Hello people!

Been a hot minute since I last shared about my "DIY Steam Machine" project, the GeekCube 4 months ago!

Project was on hiatus for basically just as long as I was away from CS.O too
but I resumed the work on this fairly recently after finding some more energy
& time to allocate on this

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Section #0 to #7 are making up "Chapter 1", which is about creating a more capable Steam Machine & emulating its entire feature set as close as possible with off-the-shelf parts only!

Note: Section #1 & #3 really being about the viability of reproducing this project,
with a set of guidelines that should help point people in sort of "à la carte" list
of options if they can't/don't want to copy this 1:1

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Section #8 and further are "Chapter 2", which is mainly everything that (almost) doesn't have to do with the PC aspect of it, it's all customization from there on out! It's all about giving it its own flair, how I wanna to customize it all, what kind of peripherals I am/will be using along with it & add features that are not present on the actual Machine that people could want on it, as well as a "compilation" of my notes about the software part of this, how is running SteamOS going, handling things only through Flatpaks, tuning the system via software & BIOS settings, etc...

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As it is right now, I am "bottlenecked" by 3D prints, my printer died on me recently and this old piece of junk has to go but while I got a friend to print some parts for me, that takes time and I haven't got to order a new printer just yet, so I'm a bit stuck for the time being haha

In the meantime, there's quite a bit to say about tuning the overall PC,
setting up a different proton build, the limitations of being locked to
Flatpaks... a bunch of this requires further testing so I'm not posting
that right away before I'm satisfied with the informations I wanna share
but if anyone got questions, I'll happily answer them!

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And now, to wrap up this update, I shall add a nice preview of the case's model I am working on!

Not the latest picture as I've done many changes already but it's mostly small details,
still quite close to the final design!

More pictures in Section #8-2 of the main log!