Can you elaborate what you mean with Nintendo switch sync? I have switch online so I have the cloud backups between my switch and switch 2, but there are some games like the Pokemon games that don’t support cloud backups
Comment on how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life?
cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
Normies don’t get it. Privacy means nothing to most normies. I tell them about things they would understand an appreciate:
I don’t need to pay for the following anymore because I have my personal version of Netflix, Spotify, Dropbox, Google photos, etc.
I can tell them about a home server also saving me from Onenote, Google Calendar, etc as well; but they tend not to understand this and say “but that’s free anyway”. In which case it becomes a more prolonged conversation of trying to explain why privacy and data ownership are important.
There’s also the hobby/interest/learning aspect of this. But even my wife sees what I do and says she doesn’t understand how I can stand troubleshooting server problems; because she gets hugely triggered if tech doesn’t immediately work as intended. Tinkering and troubleshooting tech is most people’s idea of hell.
aoude@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
I’ve shoved my Switch to the back of a cupboard somewhere and don’t use that hardware at all. I use Eden emulator to play Switch games on my Steam Deck and my Retroid Pocket 5, and also my PC (if my kids want their save game progress there). Syncthing is set up on my home server and all these devices. The save data gets synced across all devices. I’ve been loving it. I’ve ditched the shitty Nintendo hardware and always refused to pay for Switch online since it didn’t work for a bunch of games anyway. The emulated games get better performance with better screens and controllers on these devices, and all games sync reliably at no extra cost.
I’ve got Switch games on my phone as well (Into the Breach works great with touch controls alone), but I haven’t figured out synchronising save data from here since Android locked down app data folders.
aoude@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s alright, thanks
You may find syncthing-fork on fdroid to be useful. The nextcloud app was crippled with sync charges due to the play store but the fdroid variant doesn’t have such restrictions. The same may be true for syncthing-fork
sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah i think it’s an education thing as well. People tend to not understand how stuff works and if they did they would be much more „paranoid“
Nomad@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
I have long suspected that its a techies responsibility to take care of their immediate friends and family in regards to self hosting. SoiI usually offer that service for free to my extended family. I usually tell them they have to rely/trust someone, might as well be me and if it weren’t them I would charge customers X money for that service monthly. So it becomes a gift and something personal and they feel taken care of and when the dreaded “help me with my email” call comes you just pop open their account without trying all the password on that crusty sticky note and look into it. I especially love those “they claim they didn’t get that email” calls. Pop open the log and send the excerpt of their server accepting the email to the claimant and boom number one of all the standard excuses is done for. I once saved my mums job that way.