Steam Brick: A DIY cut-down Steam Deck, sans input and screen

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• Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is it not much easier and cheaper to buy a mini pc and run Steam with an OS of choice? (You can chose between any number of Linux distros, I use Arch btw). Steam can just launch on boot into big picture mode, it’s pretty much a console at that point.

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  • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mini PCs usually don’t have a battery. The use case for this conversion is on the go with AR glasses.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I recently went looking to see if there was a practical way to expose a USB powerstation to Linux as a battery under /sys/class/power_supply, the way internal laptop batteries are. Unfortunately, that didn’t appear to be the case. There are UPSes that NUT can monitor, but not a route to treat them the way Linux does laptop batteries. Kind of annoying, since for a luggable computer, it’d be really neat to have an external, expandable battery.

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  • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think it would be hard to find a NUC that costs the same or less and still performs the same as the Steam Deck. You could maybe get there with a custom-built SFFPC, but it would be tricky.

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    • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not sure what a Steam deck costs? $450 - $550?

      A Minisforum UM870 with 32GB of memory and 1TB SSD is around $500. That has an AMD Ryzen 7 8745H CPU. 8 cores 16 thread 4.9ghz boost Zen4. Gpu builtin Radeon 780M with 12 RDNA3 2.7ghz cores. That could give the Steam Deck a round for it’s money I think.

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