Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter (comicbook.com)
from ZeroCool@vger.social to technology@lemmy.world on 09 May 2024 21:45
https://vger.social/post/1134953

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kamenlady@lemmy.world on 09 May 2024 21:59 next collapse

OP’s username does not check out, these are actually Cool news

tal@lemmy.today on 09 May 2024 22:07 collapse

I believe that Zero Cool is a character in the movie Hackers, though I haven’t seen it.

googles

Yup.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)

Cast

  • Jonny Lee Miller as Dade Murphy / “Zero Cool” / “Crash Override”

Apparently it’s the main character.

RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world on 09 May 2024 22:15 next collapse

That was my first thought and the second one was “dang I’m old”.

smokin_shinobi@lemmy.world on 09 May 2024 22:27 collapse

That movie will be 30 next year. I’m old with you buddy.

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 May 2024 22:29 next collapse

coughs up dust

RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world on 09 May 2024 22:30 next collapse

🤜🤛

clif@lemmy.world on 09 May 2024 22:38 next collapse

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.

Masamune@lemmy.world on 09 May 2024 23:20 collapse

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. 😟

TimeSquirrel@kbin.social on 10 May 2024 00:07 collapse

I will refuse to call most cars made in the 80s or later "vintage" even though that's the technically correct word. "Garbage", yes. It's just not the same when it's just a shitbox full of dry-rotting composites and plastics. Older cars were something you wanted to keep around. Modern "old" cars are something you're embarrassed to be driving around in.

tal@lemmy.today on 10 May 2024 00:27 collapse

I will refuse to call most cars made in the 80s or later “vintage” even though that’s the technically correct word.

It was easier to reach the 1980s than most for TimeSquirrel.

buddascrayon@lemmy.world on 10 May 2024 10:58 collapse
just_another_person@lemmy.world on 09 May 2024 23:08 collapse

Sounds like you need to watch one of the best technology documentaries of all time.

SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world on 09 May 2024 23:20 collapse

It’s up in the pool. On the roof

GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world on 09 May 2024 23:35 collapse

They’re trashing our rights! TRASHING!

Kachilde@lemmy.world on 09 May 2024 22:01 next collapse

And nothing of value was lost

MagnyusG@lemmy.world on 09 May 2024 22:45 collapse

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.

Chozo@fedia.io on 09 May 2024 22:54 next collapse

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.

iAmTheTot@kbin.social on 09 May 2024 22:55 next collapse

Nintendo has always treated online as an afterthought.

Vilian@lemmy.ca on 09 May 2024 23:51 collapse

except when selling 30 year old game higher that it was and you can only play it online

Deello@lemm.ee on 10 May 2024 00:33 collapse

And it is attached to a subscription service that rotates games on a whim.

MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works on 10 May 2024 07:43 collapse

Have any NSO games been removed before? I’ve only ever heard of them adding new ones

DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml on 11 May 2024 11:17 collapse

You’re right about the classic games like NES, SNES etc., but I know for one that they took down Super Mario Bros. 35 permanently which is a part of the NSO subscription.

MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works on 11 May 2024 14:34 collapse

Ah yeah, forgot about the non emulated games they have with the subscription

gila@lemm.ee on 10 May 2024 02:16 next collapse

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.

Maven@lemmy.sdf.org on 10 May 2024 02:20 collapse

“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.

gila@lemm.ee on 10 May 2024 02:48 collapse

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.

Chozo@fedia.io on 10 May 2024 03:28 next collapse

For PS5, the last ~2 weeks of screenshots are accessible directly from the app, as well as video captures under a certain size (I think generally a 3-5 minute max). The console automatically backs them up to your PS cloud account.

AdmiralRob@lemmy.zip on 10 May 2024 03:36 collapse

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.

That’s the way on PS4. PS5 automatically sends all photo and video captures to the PS app on your phone. They disappear after 14 days, so if you don’t save them within two weeks, then you have to get them with chat posts like PS4.

