This worked for me:

I went to a Starbucks,
Started a live-boot USB,
Got on the public WiFi for their public IP (valve,
Put in a simple login email,
Received the email, and confirmed it with the link they provided from a
cell phone on a VPN,
Made a password of about 20 characters with upper/lowercase letters,
spaces, and an exclamation point, I think it was ..? on the redirected
page on my laptop,
Got logged off, so logged in, again, on the PC.
and account, I had!

Not sure if this is something worth the trouble to do for most people
who are not conveniently there, but... it worked.


> moin moin,
>
> the SteamDeck looks great. Valve has done a lot to work with Linux and
> Free Software even putting out info on how to modify the SteamDeck if you
> can get one.
>
> The first step to get a SteamDeck is to setup an account in order to order one.
>
> But, the signon hasn't been working for me.
>
> I keep getting "The password you entered is not allowed. Plea
se select a
> different password, with at least 8 characters."
>
> Y'all know I would not default to something less than dozens of
> characters, so a short password is not the problem.
>
> I've tried with reduced special characters, without special characters,
> with only 8 characters and many, many other things.
>
> All the support options for valve presume you have an account, so not way
> of contacting them. If this is what their customer support is like then
> they really suck even if they are supporting Free Software.
>
> I allowed all the JavaScript, cookies and crap and it still doesn't work.
> I created a container and installed chromium and it still doesn't work.
>
> I'm tired of working for free for Valve, but I'd really like to get a
> steamdeck for kidling.
>
> Has anyone craeted a new account recently and knows the secret to getting
> their site to work or getting them to actually respond?
>
> ciao,
>
>