[foxtrottbravo]

This seems like an obvious case of Support-Team knowledge topic: people are having issues with their switch getting on to the Internet, here is a support article describing a one size fits all solutions. But as a network guy I hatte the assumptions they made. It's the same as telling a user: Just disable the Firewall and it will work.

I feel like it would be a fun excercise to intentionally subvert the assumptions they made and see how they handle it.

Something like putting your Switch on a /30 or Configuring DHCP to assign IPs in decreasing order.

[dotancohen]

  > I feel like it would be a fun excercise to intentionally subvert the assumptions they made and see how they handle it.

The very first question they ask on the page explaining how to find the network information [1] is which operating system is the client using. The choices are Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, and Mac OS. I would bet that a significant portion of HN readers have already subverted that question before it was asked.

[1] https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/...

[KennyBlanken]

A shocking number of game publisher troubleshooting instructions include "just run it as administrator" among their troubleshooting steps, which is pretty horrifying. It's considered standard advice in PC gaming circles among the 20-and-under or tech-uneducated adult segments.

[HPsquared]

On a single-user machine, there really isn't much "security" difference between user vs root.

Full access to the user's data, and ability to run 99% of code that one might want to run, is plenty bad enough already.

[colejohnson66]

Relevant Xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1200/