I had one of these in translucent purple to match the Gameboy and it was dope.

I use GarHAge which uses open hardware and software and was pretty easy and cheap too. https://github.com/marthoc/GarHAge

Yeah that’s a pretty important distinction. I can buy Rimworld from the Steam store, or I can buy a Rimworld Steam key straight from the Ludeon website for the same price or I can buy a DRM copy for less I just won’t get Steam features like automatic updates, cloud saves, or the mod workshop.

Seems reasonable they don’t want you using the platform for distribution while undercutting the storefront price.

So can developers just ‘create’ steam keys out of thin air that can be used to activate their game on steam? Does Valve get paid when the keys are created or activated? Or not at all?

Seems fair maybe if it’s using all of Steams infrastructure, considering developers can distribute the game themselves without steam keys.

Consider buying used hardware from an office. Lots of places sell used gear for dirt cheap. A used office desktop with a used GPU from the last 3 years or so would be a massive upgrade without spending much.

Steam Deck is still a good deal for what it is though, but I wouldn’t use it as a primary workstation.

On a handheld? Probably depends how much you use it outside game mode and what you do with it.

On a desktop? No. It’s not intended to be a fully functional desktop OS.

Yup, I messed it up. I edited my post to be the correct way around.

Hemingway used to say “Write drunk, edit sober.” I’ve modernized that a bit for my own personal philosophy:

Code drunk. Debug drunk. Merge drunk.

I never update my spell book and nothing bad has ever happened.

Help. Infernal imps somehow got inside my sanctum and used my scrying orb to send rude messages to the rest of the Circle.

Look upon what thou has twat and ponder it.

They’ll require a persistent online connection for cloud compute.