Also, that’s an easy wish right there. It will 100% be somewhere in between those numbers, don’t worry.

That was my joke.

“An iPhone” is such a weird comparison to make.

In my region I can buy new iPhones from €119 (iPhone SE 32GB) to €2400 (iPhone 17 Pro Max 2TB).

I hope the steam machine is somewhere in between this range.

This is exactly it. If you buy a €20 SSD you’ll be disappointed as well.

Depends on what metric you look at.

• Lifetime when stored on a shelf: HDD wins
• Lifetime while powered: SSD wins
• Lifetime while constantly writing: HDD wins
• Lifetime when used in a mobile device that gets thrown around: SSD wins

I guess, most people who buy a steam deck already own a PC.

Would be the same for me. I’d get a steam deck to game on the go, but I already have (multiple) PCs. So why would I replace my PC with a Steam Deck?

It might be an use case for a student or other young person who is getting their first device, but then again I feel if you have only one device, a laptop is the more sensible, more versatile choice.

I’m pretty sure that for most people a steam deck or similar device is a secondary or tertiary device.

Total agreement.

It sucks when a device category dies and disappears. Most people might not care, but those who do really do, and it sucks when you can’t upgrade to what you want anymore.

I’m not a handheld guy, but for me, it’s phones with keyboards.

So if there’s somebody making boutique devices for niche audiences, more power to them!

Handheld gaming PCs are really not necessary devices, so if you can’t afford a high-end one, get a cheap one. And if you can’t afford that, stick a gamepad on your phone and boot up a switch emulator or winlator.

Leave people their niche hobbies!

That happens so often with non-corporation FOSS. Some dude makes something cool and shares it for free, and in turn they get a butload of entitled support requests of idiots who think that “customer is king” applies for stuff they didn’t pay for too, and who think that the developer owes them something for using his software.

A similar thing happened with M66B. He got so fed up that he pulled all his apps. Luckily people managed to talk him out of it, but it’s really understandable.

Because he kept getting entitled support requests for badly packaged versions of his project in some linux distros.

The entitlement is strong. But not with the person who creates an open source emulator in their spare time and gives it away for free, but for those who demand free support.

It’s a quite common issue with open source stuff.

• Dude makes a thing.
• Dude thinks maybe others could benefit from it, so he gives it away for free
• Entitled morons think customer is king also applies for stuff they didn’t pay for and demand free support
• Dude gets overwhelmed and frustrated by having to play free customer support hotline for his free product and after a while pulls back
• Entitled morons get up in arms and call dude condescending and worse for not doing free customer support for the free thing, somehow believing that dude owes them something.

Especially considering that warranty is usually region-locked. You usually can’t claim warranty from outside of the country where you bought it.

So if your friend in France has to claim warranty, they’d have to first ship it to Canada so that someone else (e.g. you) can do the warranty claim for them.

Also, warranty is usually region-locked, even if the device is not.

Buying a steam deck in Canada usually gives you warranty in Canada. So of you then use the device in France and it breaks, then you have to first ship it to some friend in Canada, so they can do a warranty claim.

Debatable. They are an island next to Europe. But apart from that, you just stumbled across the joke.

That was the joke.

Nope, UK is not part of Europe anymore ;)

Add to that, that all these old UK houses have about as much insulation as a cereal box.

A Bedouin outfit might not fit socially, but a loose summer dress might work just as well.

So as a counter to the “pants for women” movement, let’s start a “summer dresses for everyone” movement.

They’d just migrate to some EU alternative: https://alternativeto.net/software/squarespace/?origin=eu

Might not be super easy and they might not get the same results, bit if there’s no squarespace it will do.

If the USA switches off cloud services for the EU, that’s a short-term problem. Really bad short term, but after a month or so everything is back up and running.

That’s like a whopping 0.01% of dog owners.

That’s a fair assessment.