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Coincidentally, my neighbor just stopped by and he is selling his ASUS ZenPad 8 for $30, so I took him up on it. Android 7 (Nougat), which is old as f*** OS, but $30 can't go wrong.

I think "replace 'puter with this" but that isn't happening. HP14 (the x2600) is a reliable Debian device and I will get it reassembled and in-use again in a short while. Best $183 spent

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

I'm seeing some "renewed" 11.6" Chromebooks from Amazon for $80. I'm so much more comfortable in the terminal than in yesteryears that I'd be fine with that so long as the so-called "Terminal" app (which includes Debian) can run on it.

Then again, I took a peek at cygwin (which I've not used in a few years), and it seems to have most of what I use most: tmux, vim, lua, curl, lynx, (open)ssh/sftp, slrn, mutt. Looks like I'd have to find a way to build "gemget" in that environment, but I could honestly do without Gemini. So maybe one of the couple Windows laptops I still own would do the trick...? Ah, but then maybe I can no longer trust the browser security of such... guess I'd have to switch to doing anything sensitive to the phone...?

It's all so ridiculous, really....