Sundog reminded me that the pinenote exists today, and this has been upsetting.
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It's almost exactly what I want out of a second computer, but all the ways that it isn't are such massive pains in the ass that I can barely stand it.
And I can't find mine.
I did find what I believe is a pinebook pro. It was in the garage, on a shelf. The garage is not climate controlled.
I do not know if it will boot, if I am ever able to trickle charge enough juice into it to get it to boot. (a process which can take literal days on a dead pinebook!)
I didn't look too closely at it, just threw it in the car. It's possible it is not a pinebook pro, but instead another simularly formfactored machine. There were dozens of them, you know, the Chromebooks and what have you, and I often ended up with spares because I collected other people's ewaste.
There was a period of maybe a decade when I would turn old Chromebooks and other old ewaste computers and peripherals into video editing boxes or whatever other single purpose thing people in my life needed.
I don't do that much anymore, but it seems like time to start again
It was indeed my pine book pro.
And it was DIRTY. I clorox'd it, and it's looking better now.
It is charging now, allegedly, or at least the red charging light is on. But nothing happens when I press the power button.
If I recall correctly, that means it will take 24 hours or more before anything happens when I press the power button (or! Because it was in the garage for so long without A/C and with humidity, perhaps it will never turn on again.)
I remember kind of hating this thing, but I don't know if that's because I was Big Mad at computers when I was using it, or because it sucks.
