caseyweederman

You can do it with prismlauncher and just hit cancel every time it prompts you to enter your Mojang account

Think I Hate It

The one in the link is a 7.9 inch touch screen, looks actually pretty decent, size-wise: https://www.waveshare.com/7.9inch-dsi-lcd.htm

Although, if you mean to share or edit or anything that would require digitization, you’ll need to transfer your typed pages as an additional step.

Distraction-free typing work like writing or coding

I’m a different person but I sure do.

Okay but
Intrusive thoughts and lack of filter are NOT A GOOD COMBINATION

Or it’s the thing that I’m already looking at, in my hand, but I need it for a separate function so my brain defaults to treating it like a separate object

Well, it’s not a phone replacement yet.

Valve brought gaming to Linux, I’m confident they could bring banking to Linux too.

Why use the word rape at all there? Lack of imagination?

However, their decision-making skills are less thrilling.

Be pretty fucking cool though

Only if the phone hardware is closed and locked. If not for chip manufacturer patents, stock Debian would run no problem on every new phone a week or two after it hit the shelves (if not sooner, like when friendly vendors send early hardware out to developers).
Instead, every revision of every model phone has a bunch of unique black-box bullshit that must be reverse-engineered, all of which expressly exists to keep you from using your hardware the way you want.

You know all of this.
The point (that you made, that) I want to emphasize is: Valve is a hardware manufacturer now.
And I would absolutely buy an AARCH64 Steam Deck that could replace my Android.

Why not go for the Family Basic instead?

A Circulation Booster!

I’m currently living in Canada and we’ve seen two snowflakes this entire winter (they fell in October)

Ah yes. Jean Lenin.

I would still get a ThinkPad, but then, I would never be putting Windows on it anyway.

It’s the Go Gopher