Great project! Off-topic question: What is the controller in the final image?
Edit: Found it, it's the 8bitdo Pro 2
Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port
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Re: Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port
#142How do you game without a controller? I must be missing something since nobody else asked..
Controller seems wireless and usb port used for glasses.
This compared to the deck which has a screen and controller integrated.
Re: Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port
#143How do you game without a controller? I must be missing something since nobody else asked..
Controller seems wireless and usb port used for glasses. This compared to the deck which has a screen and controller integrated.
If he has to carry a controller as well, I don't see the benefit. Together with the controller the setup will be bigger than the steam deck.
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#144Are NUCs with batteries unserved market? Just thinking of them as concept. How popular would they be?
SimulaVR will do this (NUC+battery), but on a VR headset.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the non-Brits, "sixth-form" means years 12 and 13 of school - equivalent to junior and senior years of high school in the US. The first and second yearsof sixth form are referred to as "lower sixth" and "upper sixth" respectively. It's a hold-over term from when secondary education (ages 11 and up) started in "first form" and worked up.
Interestingly enough, the French do it the other way around, and start counting from the final year (they also start at 0 so it's offset by one). That's arguably a better system since you can keep adding earlier and earlier years (mandatory school starting age has drifted from 11 to 6 to 3 over the years) while keeping everything consistent. Unfortunately they messed it up in 1959 by renaming 12th to 7th and giving m…
French and Brits do a lot of things the other way around, like imperial system, ATON/NATO, driving on the other side of the road.
Just mentioned the age bracket. Kids who are younger or older are outliers.
Re: Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port
#146This isn't all that different to how I use my gaming PC - it's off in another room, with a monitor that is plugged in but almost always off (I don't think Windows will boot without at least something plugged in?), Steam set to start on boot, and then I entirely use it via Steam Remote Play from my main PC.
Windows will boot without a monitor, or at least, it used to, not sure about Windows 11. But Steam Link mirrors your display, and so doesn’t work without one.
Can confirm. I boot Windows 11 without screen, then connect via RDP without issue
Re: Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interestingly enough, the French do it the other way around, and start counting from the final year (they also start at 0 so it's offset by one). That's arguably a better system since you can keep adding earlier and earlier years (mandatory school starting age has drifted from 11 to 6 to 3 over the years) while keeping everything consistent. Unfortunately they messed it up in 1959 by renaming 12th to 7th and giving m…
Actually, it's more complex than this in France. There is 5 systems: - depending of the Ministry of Eduction : - for toddlers : maternelle (3-6 yo) - Primary : CP (6 yo, primary), CE1 (elementary 1), CE2, CM1 (middle 1), CM2 - Secondary : - College (not the US one!) : 6th (~11 yo), 5th, 4th, 3th (with exam at the end) - Lycée : 2nd (~15 yo), 1st, Terminal (with 'Baccalauréat' exam at the end) then depending of Minist…
The P in CP doesn't stand for "primary" but for "preparatory"
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could get a dummy HDMI plug for $3 on Amazon and free up that monitor if you need it. [1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/BKFK-HDMI-Dummy-Plug-3840x2160/dp/B0C...
I still don't understand why operating systems can't properly work without a screen. I have a Linux "home server" and I haven't found a way to boot up a graphical session with everything working (there were bugs in some applications, like menus not showing up, you couldn't change resolution, etc.). A dummy HDMI plug fixed it, but still. It's 2025, come on.
Back in days (around twenty years ago) I used NoMachine on Debian/SPARC to do exactly this: run GNOME remotely.
Waypipe nowadays allows the same, but I don't think it has resuming support.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still don't understand why operating systems can't properly work without a screen. I have a Linux "home server" and I haven't found a way to boot up a graphical session with everything working (there were bugs in some applications, like menus not showing up, you couldn't change resolution, etc.). A dummy HDMI plug fixed it, but still. It's 2025, come on.
Headless X11 machines were a thing then it was all abandoned.
Wayland. Solving the problems of yesterday, tomorrow.
Re: Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port
#150If you need to enter the BIOS: bring up the terminal, and write
`systemctl reboot --firmware-setup`
This reboots systemd-powered systems to the UEFI menu. May not work on other init systems, but SteamOS is based on Arch with systemd.