Gestrid@lemmy.ca on 10 May 2024 03:46 collapse

You can actually go on your PS5 and re-send those photos or videos if you need to. Just hit select when you’ve got the photo you want to re-send highlighted, and an option to send it to the PS App will appear.

flames5123@lemmy.world on 10 May 2024 03:06 collapse

Yea, last time I tired, you have to connect to its personal wifi hotspot and download them via the app. It’s so backwards!

Gestrid@lemmy.ca on 10 May 2024 03:44 next collapse

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.

Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 10 May 2024 09:33 next collapse

This is a newer function though, wasn’t always available

Gestrid@lemmy.ca on 10 May 2024 10:42 collapse

It’s been a function for at least a few years. And they didn’t mention whether it had to be new or not.

Donut@leminal.space on 11 May 2024 13:49 collapse

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.html and you’re in.

Gestrid@lemmy.ca on 11 May 2024 17:05 collapse

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”)

Donut@leminal.space on 11 May 2024 18:10 collapse

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.

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.

Gestrid@lemmy.ca on 11 May 2024 19:00 collapse

With the second paragraph, I was mainly referring to your first comment about it being cumbersome (sorry for doing that out of order), which I took to be referring to the whole process. I probably could’ve phrased that a lot better.

Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 10 May 2024 09:23 next collapse

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.

xthexder@l.sw0.com on 10 May 2024 18:54 next collapse

Classic Nintendo, making simple things like copying screenshots so complicated hacking your switch is a reasonable thing to do…

Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 11 May 2024 08:06 next collapse

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.

DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml on 11 May 2024 10:19 collapse

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.

Alborlin@lemmy.world on 11 May 2024 15:19 collapse

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?
DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml on 11 May 2024 10:14 collapse

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.

Vaggumon@lemm.ee on 09 May 2024 22:04 next collapse

Good.

Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 May 2024 22:26 next collapse

Rare based move from Nintendo.

roofuskit@lemmy.world on 10 May 2024 01:39 next collapse

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.

dvdnet62@feddit.nl on 10 May 2024 04:30 collapse

Yeah because Twitter is very popular in Japan.

h3mlocke@lemm.ee on 10 May 2024 18:06 collapse

What the fuck u talking about?

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sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 10 May 2024 19:53 next collapse

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.

TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee on 10 May 2024 20:35 next collapse

This is wild to me.

dvdnet62@feddit.nl on 11 May 2024 00:33 collapse

that is why I mean it is very popular in Japan. it is in top 3 right? the highest in Asia?

lvxferre@mander.xyz on 09 May 2024 23:15 next collapse

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.

Nintendo didn’t provide one [reason], but it’s likely due to X’s increased API costs

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.

OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml on 10 May 2024 03:40 collapse

More like “Joanne got a promotion for integrating X!”, followed by “Mike got a promotion by saving the company 2M/year!”

lvxferre@mander.xyz on 10 May 2024 06:15 collapse

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.

Tregetour@lemdro.id on 09 May 2024 23:45 next collapse

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.

[deleted] on 10 May 2024 00:41 next collapse

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mhague@lemmy.world on 10 May 2024 01:02 next collapse

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. 👍

Tregetour@lemdro.id on 10 May 2024 02:04 collapse

I’m aware of that, but it’s worth highlighting the double standard anyway.

roofuskit@lemmy.world on 10 May 2024 01:40 next collapse

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.

nickhammes@lemmy.world on 10 May 2024 01:46 next collapse

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.

OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml on 10 May 2024 03:41 next collapse

Is it neutral? Nintendo integrating with X both advertises X and Nintendo

rsuri@lemmy.world on 10 May 2024 05:01 next collapse

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.

blind3rdeye@lemm.ee on 11 May 2024 12:19 collapse

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.

