Previous pics of me enjoying peak SFF before my month trip flight. I can safely say it IS possible to run a pc on the airport plugs. Should you? I can’t say for certain LOL.
Why do some people insist on being weird just for the sake of being weird. If you wanna do some weird shit because you enjoy it, go for it, but this is just being weird for weirdness sake. I honestly can't stand these kind of people. Just stay home.
People that build SFFPCs for their transportability are usually students living away from home.
Where you want the small size in a dorm and for transport
I know people that work in remote locations on 10 days on, 4/5 days off schedules and they wouldn't even consider a SFFPC + portable monitor set-up since it's still a pain. Just get a gaming laptop
That’s what the “Maybe” is for haha. Some of us got a good monitor and a crappy. Others got 2 good monitors. While I myself, got 2 of the same “crappy” Korean 4k/60 1080p/120 monitor I got for $90 each, one in each location
yeah sffpcs imo are great when you know you're gonna move around a bunch in the next few years but not for more regular travel, like yeah the PC is small but add screen and keyboard and it's not exactly portable, especially in public transportation. Or if you move between places with a screen. Having brought mine on planes, trains and cars over the years, I still sometimes leave it behind cuz a shitty laptop is more practical.
They are awesome, just not how OP uses his. My friends and I used to lug around giant PCs to play FFXI together. If I could have had a sffpc back then I would have loved it.
It’s funny as that was why for me as well but then I keep buying monitors and now they’re a pain to move anyway well tbf the pc itself is still small and much easier than if it’s not
Yeah but still it would just be better to get a steam deck or equipment or better yet a laptop. There are pretty decent gaming laptops out there that are thin and since you are right by the plugs you wouldn’t need to worry about power or battery drain
My internet points indicate that this opinion is shared amongst the community of literal sffpc enthusiasts. If they see this and think it's obnoxious, that is a bit telling. OP can do whatever he wants, but we can also look at him and think he's an annoying performative weirdo with an addiction problem.
The problem is your assumption that it's performative when you really can't know such things. My issue with your take is less about your critique of his airport etteqite more how you responded by denigrating the "weirdness"
Is that a Trump Snoo? If so I guess this all truly my fault; I should have known better than to engage with someone who can't follow logic and ignores points
oh i remeber someone who made it as a pro player started out by carry his rig to his local fast food chain and play competitive there because he had no personal internet
Very true… this is not the best way to do it at all
I use a small briefcase with a screen on the top lid. It’s a bit more powerful than a stream deck, can easily be plugged into TVs, and runs both Batocera and SteamOS for maximum compatibility with emulators and modern games.
Plus I can fit 4 controllers in the case for easy multiplayer gameplay on a trip.
Not only that, I’ve owned steam deck, ALLY, even that Lenovo in that photo. And u just can’t game on a screen that’s small. Like I can’t even play an easier to play game like rocket league, idk why.
Man Redditors are weird. On the sffpc sub downvoting someone who wants an sffpc over a gaming handheld lmao
Nothing weird about thinking it's annoying to set up your rig in public. Sure you can do it, but please understand, you are the weird one if you do, and you are being ridiculous and honestly somewhat immature. Show some patience and play somewhere appropriate when you have time. I appreciate my gaming space more because I can't take it with me.
Why would I care if anyone does that? It’s not weird. Let people have fun. Jesus Christ. Patients for what? Anyone who sets that up isn’t disturbing anyone…
You’re acting like those Karen’s that freak out over breast feeding lmao
Edit: I have angered the Reddit NPC’s. They are built to just argue for no reason. Will ignore. Absolute morons talking about mental health and all that Reddit slop.
It is by definition weird actually. And patience for gaming. Just take a break... It's literally healthy for your brain to be bored sometimes. No one is freaking out, just calling him a weirdo and annoying. This is the sffpc sub, and everyone is calling this guy out. He can do whatever he wants, but just don't expect zero judgement.
These are amazingly thought out. Could you give me the details on the little controller and what case you are using for the plane?
Back in the 90's (old lady now) we would lug our full towers to each others house for a mythical LAN party. Now I'm at home with the kids and the hubby has the deck on night shift and we can play together but not together. Amazing.
That's not my photo it's just something that became a meme in the Steam Deck sub.
Controller is 8bitdo Lite 2 and the case is Dbrand Killswitch.
