Charlotte Aten<p>In 2021 I bought a small Chinese ultrabook, the One Netbook A1. You can find a review at <a href="https://liliputing.com/one-netbook-a1-handheld-computer-preview/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">liliputing.com/one-netbook-a1-</span><span class="invisible">handheld-computer-preview/</span></a> and the official site for the company appears to be <a href="http://1netbook.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">1netbook.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. I wanted a small computer with USB ports so I could teach a hybrid course with a USB webcam pointed at the blackboard.</p><p>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.</p><p>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 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/GPDPocket/comments/krgijw/linux_on_the_one_netbook_a1/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reddit.com/r/GPDPocket/comment</span><span class="invisible">s/krgijw/linux_on_the_one_netbook_a1/</span></a> which says that the Reddit One Netbook community is «banned». Maybe my joke was more right than I thought?</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/OneNetbook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OneNetbook</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ultrabook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ultrabook</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/OneNetbookA1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OneNetbookA1</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/LinuxMint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxMint</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/LinuxMintDebianEdition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxMintDebianEdition</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/LinuxMintDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxMintDE</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/NSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NSA</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a></p>