I’m especially curious about the “find someone who will do it as a service” bit, though. How could I find such a person?

Really depends on where you live. Local classifieds, local p2p selling apps like offerup, facebook marketplace (gross), craigslist, word of mouth from friends/family/coworkers, asking here, or reddit (also gross). Otherwise there's plenty of sites willing to let you ship a switch to them and do it for monies.

As far as vetting anything you find, feel it out as best you can via communication and reviews. I have no recommendations for anything specific unfortunately.

Is there really no way to homebrew a Mariko Switch without soldering?

No, there isn't.

I’m extremely afraid to fuck up anything with my Switch BUT I want the free games.

So find someone who will do it as a service, or buy a V1 and sell your mariko.

How come there is no way to exploit the software like it happened with V1?

Because it was a bug, and they fixed it.

Isn’t the modding community invested in claiming another console?

Of course, but 90% of the community is going to say that modchip is "good enough" and move on.

Or is the thing that really tough to homebrew without the hardware modding?

Yes.

That's the power of GitHub. The fork still shows idolize as the author and clearly has gpl3 license (added by idolize). They can change what they want in the original repo, but the fork is covered forever, and ironclad proof of the licensing. If OP's code is based off this fork, unmodified (of which it's a fork, also ironclad proof it's that gpl3 version) then it's also gpl3. Saaaafe. This should be open and shut on github's end, just a dumb DMCA report.

This is a strange argument to me. I just don't get it.

So. You have the controller, advertised 35+h life on a single charge.

Unless you're some sort of gaming machine, even a no-lifer sleeps.

We'll do a crazy minimum, you sleep 4h a day. that's 20h for gaming. You plug it in when you sleep, a time when no one will be using it and it can be "tethered".

if it's a straight line (it's probably not) 20h/35h gets you down to 42% battery.

Even 2-3 years later, battery should be between 70-80% capacity. If the minimum after a full day of usage, from charged, is 42% from the 35h estimate, in your worn 70% capacity battery you've still got more than 15% spare between days, after accounting for years of degradation.

And then, after using it for 3 years, you might have to contemplate using the hated screwdriver and replacing the battery. And this is only if you've been no-life wrecking this controller for that long. It'll be much better from "regular" gaming usage.

I think this just comes down to undisciplined people, who can't manage to plug their stuff in routinely. I really can't see any other logical reason to feel this way.

And even then, for the people who can't do charging regularly, and don't want to worry about being tethered to a charger/their machines, a $10 power bank from a gas station fixes this issue. I charge my controller from a phone charger, already next to me, whenever it needs it. No one says that you have to explicitly plug it in to whatever you're playing on.

Personally, I think even giving the option of using disposable batteries is irresponsible on the designer's end. Everyone talks about rechargeables, but there's still going to be a percentage of people who just use disposables.

This does make more sense for the frame controllers, as when they die, there's no good/safe way you can still use them, and have them plugged in. even with a power bank the cables are, at best, ungainly, and at worst, an active safety hazard, as you swing them around you while not being able to see them. I've tried using index controllers wired to a power bank I was carrying, and it wasn't good.

Yes please link us to the bug tracker if it's public, or the app if not, so we can confirm the bug for them (which they'll obviously hate, but deserve).

If a single bug report about it got this reaction... Imagine.

So.. I feel ancient just mentioning this, but for literally 20 years now #bookz on undernet has been a solid source for books.

Use something like hexchat, get in the room, search your book, profit. Just got some stuff a few days ago.

Edit: actually, followed JC1's link in their comment, and it's a whole guide about how to get set up.

There are no "surround sound" headphones (at least not since razer hp1), it's a gimmick, any advertised as such are using a single driver per side and doing fake surround in software (driver).

You can use any headset and set up various virtual surround programs in Linux, you might want to look into details of that before buying a headset.

You can probably assume if the headset wants to use some windows software or drivers to "set up" the surround sound that it won't work on Linux the same way, but it is possible to do with other programs.

You want a physical KVM, like a JetKVM.

You can get software only ones, but these run as a program in the OS, so you can't access anything BIOS or troubleshoot if the OS doesn't load, as then the software KVM won't.

I own the TurboGrafx 16 version, it was one of my favorite games for it. That was my only console as a child, good times. There is a cutscene at the start, and that's all the lore the manual offers too: https://r.mprd.se/TurboGrafx-16/TG16-PCE/EXTRAS/Manuals/Bomberman%20%28U%29.pdf

Something along the lines of a inventor's daughter being kidnapped by an invention gone evil (black Bomberman), and you are the one who didn't go bad, trying to rescue her (which you do by the end).

I don't have the manual anymore, but it's findable online.

He used to frequent parties at a mutual friend's place, pretty much bimonthly the friend would have everyone over and we'd trash his garage. Movies one night, Xbox halo lan another, big magic game etc. I haven't seen him for over 20 years now.

He went by "Chocolate Mountain" then. Everyone called him that. Good times.

I'm poking people who know him to see if I can get something more concrete than "I think", but IIRC he might have passed. He's doing good, still posting to FB and stuff.

I love seeing this one pass by, everytime I can think, "hey I know that guy!"

I have to say, this situation has improved enough that I've had no problem using BT controller connection.

We're talking about games like Elden Ring, Enter the Gungeon, MGS:Snake Eater Delta.. and reaction time definitely matters for those games. One controller even came with a 2.4ghz 1000hz dongle, and it seems the new controller will probably have an option like that if the GabeGear has the hardware built into it: "Steam Controller's wireless adapter is built right into Steam Machine for direct pairing."

this isn't necessarily true. I haven't played in a while, but java servers using custom implementations like paper or bungeecord can use Geyser to allow Bedrock clients to connect to Java servers. There's some things that are wierd or don't work, as there's a bit of feature parity issues between versions, they're not the same game. But you can play together.

I used to play on a server with it and people would login with bedrock accounts (free with java purchase) so they could have an alt for dailies and storage.

I can only think of a couple.

Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates - Epic Rap Battles of History (Youtube)

Code Monkey - Jonathan Coulton (Youtube)

EDIT: One more:

The Gates - Davinci's Notebook (only Youtube link)

I don't care about getting a game (though I don't have either), but wanted to leave some gems:

Minishoot' adventures

Project silverfish

Escape from duckov

Enter the gungeon

Creeper world series

Nothing at all. If things go south on the install I'll have a clean slate. Really the only thing I have backed up are keys, everything else is nonessential.

you literally just need a bridge. here are instructions for debian.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1fprlsa/virtual_surround_sound_on_linux/

Pipewire spatializer. But it looks like you need a special wav file ("HRTF"?) for a specific headset, not sure where is best to source those.