thanks for the replies guys but you seem to be having a nice chat amongst yourselves without really adressing my original post ^^
you´re talking to a noob here please have mercy.
the modchip is kind of expensive and i´m quite sure i´d turn my switch into some kind of modern art installation if i tried to solder it myself.
an untethered coldboot exploit could be released tomorrow on a very specific firmware version.
yeah that´s why i was holding off on just updating it without further research. i take that to mean booting into cfw without manually injecting a payload each time you turn it on. like on the vita for example. the contingency might be a remote one but still if possible without too much hassle i´d like to avoid it.
Atmosphere prevents fuse burning when updating online (by preserving autoRCM)
so as i was asking in my orignal post do i absolutely need atmosphere for that? i was talking about sxos since it bootet wthout problems for me and the update was easy . when i tried to boot athmosphere just out of curiousity i was greeted with a host of error messages and missing files warnings. also what´s autorcm ? the guide linked above mentioned to avoid checking the auto rcm box since it could brick my console but that was when using ChoiDujourNX and you were talking about updating online with athmosphere so i don´t know if these are related at all.
also i don´t even know if my switch is banned in which case i presume i couldn´t use the official update?. it might very well be. i bought it half a year ago and believe it might have been banned since it was really cheap and i couldn´t care less about playing online anyway. that i might need to use the official update function never even occured to me.
so if i´m able to officially update under sxos i couldn´t go back to a lower firmware. but i could with atmosphere?
and what about using ChoiDujourNX with sxos can i ignore the bis flag and leave the auto rcm unchecked?
the guide said Hekate, ReiNX and SXOS bypass these fuse checks and the fuse burns but when was this guide written does this apply to the newest 3.05 version of sxos too? to prevent burnign fuses i need to enable auto rcm it seems but if i enable autorcm on an ipatched switched i might end uo with an overoriced paperweight.
what is an ipatched switch and how do i find out if i got one?
other guides talk about updating / backing up my emummc and / or sysnand with hekate no idea what that is or why that matters. is this a hekate thing that can be ignored on sxos?
so do i need hekate or atmosphere or both for that?