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The site should now be just called "Formerly Twitter"
give it the Prince treatment
The social media network formerly known as Twitter
Don't you be disrespecting Prince like that!
You mean the artist formally known as prince?
Even okay with X-Twitter
(It is ex-Twitter)
Roman Numeral 10
I don't think anything could possibly chide him more than simply forgetting and continuing to call it Twitter.
And nothing of value was lost
I remember it being convenient for getting screenshots off it to pc quickly, but I don't know if there's a better method of doing so. I rarely, if ever, use the share function to begin with.
You can directly connect to the Switch over a wifi network it creates. You can select up to 10 photos to share at a time. It'll create a one-time-use wifi network (the connection details are different every time) and generate a QR code so you can connect to it. After your phone is connected, it'll generate another QR code that'll direct you to a webpage (a local IP address, specifically) where you can browse and download the photos from.
Make sure to turn off data on your phone while you're trying to do this. Some phones use data as a fallback if the wifi network they're connected to isn't connected to the internet.
Yeah it's so cumbersome, especially if you forget data being on.
At least you can bookmark the second QR code because it's always the same IP address. So once you're connected you can just directly navigate to
192.168.0.1/index.htmland you're in.Honestly, it's easier for me to just double-tap the power button to open the camera and scan the QR code than to have to open my bookmarks.
And I don't mind that the SSID for the wifi changes every time. Again, it's simply faster to turn off data and scan the QR code than it is to force my phone to connect to a network that isn't connected to the internet.
Yeah, there's more convenient ways this could've been done, but it's not a *horrible* design.
Edit: fixed a typo ("eventually time" -> "every time")
You *have* to connect to the network in order to transfer anything, so what do you mean? I'm talking the second QR code that's simply a link to the IP address I linked. I can just open my browser (after being connected to the Switch's WiFi) and type a 1 to let it autofill to skip scanning it at all.
This is a newer function though, wasn't always available
It's been a function for at least a few years. And they didn't mention whether it had to be new or not.
This is something that Nintendo should have had a better fix for *years* ago. With my PS5, I can access my screenshots and video clips from the app and save them directly to my device. I can't believe that Nintendo hasn't managed to do something as simple as this, they're just so unwilling to make a modern product.
Nintendo has always treated online as an afterthought.
except when selling 30 year old game higher that it was and you can only play it online
And it is attached to a subscription service that rotates games on a whim.
Yea, last time I tired, you have to connect to its personal wifi hotspot and download them via the app. It’s so backwards!
Good news, they *have* had a better fix for several years now. About a month after the PS5 came out, so what you described was possibly an actual factor in it.
"Better" is such a strong word. It's a kludge where you have to connect your phone and switch to a virtual wifi and then you can send up to ten photos at a snail's pace. I kept using twitter because it's such an annoying process.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but on PS5 you'll need to send individual images to a friend, to be able to download them from your chat session on the mobile app. Or on Xbox, you'll need to pay for OneDrive or it'll be removed after 90 days. Both more annoying from my perspective.
If you have a hacked Switch you can use mtp-server or ftpd. I like the MTP approach, it works just like DeckyMTP on the Steam Deck.
Classic Nintendo, making simple things like copying screenshots so complicated hacking your switch is a reasonable thing to do....
I do think there should be more easy official wireless options, but it isn't actually difficult to transfer your screenshots & video's over to a PC. All you need to do is put your microSD card in an SD card adapter, and plug it into a PC. Although that worked better back in 2017 when it released; most computers don't have SD card slots anymore.
They also make obtaining games for a reasonable price impossible, so hacking the switch is kinda necessary. And they make playing games with reasonable frame rates impossible, so emulating the Switch on a powerful PC is reasonable.
Do you know if 1. Having switch is without hardware modification of any kind? And 2. Can i play my "downloaded" copies of owned games on modified switch?
I used the Facebook posting feature back in 2018 before I had an SD card because I was running out of space. I regret it now though because it severely compressed the video & audio and entirely wiped the date/time metadata. Even though I don't recommend it, I feel that Facebook would be a better option than Twitter, because you can private posts.
Is that because it costs money now?
I lose track of all the Elon madness.
The API is apparently obscenely expensive to use
How much could a tweet cost? $10?
nice job elon
Masterful gambit sir
Maybe they delete enough code to be able to give us a third “theme”.
No can do. All the removed code is replaced with stability
I don't want stability. I want gaping holes where I can put more homebrew.
Can't they at least update the localisation files too?
Cool.
OP's username does not check out, these are actually Cool news
I believe that Zero Cool is a character in the movie *Hackers*, though I haven't seen it.
*googles*
Yup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)
Apparently it's the main character.
That was my first thought and the second one was "dang I'm old".
That movie will be 30 next year. I’m old with you buddy.
*coughs up dust*
I'll join this.
I commented on a motorcycle thread a few days ago where the poster said "bike from 1982, over forty years old" (or something to that effect) where I had to do the math and realize... Shit... That was forty years ago.
