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roserose56, do gaming w After just 12 days, Nintendo is already nuking Switch 2 console accounts for players caught using Mig Flash
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After 12 days, people still buy the Nintendo Switch 2, when a month earlier the price was to high for them.

thatradomguy, do gaming w After just 12 days, Nintendo is already nuking Switch 2 console accounts for players caught using Mig Flash

They were explicitly told this would happen and still tried… ffs

Wispy2891, do gaming w After just 12 days, Nintendo is already nuking Switch 2 console accounts for players caught using Mig Flash
@Wispy2891@lemmy.world avatar

Idea:

  1. Get a switch 2 from Amazon
  2. Get it banned from Nintendo
  3. Return it to Amazon
  4. Let Nintendo and Amazon deal with the pissed customer that gets it later
whyalone,

Can you return it if is dead? Or displaying on screen something like, software was modified, warranty void,?

Wispy2891,
@Wispy2891@lemmy.world avatar

It gives error only when you try to login, the inspector would need to create an account and login. Possible but they barely do “it turns on, it works, can be resold”, it takes too much time, Amazon many times just disposes perfectly fine stuff just because they don’t want to pay $5 for someone to check it

A_Random_Idiot, (edited )

I seriously doubt Amazon has improved its systems since that Motorcycle guy bought a 6 thousand dollar camera and got a box of rocks…twice.

edit

Correctino, 6 thousand dollar camera

Korhaka,

For such a short timeframe you can return it because you just don’t want it anymore

Anomalocaris,

wait, they brick the switch itself?? I thought they banned the account or something

Zanathos,

I had this pop up on my feed this morning. They are doing the same thing they did on hacked Switch 1 consoles and basically revoking their certificate, so it can’t connect to Nintendo servers any longer. youtu.be/ExgYTA18_vo

Noodle07, do gaming w After just 12 days, Nintendo is already nuking Switch 2 console accounts for players caught using Mig Flash

The only game series I still play from Nintendo are all on steam now I feel so smug with my steam deck :3

grrgyle, do gaming w After just 12 days, Nintendo is already nuking Switch 2 console accounts for players caught using Mig Flash

Nintendo gonna Nintend

Nasan,

Road to hell is paved with good Nintentions

Numenor, do gaming w After just 12 days, Nintendo is already nuking Switch 2 console accounts for players caught using Mig Flash

the MIG Flash (formerly MIG-Switch) is a specialized, reprogrammable cartridge that’s designed to mimic a real Nintendo Switch cartridge, but allows you to store your own game ROMs or backups on its microSD card. This essentially enables you to hold multiple game copies on a single cartridge, letting you conveniently switch between them with the help of a button.

A_Random_Idiot,

Which is ideal for someone who is constantly on the go/traveling/etc and don’t want to risk losing all their carts. Just dump’m, put them on one flash cart, and have all your games in one thing you never have to take out of your console.

You know, like the kinda of people the switch is geared towards

Powderhorn, do gaming w ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS, with more stable framerates and quicker sleep resume times
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I love the smell of irony in the early afternoon.

dan1101, do gaming w ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS, with more stable framerates and quicker sleep resume times
@dan1101@lemmy.world avatar

That’s awesome. I’m almost ready to switch to Linux, but I hop around to many different games and not all run on Linux.

symbioticremnant,

Don’t look back. Those games are dead to you now

BombOmOm,
@BombOmOm@lemmy.world avatar

Unironically, yes. Keep the kernel-level anti-cheat shit off my computer.

FalschgeldFurkan,

^this

It’s mostly kernel level AC and super ancient stuff that doesn’t run. I play the former on console (if any), and the latter can be emulated

BombOmOm,
@BombOmOm@lemmy.world avatar

GOG is doing wonders for the later as well. Just recently enjoyed a run of Breath of Fire IV. :)

dreadbeef,

i stopped dual booting many many years ago with destiny 2. I killed it. Never looked back thank goodness and never got tempted again

Know_not_Scotty_does,

The only one I have run into that doesn’t work is pubg. What are you trying to run?

iAmTheTot,

This was a genuine concern to me before my switch. I game a lot and this was a main thing keeping me back.

