In 2021 I bought a small Chinese ultrabook, the One Netbook A1. You can find a review at https://liliputing.com/one-netbook-a1-handheld-computer-preview/ and the official site for the company appears to be http://1netbook.com. I wanted a small computer with USB ports so I could teach a hybrid course with a USB webcam pointed at the blackboard.
It was a bit hard to get the One Netbook A1. Despite positive Western reviews, no American company was selling it anymore, and I couldn't order it directly from the the PRC. I had to use a European intermediary in order to obtain it. I would joke that the ultrabook had the PRC's version of our NSA's spyware built in, so I wasn't supposed to have it. In any case, it worked well for my purposes and I had fun using it over the next couple years.
I was letting the machine collect dust for a while, and I finally decided to give it new life by switching it from Linux Mint to Linux Mint Debian Edition. When I did so, I found that (again) the screen wanted to be in tablet mode and I couldn't get it to switch through the Display menu. I had an applet that solved this before, but it was no longer available. I ended up writing my own script for switching screen layouts quickly. In the process, I found https://www.reddit.com/r/GPDPocket/comments/krgijw/linux_on_the_one_netbook_a1/ which says that the Reddit One Netbook community is «banned». Maybe my joke was more right than I thought?
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