/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2701244
Maybe the focus shouldn't be on cyberdecks but instead cyberdocks, which as far as I can tell, isn't something anyone has really built yet unless you get wishy-washy about the definition.
It used to be common for laptop users to have a physical dock that they'd lock their laptop into. The dock had connections to a real monitor, full keyboard, mouse, tons of ports, and the ability to physically lock the laptop down. These days those have mostly been replaced by port replicators, which is often the size of a tablet with a bunch of cables going in and out. It quickly becomes a rat's nest and makes the laptop vulnerable to being accidentally knocked around.
A cyberdock could provide a curated set of ports, a better keyboard than the cracker thin one provided with the laptop, and a screen holder that locks the screen at a preferred angle. A Pi 400 based cyberdeck might be considered a version of this but those tend to permanently embed the Pi 400 into the device.