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Steam Brick Makes Your Steam Deck Headless (hackaday.com)

submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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[–] magnetichuman@fedia.io 76 points 1 year ago

I have no mouth and I must screamdeck

[+] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Possibly if you destroy your deck but the mobo survives

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Possibly for 2029 when used Decks become cheap and readily available and great candidates for lightweight HTPCs. Hell, I can see someone who’s put a lot of miles on an original Deck doing this to their original one after getting an updated one/competitor in like a year or two from now. You don’t need to do any modding for that to be honest, but a small device with a screen (and an old lithium battery…) collecting dust probably looks worse than a box. At least that’s my impression from my Switch. I can see people finding a handheld upgrade more worth it than a PC upgrade (the first 5090 presale listings are up where I am and they’re north of 3000$).

Seriously, I’ve played lots of less-demanding games on my TV via a docked Deck, and it’s been surprisingly nice. A lot of these bundled games I wouldn’t have even tried. What the Golf is a silly mobile game that I got in a bundle that I ended up playing on the big screen. And I’ve bought a lot of bundles in the past, so I’ve got a lot of games to try.

For more demanding games that the system can play, you get tiny battery life. So this does make more things more playable. So I get it.

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You'd need to plug in most of those mini PC right? I'm guessing that price for the performance is actually pretty decent for his use case, connecting to AR glasses on the go.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the battery is integrated to the brick. Their is no hardware for sale for this kind of thing. You have to customers build everything and make some customizations to the OS. I tried a project like this years ago with a raspberry pi and a vufine as a screen. The customization were heavy and the thing was barely able to run any game for 300€ of hardware.

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, saw an article about a ~$600 battery powered mini PC that would've possibly been a slightly less involved alternative, but it seems like the product itself has been wiped from existence.

On a side note, I bet it's a lot more durable without the screen but it's a shame he couldn't put a protective layer over it that slid on and off, would've really made it way cooler than just a mini pocket PC

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah or a screen cover like flip flop phone. That still a cool starting point for modders. The know issues are pretty much a no go for now. Especially the inability to go in the bios

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 8 points 1 year ago

Because he could.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago

that's a cool project

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago

So, no head?

[–] Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

He hwat!

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 5 points 1 year ago

Why