• bigyabai 7 hours ago

    The 80% chance that someone develops a bootloader exploit is my favorite part of owning COTS Nvidia hardware. Doubly-so on locked-down platforms like the Nintendo Switch that really do benefit from having a homebrew store.

    • gjsman-1000 5 hours ago

      It will be interesting to see if the Switch 2 ever gets a mod chip, because NVIDIA has a completely reengineered boot chain that should be impenetrable. Combine that with an OS that already is impenetrable (no useful exploits in half a decade), we might be waiting an Xbox One-level amount of time.

      https://gbatemp.net/threads/switch-2-data-gathering-for-poss...

      • bigyabai 36 minutes ago

        > we might be waiting an Xbox One-level amount of time.

        You never know! People said that about the Switch at launch, and then someone softmodded it with a paperclip and USB-C.

    • Namidairo 6 hours ago

      I'm surprised that there are modern Tegra devices shipping with identical SBK across their production line.

      I would have thought they'd do some mixing based on serial number or chip id as a baseline.

      Or at least that's what the hash of their SBK implies.

      I do enjoy seeing the boot chain on Tegra get broken yet again though.