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Right to Repair
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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.
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I think this is great, even if Nintendo invents some proprietary way to charge the fuck out of it. Step in the right direction.
Howeverrrr... for something like the Switch(2) I see access to games a more long term issue. Switch 1 had physical cards to put in, but even then you got updates of course online. Switch 2 seems to try and get users to download complete games.
Are these servers still running in 10 years or longer. Otherwise renewing the battery on your old Switch 2 may not even be useful if there is no way to play the games anymore.
Not invalidating anything you just said, but the switch 2 heavily encourages you to use a Micro SD Express Card to store your downloaded games.
I wonder if I can use DD to make backups...
I think you can just copy the files. It isn't a proprietary filesystem like the Xbox, it's just exFAT. If you have a spare card, try copying the files over and see if it still works.
Big if true