TL;DR- No.

You can’t install homebrew (including unofficial emulators) on the Switch without being able to set up and boot into a hacked emuNAND (effectively a hacked backup copy of the Switch OS running off the microSD). Afaik you can’t do that without a launch edition Switch where you can short the controller pins to access the recovery “menu” and use that to push custom “hack” code to the Switch.

switch.hacks.guide is your friend if you want a reputable source on the current best method to get emuNAND set up. The current tool/custom OS/whatever the fuck they call it is named Atmosphere.

If you have an Android phone, you can try emulating those games using PPSSPP, and if it works at a decent speed (it probably will) you can pick up a phone mount for your controller of choice and a USB C to USB C cable to just slap the phone onto the top of a controller and then use your phone to emulate from.

Unless this is a dump of something that hasn’t been catalogued by one of the dump checking groups like nointro, there’s no advantage to even risking it.

You can search their database on their website, and you can find full romsets (collections of roms that match their known good file hashes) on archive.org.

And if it’s a romhack, wouldn’t you better serve your readers by pointing them to the safe downloads on archive.org, to the patch, and to tools to do it themselves?

It’s just not worth the risk.

Yes, that’s something we all should be doing, but that won’t stop this from effecting you.

Google is trying to make a change so that all apps will have to have their creator show their identity to Google so they can be installed. This specifically applies to sideloaded apks. That means it applies to everything from sketchy random apks, to github, to F-Droid.

There’s no way to work around it (if it even can be) until Google rolls it out so custom ROMs can reverse engineer it to offer an option to disable.

Even if it can be disabled on the phone’s end, that now cuts your potential userbase so dramatically that it’s going to gut the open source software scene on android. Either give in to Google (so goodbye high school student devs, people from not ok countries, or people making shit Google doesn’t like), or enjoy your potential userbase of maybe a few thousand people who have the custom rom(s) with a workaround, resulting in an actual userbase of maybe one hundred.

This is about all app makers, not just ones in the Google Play Store. This also applies to third party app devs and hobbiests making open source apps to put up on alternative app stores like the all open source F-Droid.

Exchange Server is effectively dead mid October too. Technically they have Exchange Server SE as an option, but it’s clearly not how they want people using Exchange anymore. They don’t even want hybrid setups.

Which is extra annoying because if you have Azure AD (I guess it’s Entra ID now) syncing from an on prem AD forest, half of the mailbox management shit in Exchange Online just doesn’t work and forces you to make the changes on-prem anyway.

Yep, was literally made as a marketing stunt.

Windows Server is less of a general use server, and more of just a staging platform for Microsoft’s other specific server based software installs. And even a lot of those don’t co-mingle on the same server well.

Have fun with that then. Sorry about your balls.

If you’re competent and technologically saavy enough to use a Linux distro as your daily driver, you can learn to make Windows work for you too.

Waste of effort if you don’t need to interact with any Windows environments for school or work, but definitely possible.

For me? I’m happy to get paid to automate shit using PowerShell that should have been basic built in functionality from the start. PowerShell is just the most convenient scripting language due to being packed-in with most Windows installs, and tons of built in functionality for interfacing with other Microsoft products. So as long as Microsoft keeps sucking, I’ve got a comfy paycheck.

And if the year of the Linux desktop ever finally happens? I’m ready, I’ll be cheering, and I’ll be ready to get paid helping companies to make the switch.

I’m usually a Windows “shill” or at least a casual defender of it, as I work in a Windows environment and it’s not as bad as people pretend it is. No shade against Linux, I love it and Windows is bad. Just not like “I’d rather self-castrate” bad.

Anyway…

But for a home server? Either be super lazy and set up samba shares from your Windows desktop for the drives (avoid having a server at all) or bite the bullet and use Linux. You’ll get so much more out of a Linux server that it’s not even funny.

My understanding is that they forked it after he had a different, earlier crashout about their retroarch core and handling user support. He changed the entire license to prevent them from continuing to use his code to make a core. Then they hard forked from before the license change and made the swanstation core. So not illegal, but spiteful as all hell.

That said, forking it illegally wouldn’t be outside the realm of possibility for the retroarch devs. It’s entirely possible I don’t have accurate info on the order of events etc.

But I’ll be real, while I care about these devs as people and wish they would just get some community members to act as filters for support requests (seems to be the leading cause of dev burnout)… emulator dev drama isn’t worth getting wrapped up in.

