And that’s just smart design, so you don’t get fried if the breaker or RCD is physically blocked or is wilfully held in place, like with hillbilly Bob over here.
They could have easily crammed the Steam Deck full of stuff to make it hard to use for piracy - locking down everything, making it usable only to play games you legitimately own, force you to go through who knows what hoops in order to play games on it. That’s what Nintendo or Apple or most other companies do....
Let’s just hope for Gabe to live a long life still. Valve is a private company and not nearly as much in danger for enshittification as a public company would be.
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I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."
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