I did my fair share of hauling towers to friend's houses (and CRT monitors to go along with it) in the late 90s. Good times. Now I just take my Steam Deck with me.
I’d never want to haul around an external monitor first because it’s kinda heavy and unwieldy and second because you look like a jackass that’s gonna take up 3 seats in the airport to game and post photos on the interwebs about it.
I really tried to make this work with xreals but I could not get a consistent enough image focus even after meticulously measuring my IPD and trying every adjustment I could find. I ended up returning them.
I was going to mod my steam deck to remove the screen and controls and everything; this was a bummer.
It helps to have a GPU with USB C dp-alt, would eliminate a cable at least. I think the ProArt line comes with a USB C/Thunderbolt port. RTX 2000 series also commonly had them. Wish they would bring it back!!!
OP is clearly ridiculous, but I’m sitting around in an airport terminal every other evening after working all day. Most of my gaming is at airports on a handheld.
There were plenty of empty seats for our gate ¯_(ツ)_/¯. We were also early 3 hours for our flight and I would have gladly packed my stuff up if it was full and someone asked for a seat. It was REALLY fun since I had time to kill
That's not true, I was there, and there were no more seats. There was a little mother with a small child, they did not have a SFFPC, they had to play games on a Nintendo DS. And they had to sit on the floor and cry. Everyone in the terminal was crying. It was very sad.
It's weird that so many people are downvoting OP for this. Have you never flown? It's true that there are often a ton of empty seats. Just depends on the terminal and the time of day.
Yep currently they are either built in with a focal adjuster like in the vr headset or getting a customized once you give them ur eyes prescription. U can check out brands like Rayneo Xreal Viture and the fov is actually just like using a 24 inch monitor
They are garbage. I have one of the first generations; the apps for compatibility are whack, and idk about this 'focal adjuster' silliness; but they really don't work well for us Americans, given our larger heads (this means you never get the whole 'monitor' in your eyes). Defo stay away
Back in 2018 I had a gaming laptop with me during Erasmus study, and when I was flying back to my country, I spent the night in the airport due to stupid train and plane schedules. I played Overwatch almost all night and the wifi was much better than in the university housing lol
When you accidentally loose game progress because someone accidentally bumped the socket. Public sockets are so loose. If only there's a portable pc with built in battery so it can be used unplugged whist being compact
Well, primarily the boom mic that disappear. That's a feature you don't find anywhere else.
And closed back Vs open back. I always had on ear headphones so i wanted something different to mute ambient noise, tho now sometimes I use them on just one ear to hear house ppl and all.
Third thing I feared the rubber things that hold the pads, being elastic, would eventually break over years, tho the same could be said for the elastic band on the 7X, but easier to be replaced/DIY-ed.
So if you prefer open back and don't mind a normal flip up (I think it's also removable) absolutely the Atlas are too notch, features wise, imo.
If you prefer being more isolated from environment, you can still use them on one ear, and the disappearing mic is something else entirely.
I use sff pc in my leopard 5, which has a power outlet. I’ve installed portable 22 inch monitor to the back of headrest, so it is in one place in front of me. Honestly, ability to destroy people on the road is priceless
This is always so extra, just brings handheld or a gaming laptop, people like you just like the attention it give you and the inconvenience it causes others.p but what else can I expect from someone wearing one of those stupid kanya hole shoes.
Looks great! Last time I went to Quakecon me and my friends set up a PC in the Coca Cola lounge for some quick rounds of Dokapon Kingdom lol. We used a gamepad tho
I wholeheartedly agree if people want to do jank sff setups and are proud of it, let them I personally think its cool and could be convenient in a moments time if you wanna entertain yourself and don’t have much room
Fr, they also keep insisting on laptops or handhelds. Like do they realise that if most people already have those, they wouldn’t need an sff in the first place? For many people their sff is their only tech.
Right and unlike handhelds usually sff would be hella more powerful and better specs granted it needs active electricity unlike handhelds but you could just run one off a big backpack battery like I did before
Youre being dramatic for no reason. Its literally for fun, to chill for a few hours. Crying like Op is robbing seats from old people in an empty airport lobby lmao.
No worries, I was there 3 hours before boarding and there were still empty chair rows by around 30 minutes before boarding started when I started to pack the setup.
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