Tregetour@lemdro.id on 11 May 2024 12:54 collapse

Remember that the next time a service you like removes a function you use due to maintainer bias or pressure from a particular audience.

blind3rdeye@lemm.ee on 11 May 2024 13:28 collapse

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.

mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.uk on 09 May 2024 23:46 next collapse

Maybe they delete enough code to be able to give us a third “theme”.

DrDominate@lemmy.world on 09 May 2024 23:53 collapse

No can do. All the removed code is replaced with stability

lud@lemm.ee on 10 May 2024 15:59 next collapse

Can’t they at least update the localisation files too?

PlexSheep@infosec.pub on 10 May 2024 19:50 collapse

I don’t want stability. I want gaping holes where I can put more homebrew.

Blackmist@feddit.uk on 10 May 2024 00:58 next collapse

Is that because it costs money now?

I lose track of all the Elon madness.

assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world on 10 May 2024 19:38 collapse

The API is apparently obscenely expensive to use

bob_omb_battlefield@sh.itjust.works on 10 May 2024 22:13 collapse

How much could a tweet cost? $10?

Daft_ish@lemmy.world on 10 May 2024 02:29 next collapse

Cool.

cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca on 10 May 2024 02:45 next collapse

What? What type of integration? I just wanna watch Plex and Netflix on there.

Gestrid@lemmy.ca on 10 May 2024 03:38 collapse

Posting photos and videos from the Switch directly onto Twitter.

xavier666@lemm.ee on 10 May 2024 05:02 next collapse

The site should now be just called “Formerly Twitter”

PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk on 10 May 2024 09:09 next collapse

give it the Prince treatment

The social media network formerly known as Twitter

dumbass@leminal.space on 11 May 2024 10:56 collapse

Don’t you be disrespecting Prince like that!

PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk on 11 May 2024 11:54 collapse

You mean the artist formally known as prince?

dumbass@leminal.space on 11 May 2024 12:08 collapse
brbposting@sh.itjust.works on 10 May 2024 17:48 next collapse

Even okay with X-Twitter

(It is ex-Twitter)

Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 10 May 2024 19:23 next collapse

Roman Numeral 10

Jank@literature.cafe on 11 May 2024 17:15 collapse

I don’t think anything could possibly chide him more than simply forgetting and continuing to call it Twitter.

splonglo@lemmy.world on 10 May 2024 08:00 next collapse

nice job elon

airportline@lemmy.ml on 10 May 2024 11:01 collapse

Masterful gambit sir

[deleted] on 10 May 2024 09:53 next collapse

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Chronographs@lemmy.zip on 10 May 2024 10:06 collapse

Facebook launched only one year before the Xbox 360 did it wasn’t the boomer network back then.

NickwithaC@lemmy.world on 11 May 2024 09:28 next collapse

Was anyone tweeting from the switch in the first place?

[deleted] on 11 May 2024 13:46 next collapse

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nutsack@lemmy.world on 11 May 2024 16:55 collapse

Twitter is not primarily nazis

[deleted] on 11 May 2024 17:13 next collapse

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Socsa@sh.itjust.works on 11 May 2024 17:36 collapse

Source?

[deleted] on 12 May 2024 04:53 next collapse

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Tattorack@lemmy.world on 11 May 2024 14:45 next collapse

It’s been nearly a year and we’re still calling it “X, formerly Twitter”. XD

Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world on 11 May 2024 14:53 next collapse

Speak for yourself lol, I don’t know any morons calling it anything BUT Twitter

NutWrench@lemmy.world on 11 May 2024 16:26 next collapse

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.”

Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world on 11 May 2024 16:46 collapse

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.

pyre@lemmy.world on 11 May 2024 17:22 collapse

of course he’s obsessed with it. it’s pretty close to the swastika as far as letters go.

Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world on 11 May 2024 17:21 collapse

“The artist formerly known as Twitter”

Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world on 11 May 2024 17:00 next collapse

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MargotRobbie@lemmy.world on 11 May 2024 17:49 next collapse

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.

boatsnhos931@lemmy.world on 12 May 2024 21:19 collapse

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