There aren’t, to my knowledge, but I’m sure you could grab it and data from somewhere on the board.
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piyuv@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Interesting, I thought there wasn’t connectors for the front panel
artyom@piefed.social 2 days ago
piyuv@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It won’t look as clean as shown in the pictures then
artyom@piefed.social 2 days ago
Why not?
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It’s not hard to hide wires behind that big screen, even if you have to drill a little hole, no big deal.
Are you picturing a big USB or HDMI cable sticking out the side?
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It wouldn’t be the first product that started advertising the concept art as the finished product.
CMahaff@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Maybe there’s a spare USB header inside on the board?
riskable@programming.dev 2 days ago
As long as there’s some kind of power available inside the machine (e.g. an extra SATA power connector) it can just use that and wifi.
I suspect that the Valve engineers weren’t so short sighted though and probably have all the usual headers/connectors inside the thing that a normal PC would have. For example, a USB 3 header (the kind usually used for front-panel USB ports).
If anything, the device probably has at least one extra M.2 connector and a 1x or 4x PCI express connector. With those, anything is possible.
soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Could be wireless. That would also explain the “battery” mentioned in the poll on shitter.
markz@suppo.fi 2 days ago
Batteries on a device that needs wall power?
Well I guess I’ve seen things this dumb already so maybe
piyuv@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’d require charging it though
soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Yeah, I could imagine that it would need to be connected to a USB charger for that…
(I hope they make the suggested version with the eInk display. That way the image would persist even if the power runs out.)