FreeGeek , 3411 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60647, is an oddity. Tucked into an alley, down a flight of stairs, into a basement, it's been around for over a decade, operates as a not for-profit, and offers some remarkably good deals. To wit: I found a Toshiba netbook (NB 505), running on Mint xfce, for $40. Nice little screen, keyboard, wifi, 2 gigs memory, 160 gigs storage, three USB ports. Pretty small, and light enough to throw into a backpack for the coffeeshop. At first, I thought this was great. Fun to play with, and I can use it when I'm offline. I almost bought it on the spot. I really like to write in emacs org-mode. I can't do that on my Chromebook. My Windows laptop now has a broken arrow key. But do I really need org-mode when I have Dynalist and Docs? The Toshiba is rather better than my old Acer netbook, which I got a lot of use from. Computers, Linux, used to be a hobby. I don't really do much of that anymore. $40 is pretty cheap for hours of t