u/telnaga

I'm poor as hell so my M.O. has been refurbished school chromebooks/netbooks, and giving them linux mint.

my last one was a HP stream 11 pro g5; I loved it, aside from touchpad issues. but it got severely water damaged. I contacted a repair place and they pointed out I was trying to repair a laptop worth under $100. i said fair yeah.

but anyways I'm looking for recommendations for maybe a little bit of an upgrade from that.

• Country

US

• Budget

up to $120 i suppose. last one was $70 lol. theres wiggle room here, sometimes ebay refurbs have deals

• Are you open to refurbs/used options?

yes pretty much my only option

• Screen size

anything bigger than 10" is fine

• Weight limit

any

• Purpose

installing linux mint; half media center, just running VLC or streaming, half playing lightweight games like Balatro or Rimworld. occasional use for digital art

• Form factor

standard absolutely preferred. i dont like tablets, i dont like touchscreens. i have an HDMI display drawing tablet. i dont want any of that built in

• Intended usage

nothing too high intensity, mostly playing videos, internet, lightweight gaming, some digital art (krita), some writing

• Desired battery life

anything 6hrs or above would be fine

• Please list, in order of most important to least important, the priority between Size, Weight, Performance, Battery life

PRICE, DURABILITY

but anyways: performance, weight, battery life, size

• Info/Requirements

need HDMI port and at least one USB port, multiple is nice.

my wants are:

1. not thin as hell... I appreciate school netbooks bc they tend to have those rubbery shells that stand up to a lot. I move these things around with me.
2. at least 32gb storage, at least 4gb ram
3. would be Nice if it had an easily removable battery
4. would be Nice if it had a decent color profile. thing i didnt like about the HP stream is when I used it for digital art, everything was washed out.

other specs not super important, most resource intensive thing I do with these is play Rimworld. its hard to find sources on The Best of the Bottom Line. any recs are greatly appreciated.

my input is this:

ffmpeg -i "INPUT" -vcodec libx265 -preset medium -crf 28 -map 0 -c:a copy -map 0:s:1 -c:s:0 copy "OUTPUT"

the input file has a dozen or so subtitle tracks that bloat up the file size. I'm trying just to keep track 2. I know -map:0:s:1 designates the second track, but without -c:s copy, I get the error "subtitle encoding currently only possible from text to text or bitmap to bitmap". I found that -c:s:0 copy after the map argument is supposed to copy just the mapped subtitle, but I still get the same error. and if I just have -c:s copy, even after the -map argument, it copies over every sub track.