Switch firmware update 8.1.0 out now
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You have two options:
- Downgrade to 8.0.1 or lower
- Wait for SX OS (or Atmosphere, if you're impatient) to put out an update to support 8.1.0
How do you accidentally upgrade?
I actually did the same... I'm used to pressing A to select my user when I boot up a game, and without looking I pressed A when the update prompt came up. Doesn't help that the cursor is automatically on Restart and Update :-/
I have no doubt that this has been going on since the very early days of theFlash carts on the DS & DS lites.
They either:
- Took no measures to block updates and pressed A without paying attention to what they were doing.
- Are lying to save face after intentionally updating without being aware of the consequences.
I don't think you can even force the Switch to turn off in time, once you hit Update it takes about 2 seconds before the console reboots itself (when it prompts you to Update that means it has already downloaded the updated and has queued it to install). In contrast, it takes about 8-10 seconds to do a hard shutdown by holding down the power button. And even if you could, you're basically asking for a brick...
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I'd just like to point out that the former is frighteningly easy to do if you have the DNS temporarily disabled for any reason. I've done it before. The problem is that the update prompt shows up before the user prompt, so muscle memory can almost certainly fuck you over when you're used to hitting A twice quickly to launch a game. Furthermore, it immediately updates without confirmation unlike the Settings option (which is shitty, honestly.)
This is one of the many reasons why my Switch hasn't touched the internet since 5.1.0 came out.
It still works, yes. L4T doesn't touch Horizon at all, so it'll still boot up as normal through Hekate.
is there anyway to delete the pending update? keeps bugging me to update everytime i boot a game....
You can do this by booting into Maintenance Mode. With the console powered off, hold down the volume up and volume down buttons, then press the Power Button to turn the console on. Be sure to keep pressing down the volume buttons until the recovery mode menu is displayed. When you are in the recovery menu, just simply press the power button again to turn the console off. After you boot the console back up normally, you'll need to either turn on Airplane mode or use the SwitchBru DNS (otherwise the update will download itself again).
You can download the firmware file online and install it with ChoiDujourNX. As for where to find that firmware file, Google is your friend.
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Although I still don't agree, medical debt is rarely a choice, whereas enrolling in university is certainly a choice
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College costs, college loans, book prices, the entire thing is predatory, oft touted as essential to a successful life for my generation and the ones since, and completely unaffordable without putting you through an insane financial hardship for literal decades in many situations.+1 -
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Sicklyboy:
Many of the same issues can be seen for the insanely predatory healthcare and health insurance system in the US+1
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Sicklyboy:
It's important for society to be healthy and educated. If those things can't happen because all of the institutions that prop up those industries make it unattainable for all but a small portion of society, then your society is largely going to be disease ridden, dying, and uneducated in very short order.
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Issue is it's too rich of a coperation already with bad sugar diets causing diabetes and killing teeth a new set of teeth around 90k -
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I agree it's not easy for the average American, let alone the ones below that average. Free / cheaper healthcare is much more important I think than free university education.+1
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If it's needed to keep you healthy it shouldn't cost you $90k. The fact that it does is an enormous problem
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And if the concern is that "well we can't trust the government to intervene for this because the government can't do anything right and wastes tons of money" then holy shit push for a better government. I'm certainly trying to. Don't throw your hands up and go "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"
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@K3Nv2 that's crazily expensive. how long will that take to pay off?
Although diet is largely education, people don't need to go to university to learn what's healthy and what's not,
it's the whole country, big corporations and advertising that is to blame for leading most of the population to believe that poptarts and froot loops are healthy to feed a child -
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i would think the population knows better but with food deserts and abject poverty, sometimes a poptart gonna have to do. -
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As someone who went through the grade school system in the US some time within the past 30 or so years, not nearly enough is done to promote and educate on how to eat healthy in a way that is feasible to do on a regular basis and also affordable. Eating healthy is, comparatively, fucking expensive. So is eating unhealthy, but in many cases eating unhealthy is more affordable than eating healthy+1
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