friend got an original EEE and I found a way to unlock the hidden normalish looking desktop environment so he wouldn't have to use the weird gimpy shit it had by default, but then it borked the OS
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