I eventually decided, well I’ll at least dual boot and can just switch to Windows if I want to play a game there.

But that kinda turned out to be a pain in the ass. Things like Bluetooth devices would need to be switched each time (I know there are ways around this, don’t @ me), and more.

So… I just stopped using Windows to avoid that annoyance. And it turns out I don’t miss the games I could only play on Windows that much, because I haven’t booted into Windows in months. I’m fact I’m not really sure why I still have the partition.

Tl:dr just do it.

warmaster,

You shouldn’t be playing any game that requires kernel level access to your PC.

Do you trust every employee at EA, Riot, Activision with your credit card details, social security number, bank accounts, home address, etc.?

Because that’s what kernel level access grants them, and more.

On top of that, a hacker could potentially exploit it to gain access too.

axx,

It’s not a theoretical situation :)

bleepingcomputer.com/…/hackers-abuse-genshin-impa…

vikingtons, do gaming w ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS, with more stable framerates and quicker sleep resume times
@vikingtons@lemmy.world avatar

I think maybe take a look at the performance and power seen during the video, things don’t seem to line up correctly.

That said, Linux is generally slightly more performant in handheld devices and I think that will continue to hold true despite Microsoft’s recent opts.

thingsiplay, do gaming w ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS, with more stable framerates and quicker sleep resume times

Slap the name Xbox on it, and call it a day. The Microsoft strategy “everything is a Xbox”.

g0nz0li0,

Feels like this is so when they announce that there won’t be a successor to the Xbox Series X/S they can say “Xbox is t going away, it’s evolving, everything is an Xbox now etc”

ROG Xbox Ally is a good example of how superficial this promise it.

artyom,

Honestly everyone keeps saying it’s not an XBOX but I think they’re just missing that the XBOX as they know it is dead and it has just transitioned to “Microsoft gaming”.

Kirk, do gaming w ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS, with more stable framerates and quicker sleep resume times

I’ve been trying out Bazzite with an Nvidia GPU and performance is slightly better but the overall experience is significantly improved over windows.

falinter,
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I’ve been thinking of switching my framework 13 laptop over to bazzite as a toe dip into the Linux world (other than steam deck) if it’s not too bad I might try dual booting my big desktop gaming PC

Kirk,

Honestly, I like Bazzite because it’s very controller and gaming friendly and you won’t be disappointed with it. That said, for a daily driver workstation computer you might want to try Fedora Kinoite which is very similar but focused towards desktop use.

Also it doesn’t hurt to try both as I said they’re very similar! Would love to hear a follow up on your experience.

Goodeye8,

One caveat. If you have racing wheels or HOTAS you should check if Bazzite supports them. I ran into that issue with my Thrustmaster T300 where the right kernel module isn’t packaged with Bazzite and adding the module to Bazzite… Well, let’s just say it’s easier to reinstall a different OS than it is to add a custom kernel module to Bazzite.

Kirk,
Goodeye8,

I know. I found that issue when I was looking into how to get my T300 to work and it’s because of that issue that I’m raising the awareness because that issue has been open for over a year and the last maintainer activity there was months ago.

I get that they’re doing it out of their free time and they probably have more important things to do so I’m not faulting them for not being faster with it, but from the end user perspective you’re just going to fiddle your thumbs until something gets done because doing it yourself has the immutable OS getting in the way and it also defeats the purpose of having an immutable OS.

Meanwhile getting the wheel to work on Nobara went, relatively speaking, so smoothly I don’t even remember what I did to get it working.

chunkystyles,

Instead of Kinoite, I’d suggest either Bluefin or Aurora. They’re made by the same group as Bazzite.

zergtoshi,

The Nvidia GPU in my laptop was the reason to install Bazzite; haven’t looked back since.

sheogorath,

Is the performance slightly better compared to windows or earlier versions of Bazzite?

