If you have it on Airplane mode and put it in the dock it also re-enables bluetooth while keeping wifi off.
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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Awesome, but is that default or do you have to tweak it? Cant remember now if I actually tweaked anything lol
By default AFAIK.
Hope so, my hydros killing me
A switch playing breath of the wild non stop for a month would use about 8kwh. I don't know what rates are like where you live but that would cost me about $1.20. If you are looking to reduce your power consumption, the switch is not going to get you there in any meaningful way.
A ps5 uses as much power in 1 hour as a switch does in 18. A mid range gaming pc will use as much electricity in an hour as a switch will in about 30-40 hours.
Mobile electronics use very little electricity and aren't going to cost you very much to operate.
I just hate the idea of random electronics misusing wifi to cuck me into paying their botnet distributed computing bullshit costs. Haha
Misusing wifi? Botnet distributed computer? What do you mean?
It feels like one of those AI hallucinations that sound plausible if you don't actually know anything about the subject matter.
Just disconnect it from the wifi network.
If the wifi on the switch is a problem on airplanes, why are wireless controllers not also a problem? It's still RF signals, just in a different band of the EM spectrum whether it's bluetooth, or something else.
You half answered your question. Different band and very different levels of signal strength.
And there are airplanes that allow wifi, just not all of them yet.
If wifi was actually a legit issue, TSA would make you surrender all electronics. No if and but.
You are seriously misunderstanding TSA's purpose.
And the issue with wireless communications in airplanes was never that it was a huge risk by itself, it was always that there's a small chance that it could increase noise enough that some important communication might potentially be missed or misinterpreted. And there are lots of things that factor in the risk, like power, bands, and the amount of people not following the rules - it's very different to have one person forgetting to shut off the cellular signal on the phone or to have 200 phones on full blast mode trying to reach the nearest antenna.
Eh doubt. Everyone's on their LTE nowadays...
It's no different than 200 ppl exiting an underground tunnel on a train.
Again, if ever there was real concern, all devices would have to be surrendered.
Let's pretend for a second that the TSA is not a circus meant to appease people that are not paying too much attention being performed by an organisation that's effectively an employer of last resort.
The TSA will not even stop people from taking what they would need to make a Molotov cocktail with what they can buy in the airport shop. Their stated goal is not to reduce the risk of incidents to 0 is reducing it to reasonable level with the least disruption to the air travelers as possible - otherwise they would be trying to get people to fly naked and without luggage.
The restrictions on RF in aircraft are not based on band, last I heard. Low signal strength might let them slip by, but the question is will staff know that? Are you going to argue with them about it until they remove you from the plane? shrug I'm just saying, if radio signals are the problem, other sources of radio signals are also potentially a problem. Seems like it'd just be easier to use wired/attached/whatever controllers (I don't own a Switch, I dunno how that works.)
All airplanes I've been in the last decade explicitly allow Bluetooth - and it's very easy for the staff to see the dozens of people wearing wireless head/earphones. For WiFi it's usually tied to the existence of on-board Internet.
Ah, ok. I haven't flown in probably 15-20 years, so I apparently had old information. My bad.