Anyone know if and where the SR6 corebook says you need a cyberdeck to use attack and sleaze actions?
"
Hacking the MatrixHistorically, hacking the Matrix required a
considerable financial investment in the form of a
cyberdeck. The technology curve hasn’t flattened
out, but over time, subversive elements have found
ways to harness powerful computing using whatever
tools are at hand. This isn’t to say a good cyberdeck
isn’t worth its weight in gold, but at the
end of the day, a hacker with the right skills can
work wonders with even a kludged-together deck
(or if they’re a technomancer, no deck at all)." pg. 178
notice the last part, even with a kuldged-together deck or technomancer, which denotes to the two ways to use hacking, by deck or by technomancy.
They're also the only listed device with an Attack/Sleaze rating.
"In game terms, the difference between a commlink
and a cyberdeck is that the cyberdeck possesses
the Matrix Attributes needed for hacking
(see Personas and Attributes, below)."
"If the device doesn’t possess one or more
of the Matrix attributes, then the applicable attribute
is treated as if it were 0. You can rotate any
non-zero attributes through your persona, even
if they originated from different devices" pg 174
So, yeah, Cyberdeck required.