This post got me going back to look at the cute 7-inch they have. Then remembered why I skipped the last time I looked. Why on Earth no åäö keys when they could just be provided for swapping in, even for extra $$? For those layering won’t do it, they must be on dedicated keys.
Ooh, but this new one does have int’l options. Nice.
I recently discovered kmscon: a hardware accelerated utf-8 & emoji capable replacement for the standard Linux console. Put that on.
Looks like the fix is likely already in the kernel. Patches have been submitted towards the end of December 2023. Remember this won’t help if you use an old kernel (Arch, BTW, has the latest :o)
2023 14-inch oled i5 here. there was an easy fix for no audio on speakers, a udev drop-in iirc. it’s been an awesome machine all round. on mobile now but i might post a link later.
https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key/
The best, on F-Droid.
I’ve had to learn heavy duty bashing for work, and happily did take the plunge. However, they also had me learn PHP and I’ll drop this as a hook and line for OP: you can do shell-script duties with PHP also, and once you hit your head on sed enough times, I hope you remember me telling this. All that string manipulation is much nicer with PHP functions, and for running shell commands there is shell_exec(). :)