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Yeah, works totally fine on Linux. You'll probably want to use jackd to route the audio for low latency.

GDPR does technically apply to any entity providing services (even free ones like a forum) to EU users. Enforcement is unlikely, but it's possible. As a US-run site, the California Consumer Privacy Act is closer to home. Also unlikely to be enforced, but it's worth considering some mechanism that can satisfy the CCPA personal data deletion requirements.

I understand the desire to save important information but I'd hate to see this site get tangled in this personal data protection web. Maybe a tool for deleting personal data, username, etc, but leaving anonymized posts behind? Maybe a policy where users can request any posts with personal data removed?

Where are the best places to buy these?

I'd like to find somewhere in the UK/EU but my main criteria is that I'm buying from a trustworthy seller.

Protracker and Fasttracker II both run perfectly fine on windows and have scaling options for modern displays. Their UIs are simple and blocky, but they're both designed to be used heavily with hotkeys, so they're far from unusable.

You might not like that type of software, but I don't want people reading this to think those programs are actually incompatible or difficult to use on a modern Windows or Linux machine.

With the right microcontroller on the cartridge it wouldn't be unreasonable. You'd need to have reads and writes handled by the microcontroller. This device can already load save data from the SD card into a fast-access medium. I haven't seen the board, so I don't know if it's using a µc with on-chip ram or some sort of non-volatile ram/eeprom chip.

To get "real-time" saving to the SD card, a cartridge needs to handle read/swrites to the SRAM fast enough for the Game Boy but also perform buffered writes to the SD card. There are definitely microcontroller chips out there that could handle that but the additional development costs and even the per-chip cost would make for a more expensive product. At that point, you're better off designing something like the Drag'n'Derp, which is even simpler to use and more robust.

Since these use SD cards, I'm guessing the battery is fork the working ram in some way? Can you back up that working ram back to the SD card easily?

I'm confident that this would be totally possible. Obviously, it depends a bit on the complexity of the functionality you want to add, but you could do a whole lot even within the limitations of a pretty basic atmel microcontroller.

Most atmel chips, and therefore most Arduinos and Arduinoboys, have plenty of spare digital pins available for use as inputs and outputs.

If you know nothing about programming then this project is definitely well out of your grasp for now. Arduinos make great platforms for learning electronics and software engineering but this project would require a lot of time invested in building up those skills before you could even begin to tackle this particular project.

Whether it's worth your time or not, that's a different question. If you already want to learn these skills then I don't think it would be a bad idea spending a year or so working towards those goals. I think that with hard work it would be possible for someone, depending on their aptitude, to learn the necessary skills in even as little as a few months if they worked at it.