Abt switch
The Abt switch is a kind of railway switch used on funiculars (inclined cable railways) that doesn’t have any moving parts. It allows two cars to pass each other going uphill/downhill while sharing the same tracks. While most train switches rely on physically moving a section of track so the train goes one way or the other, the abt switch doesn’t move at all. Instead each carriage has a grooved wheel which makes it turn left or right at a junction by sticking to the track on one side.
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I wasn’t advocating for you to buy a Steam Deck. I was just saying that you can use Steam as a controller-friendly launcher on your existing PC, to solve the problem you stated about not wanting to walk over and use KB/mouse to play games.
I don’t know what OS you’re on, but on Windows there is “One Game Launcher pro” on Windows store for a maybe offline option. I just think the steam features like steam input are worth using even for non steam games.
If you never buy a game or enter payment details I think the most info they need is name and email address. And you can basocally be perpetually be in offline mode if you don’t need game updates or to let Steam do game licence checks. Just make sure to configure it to default to library screen and big picture mode when you open it.
I could create a burner account and then have steam be sandboxed to never connect to the network. I think I’ll try that, I’m on NixOS
so installing Steam isnt too much of a hassle.