Such a person won't be helped at all by a hackerspace / incubator-type facility either (if it's located in town), I had assumed we were talking about people with some limited means.
My point is most people do not bother to explore their options/ seek more information. Has any one of your acquaintances asked to borrow your computer/laptop? or asked to stay late at your residence while utilizing it? They are blocked by a problem of 'ownership of a computer', instead of decomposing it to the easier-to-solve problem of 'access to a computer'. I'm not sure if that even qualifies as 'thinking outside the box', but everyone could do with more of it.