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Any model from any major brand made in the last 10 years off craigslist?
With that kind of spec I, don't know what you're expecting—anything that turns on will be able to do that.
The hard part is tiny: 10" diagonal screen and really cheap: like milk money cheap - - Perhaps a netbook would work, some of them were Linux based right?
https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Latitude-3190-11-6inch-Gorilla/dp/B07RXH56C5/
$89. The alternatives are $180+, so this is about as good as you're going to get unless you go second hand, and most of the time second hand is more expensive than new because people want to recoup the costs as much as possible without actually thinking about what a fair price is.