Well. Let’s see how that turns out.

Similar theme to open tofu. https://openbao.org/

Exzellent work. Will probably get around to installing an instance for friends and family. This seems quite user-friendly.

Don’t think they can afford to subside the sale if they don’t have their own shop. So maybe lower binned parts from AMD?

They have to save money somewhere.

While there is better hardware out there now I can guarantee you that the software sucks on all of them in comparison to the steam deck. And if you run HoloISO on them you won't get the full feature suite.

Plus of course the price point. You can get a refurbished SteamDeck for like 330€ now. While alternatives start at like at least twice that for almost the same performance.

Yes. They are using WebUSB. That’s only supported on chrome browsers for now. But it also works on Linux. The home automation community makes great use of that api.