“Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong”

OP doesn’t say how old their kids are. Could be teens with plenty of aptitude, but if they’re younger…the switch may be the better option.

As for emulation, I was more just was saying it’s possible. For single player games it’s fine, if done legally.

Yes this is true. I’ll edit my original post.

There is no “TV version”. The switch docks to a docking station to make it output to a TV. You just need a docking station and controllers to make a single Switch into a shared screen experience in the living room. Anyone’s Switch can use the dock.

Physical games are sharable, but only one device can use that game at a time, because they’re physical cartridges.

Personally, I’d go with a Steam Deck over a Switch, unless your family specifically is looking to play Switch games that are exclusive to it (which technically with emulation the Steam Deck can also play, but that’s not legal unless you own a switch and the game). The nice thing about Steam games is that Steam’s Families feature lets you share the entire game library digitally to 5 family members, so unless they want to play the same game at once, you only buy games once and they can all play them. There are also some games that let you own one copy and let multiple people play multiplayer at once on it, too.

Plus, games on Steam are cheaper than Switch games and the Steam Deck is only a bit more money upfront than a Switch is, especially on sale, which I expect it to be on sale for Black Friday coming up.

Finally, Steam games also can be played on a PC. Any PC. The Steam Deck is just an easy to use, skinned UI PC. As such, when the Steam Deck becomes obsolete, you don’t have a bunch of games that are now locked to an obsolete platform. There are PC games that are decades old that still play on PCs today (although sometimes a bit of fiddling is required for REALLY old ones).

Edit:

FYI the regular switch and OLED can dock. The switch lite cannot.

Look…it’s a shit mouse, but all you had to do is press on the right-front corner for right click after you configured it to do so.

I hated the thing and would never get one again, but if you’re going to criticize it, at least point out things that are actually a problem.

I had a first gen Magic Mouse and you could definitely add right click to it.

And they still put the port on the bottom where you can’t charge and use it at the same time. Garbage.

If there providing IPv6 to you, port forwarding shouldn’t be necessary most of the time for online gaming.

Are they allowing UPnP upstream?

If you’re getting a /64 from your ISP via DHCPv6, you likely need to send a prefix hint. I’d guess /60. Then you’ll have multiple /64s to work with on your inside interfaces.

Who is the ISP?

Want to know what I used to pirate, but don’t anymore? Video games. Steam makes tons of money off of me and everybody else and has reasonable DRM with an easy to use store.

Piracy is a delivery problem. Make content easier to get for reasonable prices and you’ll make money. Don’t do that? OK. Piracy it is.

If purchasing isn’t ownership, piracy isn’t stealing.

They’re in the UK. They don’t have our stupid healthcare system.

Most people have the option of plugging in where they live and/or work. The only argument would be for apartment complexes. Townhouses, single family homes, etc. are easy to switch to electric.

Or you could just get a Plug-in Hybrid, if that’s a concern.

If the company is able to scale this technology large enough for consumer vehicles while keeping prices down, it could easily double the range of the farthest-driving EVs on the road today.

That’s a big IF. TL;DR: They haven’t developed a means of making this scalable and able to be mass manufactured. Until they do, this is another “revolutionary” battery tech that may or may not actually be used due to cost of production. Most likely in the “not” category.

If you want to make EVs more popular, make them with Sodium-Ion batteries that are cheaper than ICE vehicles. They’ll sell better as a result.

Hardly anybody needs an EV with more than 200 miles of range if they’re plugging in each night. Most people’s commute is round-trip sub-50 miles. “Range anxiety” is 95%+ of the time a “problem” that stupid people have for their theoretical future that never actually happens. Most people are impractical idiots.

This is like reading my uneducated Republican mother’s ramblings on Facebook. Completely incoherent and gave me a brain aneurysm.

Same reason people get their WiFi from their ISP Modem+Router combo, even though it’s stupid to do so: People often confuse initial convenience for good.

Do you have a Raspberry Pi, Mini PC, or media center PC that you already have running? Home Assistant sells a ready-made Home Assistant box (Home Assistant Green) if you don’t. It has HASS pre-installed ready to go.

Unfortunately, you’re very right. I try to do my part in convincing people to choose otherwise, though.

If you want a smart home/devices, only opt for locally controlled, non-cloud, open source, and self hosted options. Home Assistant is great for home automation.

My mini splits used to be controlled by an Alexa dongle with no other choice from the manufacturer. After some research, I discovered that there was an ESPHome module for controlling them with about $8 worth of stuff. It’s more responsive, reliable, will never stop working because some company decided it’s no longer worth their time, and has more elaborate controls than anything the manufacturer provided. And I can control three mini splits for half of the cost of one “cloud dongle” from the manufacturer.

The best way to combat enshittification is voting with your wallet. Support projects by people who produce open source solutions. Donate the money you would have spent on the “turnkey cloud” option to help fund the open source project through donations. Until we stop giving these companies money, they’re not going to stop screwing us.