I’m especially curious about the “find someone who will do it as a service” bit, though. How could I find such a person?

Really depends on where you live. Local classifieds, local p2p selling apps like offerup, facebook marketplace (gross), craigslist, word of mouth from friends/family/coworkers, asking here, or reddit (also gross). Otherwise there's plenty of sites willing to let you ship a switch to them and do it for monies.

As far as vetting anything you find, feel it out as best you can via communication and reviews. I have no recommendations for anything specific unfortunately.

Is there really no way to homebrew a Mariko Switch without soldering?

No, there isn't.

I’m extremely afraid to fuck up anything with my Switch BUT I want the free games.

So find someone who will do it as a service, or buy a V1 and sell your mariko.

How come there is no way to exploit the software like it happened with V1?

Because it was a bug, and they fixed it.

Isn’t the modding community invested in claiming another console?

Of course, but 90% of the community is going to say that modchip is "good enough" and move on.

Or is the thing that really tough to homebrew without the hardware modding?

Yes.

You want a physical KVM, like a JetKVM.

You can get software only ones, but these run as a program in the OS, so you can't access anything BIOS or troubleshoot if the OS doesn't load, as then the software KVM won't.

He used to frequent parties at a mutual friend's place, pretty much bimonthly the friend would have everyone over and we'd trash his garage. Movies one night, Xbox halo lan another, big magic game etc. I haven't seen him for over 20 years now.

He went by "Chocolate Mountain" then. Everyone called him that. Good times.

I'm poking people who know him to see if I can get something more concrete than "I think", but IIRC he might have passed. He's doing good, still posting to FB and stuff.

I love seeing this one pass by, everytime I can think, "hey I know that guy!"

I can only think of a couple.

Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates - Epic Rap Battles of History (Youtube)

Code Monkey - Jonathan Coulton (Youtube)

EDIT: One more:

The Gates - Davinci's Notebook (only Youtube link)

this isn't necessarily true. I haven't played in a while, but java servers using custom implementations like paper or bungeecord can use Geyser to allow Bedrock clients to connect to Java servers. There's some things that are wierd or don't work, as there's a bit of feature parity issues between versions, they're not the same game. But you can play together.

I used to play on a server with it and people would login with bedrock accounts (free with java purchase) so they could have an alt for dailies and storage.

That's the power of GitHub. The fork still shows idolize as the author and clearly has gpl3 license (added by idolize). They can change what they want in the original repo, but the fork is covered forever, and ironclad proof of the licensing. If OP's code is based off this fork, unmodified (of which it's a fork, also ironclad proof it's that gpl3 version) then it's also gpl3. Saaaafe. This should be open and shut on github's end, just a dumb DMCA report.

Yes please link us to the bug tracker if it's public, or the app if not, so we can confirm the bug for them (which they'll obviously hate, but deserve).

If a single bug report about it got this reaction... Imagine.

I own the TurboGrafx 16 version, it was one of my favorite games for it. That was my only console as a child, good times. There is a cutscene at the start, and that's all the lore the manual offers too: https://r.mprd.se/TurboGrafx-16/TG16-PCE/EXTRAS/Manuals/Bomberman%20%28U%29.pdf

Something along the lines of a inventor's daughter being kidnapped by an invention gone evil (black Bomberman), and you are the one who didn't go bad, trying to rescue her (which you do by the end).

I don't have the manual anymore, but it's findable online.

you literally just need a bridge. here are instructions for debian.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1fprlsa/virtual_surround_sound_on_linux/

Pipewire spatializer. But it looks like you need a special wav file ("HRTF"?) for a specific headset, not sure where is best to source those.

Nothing at all. If things go south on the install I'll have a clean slate. Really the only thing I have backed up are keys, everything else is nonessential.