Comment on Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA

Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Gonna go ahead and guess; buy it in EU, turn on your vpn, connect, setup, register. Keep your vpn turned on perpetually. Maybe you’ll be required to have a european bank when you make purchases as well.

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  • bier@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Or just get a steam deck, or another device you can install your own software on. This for me is a reason I never would get an iPhone. Although I don’t have a ton of apps from outside the playstore I do want the option. Maybe my next phone will just be a Linux phone.

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The only reason people get Nintendo Switch is for the exclusives.

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    • themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Cant you sideload on iPhone now after EU regulations? Or is it only 3rd party app stores?

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      • VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It is only third party app stores. Each .ipa has to be allowed by apple

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wouldnt you need a european account as well?
    I believe to have heard about regional accounts being a thing.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Some routers will let you configure a VPN onto a VLAN or SSID. Set that up and configure your Switch to use it and you’re golden.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    From the other comments, I am not sure if they understood my question; could I just run the VPN on any PC on the network and it works for the whole network, or does the service need to run on the device itself? Because I can’t do anything directly with my ISP managed router and my personally router is too old go support my gaming setup (it doesn’t have WiFi 6 or 5GHz and I do VR).

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No. Well, you could, but it would be super complicated. You’d need a wired connection from the Switch to your PC and know how to configure a network bridge (kind of like putting a phone into hotspot mode), and your PC would need to be up (not sleeping) for it to work at all. You could do the same with a Raspberry Pi and a WiFi dongle, but again, you’d need to know how to configure it.

      It would be much simpler to buy a decent router to put in front of your ISP router, or replace it altogether (you probably can, but I’d need to know more about your ISP to say for sure). I use a Mikrotik router without WiFi and a separate WiFi access point, and the Mikrotik router supports setting up a VPN. They’re not all that expensive (maybe $100), though they can be a bit daunting to configure because they have a million features. Basically, it takes all traffic from connected devices and tunnels it through the VPN, so that computers aren’t aware that it’s connected to a VPN.

      Basically, a VPN sends traffic over an encrypted channel somewhere else, kind of like a digital ethermet cable. Most applications aren’t aware of it at all, and the VPN connection is only available on that computer. The only way to share a VPN connection is to connect the device to a machine with the VPN configured and tell that computer to send all traffic from that connection to the VPN.

      I hope that makes sense, I’m happy to answer any questions.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I actually would know how to bridge the connection between the devices so that would be my choice, as it is the cheapest option.

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• Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  NetBird is your friend 😄

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