They crawl wikipedia too, and are adding significant extra load on their servers, even though Wikipedia has a regularly updated torrent to download all its content.

So this is your project? Judging from your username here and the test messages shown in your screenshot here and on the Github. Nemesis.

Brand new lemmy account with only this post on it.

And the entire Github codebase is made up of a single commit of all the files 2 hours ago as of the time I’m commenting.

As I’ve said before with similar posts from (I believe) other users/coders: just be up front about if something you’re posting was your weekend project or just something to fill out a portfolio.

Yes, but it still deserves the question to be asked explicitly. I don’t think most iPhone users looking for a music reccomendation app would assume they’d need to selfhost in order to use an app.

And again, if as the dev he’s not prepared to set up his own server for use to pass basic testing, it begs the question of what exactly he’s expecting out of his end users and if it’s truly a reasonable ask even if they’re prepared to self host

Wait, how is this app going to function on release if you can’t stand up the basic resources for it to function for them to test it? Every user has to self host their own?

Which brings up another issue: if there isn’t an easy way for you to secure the server as the developer, is it fair for you to just dump all that on your end users?

Lemmy doesn’t show overall karma anywhere by default, and as far as I know, no communities are using automated moderation to prevent “low karma” accounts from posting.

Not saying it isn’t, just that there’d be no point.

You could try your post on other selfhosting communities in the meantime like !selfhost@lemmy.ml or !selfhosting@slrpnk.net

The difference between 4chan and Reddit is pretty small

I’m sorry, but I sincerely doubt you’ve been on 4chan recently.

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Not seeing it on APKmirror. Aurora Store can be used to dowload from Google Play without an account.

If you’re willing to trust a stranger on the internet, I downloaded the latest version from Aurora Store and uploaded it here.

For some reason the only option is to save as app bundle. There are multiple apks inside, I’m not sure which you would install or how you would install the whole bundle.

Hope it helps!

I generally prefer RetroArch. It’s a bit of a bear to get used to and configure, but once you learn it or get it set up well, it “just works”. Plus, being able to navigate everything with just the controller is incredibly convenient.

On top of that, the settings, saves, and savestates are compatible in retroarch running on any platform. That’s not such a big deal anymore that a lot of emulators have releases on multiple platforms, but it’s nice to be able to start a game on say, my phone, and pick it up on my desktop.

And I can’t get over the sheer depth of what you can do with shaders with it. I store my games in folders by console, so I can set up one preset and apply it to all games in a folder.

All that said, in my experience it doesn’t do great with consoles after the PS1 era. Dolphin is slower than standalone and afaik is a much older revision, I never even tried the mess of the experimental PS2 core, and while these aren’t much of a problem anymore the PPSSPP and DeSmume cores used to be pretty rough compared to standalone.

If you’re emulating newer stuff, I’d suggest standalone emulators. If you only want to emulate a few things, skip the configuration mess and go standalone.

If you have a large library to emulate, the up front config work of RetroArch is absolutely worth it. If you have a few things to emulate from PS1/N64, it might be worth it to use RetroArch just to avoid the plugin hell of standalone emulators for those systems. If you like being able to plug in a controller and just go, not touching your keyboard or mouse again until you’re done gaming, it’s worth it. If you want to fiddle with things like black frame insertion, run ahead, and shaders to get the best quality video output possible, it’s worth it.

Depends on if you’re allowed to bring the Pi in at all. Might be safer to just buy what you need “on site”. There’s a lot more to this than just the technical side.

Whatever you do, just be careful. A lot of places don’t play easy with foreigners breaking the law. It can be easy to hide what you’re specifically doing over a network, but they don’t need to know what you’re spefically doing to say “bypassing the filter at all is illegal”, “using tor gives us probable cause”.

Depending on your situation and how they check things you bring in, it might be better to just load up a/some big hard drive(s) with enough content to carry you through until your next trip outside the filter. Knew someone who was in a similar situation for a long while that would emulate their way through old console game libraries like that.

May be worth looking into how political dissidents can protect themselves. Hidden encrypted containers. Private vps outside the filter that you connect to, doing all your questionable shit on the remote server outside, so the only data transfer is video feed to/from. If hiding what you’re doing is needed, steal notes from the people with lives at stake.

So much of this depends on specifics it may not be safe for you to share. Probably worth asking questions in some of the privacy focused communities.

OpenWRT won’t hide what you’re doing from the network that handles your internet connection. It’s just an option for something you could use as a router/wifi AP.