Yes, exactly.

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc515

Theft loss.

You’re right. Here’s the difference though. With “piracy” they can estimate how many copies have been “stolen” and deduct that from their taxable income.

It’s in the app store. You don’t have to do that. If you’re talking about the server, that’s pretty easy.

Yeah, that’s a big limitation.

Oracle is awesome in this one specific way. They suck in all other ways but this is really good.

Seriously, just set up a kms in docker. Google pykms.

I use portainer, and when I deploy an image, I write a short bash script for it.

• stop the image if running
• pull the image
• run the image

This lets me easily do updates. I have a script for each image I run, it’s less than a dozen. They’re all from public repositories.

If your computing needs are light, you can definitely use a steam deck as a laptop, but while traveling it won’t be a great experience for general computing. As a game system, it’s amazing. I absolutely love my deck.