It's still around! Though its not the same hub for the fandom it was back in the day. Theres still a solid group of furs that hang out there though :)
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Yeah, the touchpad was juat a cheap standalone USB thing I got off AliExpress. 8f you take the caer off you just get a thin touch panel and a controller board. So I just took a bunch if measurements off the csse it came with and made my own version as part of the cyberdeck's case
Hard pass.
Depending what you want from a keyboard, the deck does have a pretty good one. Its a hand built mechanical keyboard with MX brown switches. But it's 40, which isn't to everyone's liking. its got full functionality, but cos its a reduced keyset you need touse more shift buttons to access it all. I really like 40% boards but I know the learning curve puts some people off.
And yeah, this deck can basically act like any regular server-room crash cart, just more cyber-y XD
Its currently running Ubuntu, though I originally intended to load itnup with Kali.
Well, it's running linux, so you can do more or less whatever you want with it. Its not super powerful but you can do some light gaming or whatever. I mainly use it for when I need to work directly with a server, but it can run a decent suite of infosec tools too, so it's good for that side of my work.
Sadly, that's one only you are able to properly answer. That said, if you're worried that you're faking it,then you're probably not faking it.