…as would the users…

It already is. The headline is missing “desktop”.

I’ll be damned if that is no prime number of cars sold!

You should worry about all personal data/accounts.
I worry about credentials saved in Firefox, Thunderbird, Nextcloud and my Steam account.

Spot-on!
That’s what I have (gaming and working unified) both at my Steam Deck running SteamOS (with profile encryption) and my laptop running Bazzite (with FDE).
My DeskMeet is off most of the time, although it has the most beefy GPU (sporting a PowerColor Radeon RX 9060 XT, which I just managed to fit in the case) - yet it also has the highest power consumption and I rarely need that power for the games I play most often. Btw. it runs Bazzite with FDE 😉

Like @Railcar8095@lemmy.world already explained, having some strong protection of data on a device like the Steam Deck, that can easily be lost/stolen seems to be warranted.

Aside from the saved login credentials of my Steam account, there are a lot more credentials saved on it, because I love to use the desktop mode as work environment.
Having someone getting access to several accounts saved in the browser or email client would be not very great to say the least.

I basically have one (based on DeskMeet X300), although it runs on Bazzite.
Dunno if SteamOS would’ve worked back when I set it up.

I preferred Bazzite, because it provides full disk encryption out of the box whereas there’s only a kind of workaround for encrypting the user profile on SteamOS - unless you want to risk breaking all by SteamOS updates.

With current prices building 3rd party Steam Machines is about as appealing as it is for Steam releasing Steam Machines.
I would’t have that “Steam Machine” if it weren’t for repurposing the DeskMeet X300 that I already had and which I no longer needed for its formerly intended purpose (it was in the end a waste running the Proxmox Virtual Environment there and I moved the PVE to a Dell Wyse 5070).
Well, that’s gone quite off-topic. What I wanted to say was simple:

current hardware prices are such a pain in the ass and make building Steam Machine no fun!

Clonezilla should suffice for cloning the SSD.
A docking station (like this) with included m.2 slot for the Steam Deck should do the trick to have both SSDs attached to the Steam Deck - if you plan on having a docking station for your Steam Deck anyway, that is.
Without such a docking station you need an adapter (or even two) for the SSD(s).
Easiest way would be to swap the SSDs and install SteamOS anew.

I upgraded mine with a Corsair MP600 Mini 2 TB back when that didn’t cost an arm and a leg.
Per GB SD cards aren’t a lot cheaper, but typically are slower and have worse durability than SSDs.
I do have an SD card in my Steam Deck, but only use it for my gog.com library. It makes moving that library between my Steam Deck and my laptop easy. On that SD card are only smallish games.
I wouldn’t want to run Cyberpunk 2077 from an SD card.

I wholeheartedly agree!
I installed Bazzite because I wanted an easy solution for my laptop with Nvidia GPU - now it’s my daily driver and gaming is only a fraction of its job.

Wouldn’t an AMD RX 9060 XT with 16 GB RAM be nice as well if you’re hunting for good speed/cost options?

10a is supported, but flagged experimental:
https://grapheneos.org/releases

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AMD and Intel offer quite nice GPUs.
I recently purchased a Radeon RX 9060 XT with 16 GB RAM. It does the job.

I can relate. I installed Bazzite, because I wanted a solution which works with my Nvidia GPU out of the box.
Now it’s my daily driver.

I don’t think that I’m the one in this conversation who appears to be bothered 🤗
I hope you manage to send the email and wish you a good day too.

Doesn’t it open your email program with all selected addressees?
What did you expect to go horribly wrong?

These politicians really aren’t afraid of those they were elected to represent…
For their sake I hope they stop this FAFO, before more damage is done.

Why don’t you just try it? 😉
But the answer is: yes.

Thank you for reading up on it and letting us know!

MW is no appropriate unit of energy; it’s a unit of power.
Something’s mixed up.