Kirk,

Compared to Windows. To be clear I’m just basing that on vibes, and I haven’t done any 1:1 testing, but it’s absolutely not any worse than Windows with everything I’ve tried. But also, even if it was slightly worse, the benefit of almost never needing a mouse/keyboard still would make it worth it.

gegil, do gaming w ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS, with more stable framerates and quicker sleep resume times

Are there any things in which windows is still better than linux?

shyguyblue,

Mine was an expert at letting me know I still haven’t signed in to one drive. was

Little8Lost,
@Little8Lost@lemmy.world avatar

Its getting better at breaking

socsa,
@socsa@piefed.social avatar

UEFI installs on cutting edge hardware are sometimes slightly smoother?

M1ch431,
@M1ch431@slrpnk.net avatar

Installing rootkits on your computer i.e. kernel-level anti-cheat

Dnb,

It’s bad test.

Watch the video the tdp, clock speeds for cpu and gpu are much higher on Linux which accounts for the differences

flamingos,

ABI stability?

AliasVortex,

Market share

Katana314,

It’s the first test bed for every developer, which means something like a headset utility is more reliably going to work on Windows. But it’s impressive even that margin is falling.

Imagine seeing Nvidia drop Shadowplay features to push their own beta app improvements, while the Linux imitator for Shadowplay still works simply and fine, and doesn’t even drop for “DRM detected” issues.

Or trying to install/update Epic/Ubisoft games needing to go through another terrible UI upgrade while Heroic and Lutris still look the same.

A year ago, I tried Linux and felt frustrated about some minor UI inconsistencies and fiddling. Recently, I tried again, and it still had stuff to work through, but I was patient for it because now I’m dealing with all that same shit on Windows.

Oh yeah, though to hotkey audio switching I ended up writing my own bash script which was clunky. Curious if anyone better than myself might take charge there.

iAmTheTot, do gaming w ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS, with more stable framerates and quicker sleep resume times

Ah, but then how will I use Microsoft Teams?

BombOmOm,
@BombOmOm@lemmy.world avatar

Good news, you can download and run Microsoft Teams in Linux. I have no clue why you would want to do this, but you can!

artyom,

Unfortunately it’s the primary communication method for my work. I just use it in the browser.

Podo_Danderfluff,

Portal for Microsoft Teams works surprisingly well. Its basically a web wrapper, but its very convenient.

artyom,

How is it convenient? Why would I use that instead of just my browser or a PWA?

jjjalljs,

I’ve recently started to have to use Teams at work and wow it’s awful. In subtle and overt ways.

rebelsimile,

my favorite least favorite thing about teams is anything that happens when you right click anywhere on anything.

peetabix,

What happens?

Naz,

I know someone who was working on the Teams codebase. Even they don’t like using Teams (it wouldn’t open properly on Ubuntu for some reason).

Creat,

Teams actually works just fine. I’m my case installed from the AUR using the electron already present anyways. Zero issues. More specifically zero additional issues compared to Windows.

Qkall,
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I’ve taken calls on my pinephone and postmarketos phones (pixel 3a / oneplus 6). Twas fine… actually i have used it to make a clear calls in a pinch.

(pls donate to pmos)

anon5621, (edited )
@anon5621@lemmy.ml avatar

Better let live it at least at flatpak container to give it less permission cause 0 trust to this app

g0nz0li0,

Oop, went thread!

lichtmetzger,

There’s an unofficial client. It works really well. I mean, as well as this piece of shit software generally works.

github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux

AnUnusualRelic,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

And more importantly, where’s the IA?

MrSoup, do gaming w ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS, with more stable framerates and quicker sleep resume times

Year of the Linux… xbox?

jinwk00,

LinuXbox?

prole, do gaming w ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS, with more stable framerates and quicker sleep resume times

Everyone who’s ever used a Steam Deck or gamed on Linux in general are like “yeah no shit”

Broadfern,
@Broadfern@lemmy.world avatar

All positive publicity is good, the more people outside our little niche bubble are exposed to it the better.

Killing Windows influence in gaming wherever possible is an improvement.

zergtoshi,

Me and my Steam Deck approve.

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