chrishuck, 1 month ago

@caseyliss Enshitify everything!! Especially for kids!

caseyliss, 2 months ago

1. He needs a Nintendo Switch Online account to do so
2. I have a Nintendo Switch Online account, and am trying to convert to a family plan, but Nintendo's website refuses to let me.
3. He also needs an Xbox account, despite us never having owned an Xbox
4. The Switch edition of Minecraft doesn't allow you to enter arbitrary IPs, so at the very least I need to add a DNS record to pihole and at the most I may need an entire faux server that masquerades as a real one

siracusa, 2 months ago

@caseyliss You’d better hope he doesn’t start asking you to install mods.

stegrainer, 2 months ago

@siracusa @caseyliss We’ve been telling the kid that our computers can’t handle mods for almost a decade. At this point he’s mostly given up … >.>

charlesesmith, 2 months ago

@siracusa @caseyliss Challenge: discern the difference between the legit mod sites and the ones that just install malware.

potatoDOTzip, 2 months ago

@siracusa @caseyliss Bedrock edition (all the versions except Java (which is only available on desktop)) can’t be modded except for the official add-ons from the in-game store. Java edition mods have become surprisingly user-friendly (compared to Forge at least) using Fabric (fabricmc.net) as the loader and Modrinth (modrinth.com) as the place to download mods from.

stegrainer, 2 months ago

@caseyliss Yeeeeeah, the Switch version of Minecraft is a clustercuss. It was even worse when they had two different versions simultaneously for awhile.

Might be time to move to the computer version … at least there you can back up locally made files or more easily join servers (should you choose that route instead).