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Re: The Nintendo Switch Switch

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Post by ollien »

At my college, we have an airgapped network for security classes, and when assignments are due, we often run out of ethernet cables. I had just mentioned I would bring a switch with me the next day and people were confused why I'd be goofing off with a Switch so close to the deadline.

Now we can avoid that kind of confusion! :)

Re: The Nintendo Switch Switch

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Post by core-questions »

Cute project! Sometimes it's nice to see a simple hack that elucidates perfectly just how amazing it is to actually be able to run our own software on a variety of devices. With Linux support, these devices will be useful for decades to do random things.

Re: The Nintendo Switch Switch

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Post by bitcynth »

core-questions wrote: post #3

Cute project! Sometimes it's nice to see a simple hack that elucidates perfectly just how amazing it is to actually be able to run our own software on a variety of devices. With Linux support, these devices will be useful for decades to do random things.

thank you :) I have other evil network related ideas for this in the near future :p

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Post by mercora »

i am a bit disappointed that what has been done is basically installing linux and setting up a bridge using usb ethernet dongles. not what i was expecting. its still somewhat amusing though.

Re: The Nintendo Switch Switch

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Post by bitcynth »

mercora wrote: post #7

i am a bit disappointed that what has been done is basically installing linux and setting up a bridge using usb ethernet dongles. not what i was expecting. its still somewhat amusing though.

yeah, tbh, I wanted to do it with the it still functioning as a game console. However I realized that it would be way too difficult for me and would never get done :/

Re: The Nintendo Switch Switch

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Post by thaumasiotes »

ollien wrote: post #2

At my college, we have an airgapped network for security classes, and when assignments are due, we often run out of ethernet cables. I had just mentioned I would bring a switch with me the next day and people were confused why I'd be goofing off with a Switch so close to the deadline. Now we can avoid that kind of confusion! :)

> when assignments are due, we often run out of ethernet cables. I had just mentioned I would bring a switch with me the next day

As I understand it, a switch will solve a shortage of ethernet ports, but will make the cable problem worse by requiring one extra cable. What's the purpose of the switch here?

Re: The Nintendo Switch Switch

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Post by Enginerrrd »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #9
ollien wrote: post #2

At my college, we have an airgapped network for security classes, and when assignments are due, we often run out of ethernet cables. I had just mentioned I would bring a switch with me the next day and people were confused why I'd be goofing off with a Switch so close to the deadline. Now we can avoid that kind of confusion! :)

> when assignments are due, we often run out of ethernet cables. I had just mentioned I would bring a switch with me the next day As I understand it, a switch will solve a shortage of ethernet ports, but will make the cable problem worse by requiring one extra cable. What's the purpose of the switch here?

shorter total cable length and a less cluttered environment?
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