Make enough of them that scalping isn’t profitable.

MS is already near the bottom for clean water. Surprisingly, KY is near the top. But I expect that’ll change.

You first.

I don’t need it to play Smash with friends on the couch.

Really I shouldn’t need the subscription for GC ports either. What’s wrong with making them individual purchases like on the 3DS? (Answer: that’s not monthly recurring revenue.)

Of course not. Political activists are first. Unions have already been targeted too. We’re already on the ethnic targeting. Next up is everyone, and who will speak out for us?

That’s true. I’m more concerned about the seven months’ worth of growth that was just wiped out in less than a week. And it’ll continue dropping this week.

I am using my Switch just fine without an online subscription. I guess Nintendo thinks I am using it wrong.

That would be worse, because then it would send and receive traffic for multiple vlans.

Unless your switch uses that to refer to link aggregation instead of vlan trunking. Network terminology like that can mean different things to different vendors.

Yeah let me just do some AES in my head real quick

Yes, actually.

One of the PCs can spoof the MAC of the other and receive its Ethernet frames.

They are changing that: https://www.marketplace.org/2024/10/29/new-york-stock-exchange-electronic-round-the-clock-trading-platforms/

Like forever, not just because they’re rushing this out the door? There won’t be any Switch 2 carts of cross-gen games?

I need a fucking online subscription to buy a controller???

If they’re on your device, you’ve already lost. To protect against that, you’d have to keep an offline device, either physical or digital. Digital encrypted, physical in a made-up language and script that only you know.

Digital with strong encryption, and protect the device so that it can’t be copied while unlocked. You’re probably not so important that they’d target you.

It’s called physical-to-virtual, or p2v. Proxmox uses qemu under the hood, so you should be able to start from their docs to create the VM: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Advanced_Migration_Techniques_to_Proxmox_VE

Modern browsers do, at least on desktop. I know Firefox does.

It is definitely not open-source. They created their own license: https://github.com/antiwork/gumroad?tab=License-1-ov-file

And the tl;dr on the “suspicious timing” is that the owner seems to have gotten rid of support staff and replaced them with an AI chatbot so that he can go “work” for DOGE. Yes, really.

He probably doesn’t know he can. Don’t give him the idea.