EG STARTS is a cheap (10 € in June 2022) circuit to connect a joystick and buttons to a PC via the USB interface. It is often used to build arcade-style consoles for retrogaming using the MAME software or alike, it is supported by the GNU/Linux operating system, but…

My first attempt to connect the EG STARTS to a Raspberry Pi running the operating system based on Debian 11 Bullseye was a total failure. The kernel started an infinite loop attaching and detaching the USB device:

that loop was revealed also by the red LED on the interface blinking continously.