Ridiculously cheap Fatdog machine

[chiefengineer]

I priced a Panda USB dongle I bought three years ago for $5.99USD.
It now costs $40-70 (my wireless got corrupted by Android Studio again).

I thought I'd share this cheerful albeit dull bit of fortune with you rocket scientists in these
expensive times: I found a HYUNDAI 14 Inch Hybook 4GB RAM, 128GB
at Walmart online (sale for $109...it was getting massacred by reviews for choking
on Windows 10).

Fatdog FLIES off a microSD on it without ever booting Windows.
Very robust bios...just wireless Realtek needed compiling from a github
(morrownr). Anyway, I bought what amounts to a cute netbook instead
of the dongle. If I lose it at the airport I won't cry.

[mouldy]

I had never heard of a Hyundai netbook, so looked it up. Its currently $150 on Amazon by way, seems little pricey for what it is. $109 sounds lot better. But one of reviews on Amazon said it didnt have sound with linux though it ran faster with linux. They didnt mention which linux they used. Just curious if you had sound with Fatdog. Or it is like linux on some former Chromebooks and you have lot hoop jumping to make it work?

[chiron]

The more modern Celerons actually seem to run pretty smooth with FD813. I got myself an el cheapo Lenovo Yoga 11 Chromebook, that has a quadcore Celeron, 4GB RAM and 16GB eMMC, and it runs really well. And for my mother I am setting up a Dell Wyse 5470 with a Celeron dualcore, 8GB of RAM and an 256GB M.2 SSD, and it also runs totally smooth, boots really quick, too. At 130€ for a 24" Allinone this was too good to let it go unbought And, Both Celerons are passively cooled, so no noise emission whatsoever.

BTW, I didn't get sound working on my ex-chromebook, but gave up rather fast. USB DAC/Headphone amp with good Headphones is much better anyways...

[Flash]

The large university near me has a surplus store where very capable, if a few years old, used computers are for sale, including laptops. I imagine that every large organization has to replace its computers and related equipment often enough that bargains can be found wherever they get rid of the old stuff. Including roll-around chairs for $10.

[rockedge]

I was given two different DELL PowerEdge commercial grade servers by two different companies. Both were going into dumpsters and I was offered them one with no hard drives and the other has four 500 gb hard drives which I had to reformat to ensure no company data was still on them.

Both machines originally cost thousands of Dollars each and with plenty of life left in them I was given for free.

[chiefengineer]

But one of reviews on Amazon said it didnt have sound with linux though it ran faster with linux. They didnt mention which linux they used. Just curious if you had sound with Fatdog. Or it is like linux on some former Chromebooks and you have lot hoop jumping to make it work?

Here is what I can tell you so far: I have heard no peep out of it but the wizard finds 5 HDMI interfaces, an
alsa loopback, and a bluetooth. The alsamixer finds the INTEL card with everything muted. I am still playing
with it. Since it is the fastest surfing experience of my life, even if I don't eventually get sound to work I am
keeping it.

The drawbacks are that I got screen tearing from a LibreWolf appimage...none from regular Firefox, the keyboard
seems pretty responsive but the capslock is wide and takes some shifting/typo-attention, and wireless needed finding
(identifying it was the hardest part)---I read where kernel 6.2 and up supports the card natively. So maybe
the sound (if it already doesn't work) will also come to life.

BTW, this was available for LESS if I wanted either Windows 11 or another color (like red) when they ran out then reposted.
I had never heard of Hyundai either and kept getting hits for hacking ignitions.