I agree with Gris. Windows 10 would be better overall, but at that price point a Chromebook will work best. Technically, you probably could get Minecraft running with a little tech-fu (a Chromebook is a Linux computer at heart), but it would be complicated. Malware should be less of a concern on a Chromebook as well (I would say no concern, but since it can run android apps now I'm not quite as sure).

You could also look for a reconditioned Thinkpad at $200. They are good, tough laptops and since they are enterprise devices they get dumped into the used market in large numbers. My five and half year old Thinkpad Edge (the cheapest version) still runs great even though I've dropped it onto concrete.

I want to deactivate my twitter accounts because I am sick of dealing with twitter. There has to be a way. The instructions for deactivating twitter accounts does not work from a mobile device. So ... wait... I can sign up for twitter using an iPad, but I can't leave? This isn't Hotel California, there has to be a way.

Instructions says you can't do it on mobile. [link]

So it is Hotel California. Well then, add whoever's is responsible for that decision to the list of people I line up on the wall when the revolution comes.

This? This makes the kind of sense that Trump being president of anything other than the Hair Club for Men makes. If antivaxxers and Creationists and climate change deniers included this kind of shit as their proofs of why science isn't real, we would have nothing on them.

Can you do it through the website? Does the iPad allow you to view websites in desktop mode?

Cereal to say: if safari won't let you access the desktop version of Twitter.Com on your iPad, try installing Firefox. I've not used the iOS version but the Android version at least has consistently let me use the desktop version of sites from my phone.

So far the web browsers of Ecosia, LastPass, and Chrome will not allow me to view Twitter in desktop mode. I find myself unwilling to sign up for and/or download yet another thing to take care of problems with some other thing I signed up for. I flat out do not have any faith in that method. So far it only snowballs the problems. I do realize that at some point I will reach the critical mass of signing up for things, but I need some proof that that critical mass < all of the things that can be signed up for, eveywhere.

In case anyone else wants to know, here is the solution that Daniel found for me. Go to this website [link] click on the "direct removal link". You will get a "page not found" error. Using the thingy at the top of the Safari tool bar that is the square with the arrow pointing up, there is a "request desktop site". Click that while on the page not found, that should let you into where you can deactivate your account.

I was able to request (and get to) the desktop site in Chrome on my iPhone.

In terms of the cheap laptop - how about Linux? Linux should run as well on cheap hardware as on a chromebook. You are not limited to browser baeed software. And you can run Firefox for most browser based software. Not a rece by me but I wonder what the experts on this stuff think.