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cm0002@lemmy.world to Steam Deck@sopuli.xyz · 6 months ago

Steam Brick Makes Your Steam Deck Headless

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Steam Brick Makes Your Steam Deck Headless

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cm0002@lemmy.world to Steam Deck@sopuli.xyz · 6 months ago
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Handhelds are designed to be portable, but what if you need something smaller than OEM? The Steam Brick pulls basically everything off of a Steam Deck to make it as portable as possible. [crastinat…
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  • magnetichuman@fedia.io
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    I have no mouth and I must screamdeck

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    If you have a steam deck laying around and you want to tear it down to make it “headless”, please send it to me? Why on earth would anyone do that to a steam deck?

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      The reason is they want to use an HMD instead of the built in display so they make the deck smaller and lighter because they can

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    that’s a cool project

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    So, no head?

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    A while ago I was thinking about doing something similar, but tearing down a working one seemed wastwful. I also couldn’t find a motherboard on its own (neither trough the repair program nor elswhere), so I shelved the idea.

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      Ifixit was SUPPOSED to sell replacement mobos. It was advertised everywhere but now they silently do not anymore

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    [crastinator-pro] found they rarely used the controller or screen on their Steam Deck,

    He hwat!

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    Why

  • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Actually, a cheap stick (combined with the supposed new Steam controller they’re making) could be a good product.

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