@Skye_twitch Harris was the Attorney General of California, an elected position, as well as being the VP of the Biden administration for the last four years. She's absolutely qualified for this specific job. Biden and her have passed significant legislation (Inflation Reduction Act), even with a totally gridlocked congress.

Trump by contrast, in addition to having very limited experience in politics, was totally ineffective his first 4 years from 2016-2020. He didn't understand "the system" that he talked so much about fixing. His new slogan is "Make America Great Again"... again. He already said he'd make it great and was unsuccessful.

It's hard not be pessimistic about our next four years, knowing that our best case scenario is that he will continue to divide us. For a very quick example, Harris conceded the next day that she lost, and Trump is still denying he lost 2020. That is not presidential.

Pinning this topic, every time I use a USB keyboard on the Switch it works better than expected, and I feel it's still not widely known.

I'm not saying if you voted for Donald Trump (or sat this election out) that you're automatically a bad person, but this is a depressing realization for where our country's head is at. I thought we were done with him in 2020.

Don't forget January 6th attack on the Capitol, or the Fake electors plot either. And so far it doesn't even seem like he's losing the popular vote.

Hopefully he'll govern for ALL Americans, and stop talking about "the enemy from within". It's already dangerous rhetoric, it doesn't have to become dangerous action.

I would like to fix this, although Switch traffic really does look like a botnet. (Same user agent, no cursor events, same screen sizes, all different IPs).

Of course though there's still ways that Cloudflare should and could get around this.

Another petition is a good idea. Also, if there are sites that have this issue, please contact the owners of them, so they are aware of the problem.

If you open the full reply mode (upper right), then you can drag an image from your photos gallery into it.

It begins. Edited main post: tomorrow -> today

If you live in the United States, today (November 5th) is election day! For info on your local voting locations, times, and how to vote, please visit https://vote.gov

If you've never voted in person before, it's actually very easy. All the people running the polls are both politically neutral, and dedicated to respect/privacy for carrying out the electoral process.

Once you go to your polling location, there will be a line that you get in. (Usually it's not too long, and around a 10 minute wait). When you get to the front, you give the poll workers your info, they cross your name off a list, and hand you a ballot. Then you take the ballot to a privacy booth, circle in your candidates, and drop it off in the ballot box.

Here's a great video from Hank Green that goes into detail about why voting is important: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWpdkmKMjeA

If you live in one of the following states, they offer same day registration, and you can just show up:

California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maine (online only), Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Just a reminder!

Had to restart and it didn't come back online, it's back up now

The most compelling argument I could make for the browser needing to be made more accessible is the DNS's usage numbers (and by extension, those petition signature counts). The Switch, while not a general computing device, clearly has access to several web technologies and web services (like Youtube or Hulu), and a large enough number of end-users clearly want to be able to do more with it.

This could make it similar to the "alternative App Stores" argument, such as the new EU legislation that made Apple allow third party app sources: https://support.apple.com/en-us/118110 Although I also need to point out that alternative app stores do exist on the Switch, via homebrew. I think the relevant piece though, is that by preventing web apps and non-eShop web services, users are required to go through the eShop, which Nintendo has a direct financial incentive to funnel users through.

I would imagine Nintendo's argument would be that don't have any obligation to provide the additional development work (or fund it) to make the browser easier to use, and to keep it more up to date with latest web technologies, etc. And even if there's a sizable interested user base, maybe they have data from their past consoles that demonstrate the usage and interest doesn't translate enough into sales. If a third-party service wants to target Switch users, they can do so through the eShop, which is better for platform security reasons too. And since the Switch is a dedicated gaming device, there's no obligation to expose any of its internals any further than necessary.

For a specific example, AO3 is one of the popular websites accessed via the Switch browser. But they could likely provide a better user experience by making a dedicated Switch app and releasing it via the eShop. Technically, even a company like Mozilla could try and get a lightweight browser on the official Switch eShop as well, and although they might reject that kind of app, I don't think it's been attempted yet.

The time limit seems like it'd be a gray area though– like the fact that they haven't gone even further out of their way to limit it more, or even explicitly block certain DNS addresses from being entered, that could demonstrate that they aren't taking active steps to completely disable usage of the browser. For example, even if the letter of the law required them to allow accessing the browser, technically they are complying with that.

PB&J

It was indeed 700! I've updated it to 50 now per Raven's above suggestions.

Since this post, we’ve released CaptiveDNS which should be a bit easier for GUI hosting: https://browsedns.net/topic/2072/release-captivedns-access-the-browser-on-the-switch-locally-self-host-instructions

I’ll update the original post soon to go over this method as well

waltuh

@Ava-Lee Please share any other information with moderation staff as you receive it. Closing this thread for now.

Smash ultimate is great, but for me it’s gotta be Breath of the Wild. Honorable mention: Hollow Knight

That’s really interesting! I’m surprised there’s an eshop app that’s able to access youtube.com domains. Or that there’s a timeout too.

Pokemon Red for GB Color ️

Yep, unfortunately drafts won’t work on Switch because each new session wipes cookies. It’s on the list of future updates.

PB&J for sure

For the VNC client, https://novnc.com/ might work well on the Switch browser, it's come up before in some other topics.

But yeah, something like google cloud console sounds right, this guide makes it seem not-so-bad: https://medium.com/@piyushraj246800/your-guide-to-vnc-server-on-gcp-ed8255c81b43