Someone recently told me they bought a "vintage truck". I asked them what year the truck was made, expecting something from the 60's or so....but apparently 1985 is vintage now. 😟
🤜🤛
Yeah, I was an adult when that movie came out so...
Sounds like you need to watch one of the best technology documentaries of all time.
It's up in the pool. On the roof
They're trashing our rights! TRASHING!
Rare based move from Nintendo.
No point in expending resources to support a dying social media platform people barely had reason to use from a game console when it was popular.
Yeah because Twitter is very popular in Japan.
What the fuck u talking about?
Japan has 1/3 the population vs the US so that means that nearly every man, woman, and child has Twitter in Japan vs 30% of US people.
that is why I mean it is very popular in Japan. it is in top 3 right? the highest in Asia?
This is wild to me.
It's been nearly a year and we're still calling it "X, formerly Twitter". XD
Speak for yourself lol, I don't know any morons calling it anything BUT Twitter
Musk probably thought calling it "X" made it sound edgy and cool. I bet it really annoys him every time it's called "the social media platform formerly known as Twitter."
Apparently he has been obsessed with the letter since before the PayPal days. He owned X.com before joining PayPal. It was even named X for a little bit. Before it went public the name was changed to PayPal. Because of course X is a terrible name for brand recognition and marketing. I think part of this just fuck you to all the guys who started PayPal
Oh and remember the only real thing Musk brought to PayPal. Was his daddy's money.
of course he's obsessed with it. it's pretty close to the swastika as far as letters go.
"The artist formerly known as Twitter"
Good.
Was anyone tweeting from the switch in the first place?
This would be great if Nintendo was genuinely concerned about encouraging the usage of a hostile platform. Sadly odds are that it cares about its brand way more than "those things" playing their games.
I don't think so. Even with the abusive costs the price would be rather small for Nintendo, in comparison with the advertisement of its games in Twitter. I think that it's mostly a "eeeeew, Nintendo has X integration? Nintendo must be fascist."
Either way it's a positive.
More like "Joanne got a promotion for integrating X!", followed by "Mike got a promotion by saving the company 2M/year!"
I think that it's more like "Mike got a promotion *for saving our brand from unnecessary damage". The whole thing stinks "muh brand" from a distance for me.
If you are absolutely locked in to someone else's service, then there really isn't anything you can do if they do something object able, better to rip off the Band-Aid now than later.
X Formerly Known As Twitter isn't functionally irreplaceable, and I do hope the higher up at Nintendo will realize the only way that the only way to make sure they have full control of their publishing platform is by owning it and start a Misskey instance or something.
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Twitter is not primarily nazis
Source?
What? What type of integration? I just wanna watch Plex and Netflix on there.
Posting photos and videos from the Switch directly onto Twitter.
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Facebook launched only one year before the Xbox 360 did it wasn’t the boomer network back then.
I don't understand the mindset in this thread. *Functionality* is neutral. Withdrawal of it is not a good thing - people should be able to comprehend that even if their vision is partially blocked by their hate boner for X/Musk.
If you assume: 1. X is a bad thing (either because it promotes bad ideas, or because it crowds out better platforms, or some other reason)
2. The more users and functionality X has, the more powerful it will be.
Then removing functionality from X is a good thing.
Is it neutral? Nintendo integrating with X both advertises X and Nintendo
Everything has a cost. I would have cheered them removing twitter from a game console before it was ruined. Nobody really needs that. And the resources can go to something that supports the core functionality of the device.
I see what you're saying. As an isolated event it's pretty meh. Maybe it sucks for the two people who used it.
In a sense, Musk was betting that Twitter's API was undermonitized, and by raising the price, he'd make more money than he'd lose in people leaving the platform. He bet Twitter's relevance against some money. Yeah, not a lot of people used it on Switch, but every rejection of his bet, that Twitter isn't worth the price, hurts Musk's bottom line. And it's kinda on him; Nintendo isn't defying him, he was just wrong.
Brand integration definitely is not neutral. Functionality to make it smooth and easy interact with nazi-central lends Nintendo's credibility to that platform. It's not a neutral feature.
Remember that the next time a service you like removes a function you use due to maintainer bias or pressure from a particular audience.
Yeah, I will. These decisions don't just come out of nowhere, and I think its always a good idea to try to understand why things happen. By understanding the reasons for things, the world is less likely to feel arbitrarily hostile and unfair - and I can make better informed choices for my own life.
Put it this way: If you took a thread talking about some tech from a joke community, and a thread about the same topic from a generic technology community, you won't be able to tell them apart. People will bring the same energy and mindset to both. Jokes and "lol get rekt company I hate" will be pushed to the top, because they totally contribute to the discussion, while basic observations like "removing functionality is bad" will be pushed down. 👍
I'm aware of that, but it's worth highlighting the double standard anyway.
*strokes hate boner while blocking tregetour. Mmmm, yea, you like it like that dontcha.