Wow the Devterm looks amazing. Unfortunately according to reviews, the quality is extremely subpar. I get it’s niche but at that price, it’s probably a better financial design to get an iPad mini with a small keyboard.
I also love the design of the Devterm and would absolutely have bought one if reviews were better.
I mostly use it to read gopher:// and the kids love printing things off using it's thermal printer.
I usually hold it with my hands and use my thumbs, like a Game Gear. Re-mapping the "d-pad" joystick and "yxba" buttons to arrow keys and hjkl [1] makes it easy to read and navigate text content on it (hence of gopher://), especially with the wide and high resolution screen.
1. https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/mapping-devterm-r-01-gamepad...
[1] https://www.talospace.com/2022/05/mini-review-clockwork-pi-d...
Clockwork will ship, it takes them some time. The software support isn’t great, and the community does a lot of the heavy lifting.