The first construction step is cardboard. The most important decision, according to the company that sells the chip, is which box you put it in.
A modder took a 1995 Casio day planner and rebuilt the entire inside while leaving the outside untouched. The instinct here is the opposite of the cyberdeck: don't invent a new form for the silicon, find one that already knows what it wants to be.
A six-year-old System76 Galago Pro with the desktop OS wiped, replaced by a black tty that boots straight into vim. Network-manager exists only so files can sync when there's signal. The rest of the time, the laptop just writes.
A mermaid-themed computer in a thrifted clamshell purse. 32 million TikTok views. The cyberdeck scene just discovered what happens when someone brings taste.