[11:40] <Metamorphosis> I wonder if I can get a better laptop with $200 compared to my current one: Lenovo G5070, Intel Core i5-4210U (170 GHz 1600MHz, 3MB), 6 GB DDR3L RAM, AMD Radeon R5 M230 2GB, 1 TB 5400rpm HDD, 15.6" HD (1366 x 768) display, Windows 10 Home. I'm looking at Lenovo as they used to be cheap.
[11:41] <lotuspsychje> Metamorphosis: there are so cheap HP models around too
[11:44] <lotuspsychje> Metamorphosis: but i5 for 200$ thats gonna be hard to beat
[11:44] <Metamorphosis> lotuspsychje 2014's i5 isn't much better than 2023's celeron.
[11:45] <lotuspsychje> Metamorphosis: whats your endgoal exactly, find the cheapest laptop ubuntu can run?
[11:46] <Metamorphosis> lotuspsychje I use Kubuntu as my main OS. But I consider it to be Ubuntu just with a different theme lol
[11:46] <Metamorphosis> I also need to have Windows for certain software, but I barely even log in to Windows.
[11:47] <lotuspsychje> Metamorphosis: there are some cheap 14" asus and acer netbooks around too
[11:47] <lotuspsychje> maybe if you grab one second hand
[11:48] <lotuspsychje> asus vivobook and acer swift
[11:48] <Metamorphosis> lotuspsuchje Cool. I never had an ASUS or Acer, most of my computing life has either been Lenovo or Dell. 
[11:49] <Metamorphosis> Lenovo was actually unheard of when i was younger, Until they suddenly destroyed the competition everywhere.
[11:50] <lotuspsychje> i still got an old acer aspire one netbook here running lubuntu working great
[13:20] <JanC> my Asus EEE 900 from ~2008 broke down a couple months ago  :-(
[13:20] <leftyfb> I've still got a couple Dell mini 9's I'm trying to get rid of
[13:20] <JanC> (might be a power supply issue, I haven't tried to replace that yet)
[13:20] <leftyfb> I had one of the eee's as well
[13:21] <leftyfb> I soldered a usb hub, bluetooth and a flash drive to the unused pci bus
[13:21] <lotuspsychje> cool leftyfb 
[13:21] <lotuspsychje> i had great luck with lubuntu 20.04 on ancient machines
[13:24] <lotuspsychje> they still work leftyfb ?
[13:25] <JanC> the battery of that EEE PC900 was no longer really usable, but I used it as a terminal to access other computers in house sometimes  :)
[13:25] <leftyfb> the mini 9's do, yeah. But they're 32bit and don't really run distro's very well. I've got cloudready on it and it's still slow
[13:26] <JanC> the EEE PC900 was 32-bit too, had an old no longer supported distro version on it...
[13:27] <JanC> couldn't upgrade it at some point because it didn't have enough disk space...
[13:27] <JanC> (even when 32-bit was still available)
[13:28] <JanC> / was 4 GiB...
[13:29] <lotuspsychje> 18.04 cant be made pro ?
[13:30] <JanC> lotuspsychje: I couldn't upgrade it long before that, and too lazy to do a new install (and it wasn't used to go on the internet really)
[13:30] <lotuspsychje> kk
[13:30] <lotuspsychje> sorry to hear asus broke
[13:30] <JanC> I think it was still 12.x or 13.x  :)
[13:31] <lotuspsychje> JanC leftyfb i saved this handy link for some lighty other distro's, https://itsubuntu.com/22-best-lightweight-linux-operating-systems-in-2020/
[13:32] <leftyfb> yeah, I don't need to use it anymore for anything
[13:32] <JanC> it wasn't used much anyway, and old distros work well enough to SSH into some other computer a couple times a year  :)
[13:33] <leftyfb> I just want to get rid of them but to someone who will actually use them
[13:33] <leftyfb> I have actual servers and raspberry pi's I can anything else with if I want to
[13:33] <leftyfb> it's crazy how much more powerful a $10 pi zero is than the Dell mini 9
[13:36] <leftyfb> though that's not a terrible idea
[13:36] <leftyfb> gut the mini 9 and shove a pi in it
[13:36] <leftyfb> It would need to connect to the LCD, keyboard and trackpad
[13:36] <lotuspsychje> :p
[13:37] <lotuspsychje> there are few barebone laptops specialy made for pi's but they are so expensive
[13:37] <lotuspsychje> you can buy laptops for that price
[13:37] <leftyfb> I never liked the mini laptop keyboards though
[13:37] <leftyfb> you had to jump through hoops just to type a |
[13:38] <lotuspsychje> hehe
[13:45] <hamidlotfi> hi there,
[13:47] <lotuspsychje> welcome hamidlotfi 
[13:47] <hamidlotfi> I config the netplan with an interface and ovs-bridge and set the mac address manually on the bridge but after applying the netplan, the other mac was randomly assigned by OS to this.
[13:48] <leftyfb> !support | hamidlotfi 
[13:48] <hamidlotfi> ok, thank you.