Pine is an interesting company that currently makes single board computers that will run a real operating system fairly well. The ARM version of Android as well as Ubuntu and OpenSUSE. The current cost for the board: 15 to 50 dollars, depending on memory — a starter kit with a wifi module costs eighty bucks, complete with a micro USB with an OS on it.

This can do almost everything my desktop does. Just not as fast, and without support for an IPS screen. Which helps for photos. But… the same guys are releasing a laptop with an IPS screen for US 150.

Running something that is not deliberately dumbed down, like chromeOS. Cheap. Almost disposable cheap. Will hack an open box for blogging and wait for the laptop. This is a far simpler way of computing than big boxes.

Update: Vid.me is starting to work. Here is a Linux distro review: I am still using Antergos.