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The Saltwater Chronicles. Preface.
This is the objective. It’s simple. I love finding things of value. I always have. I have often found myself wondering how big Buisness gets started and the answers are often more than not very simplistic. The main reason, I discovered over time, was that big Buisness is successful is because they have something people need or the have something people perceive as something they need. For example. Apple produces and sells electronic consumer products that customers perceive they need, they don’t really need them, it’s more of a want then a need, so it’s a perceived need. However K and C the company behind table salts around the world produce something we need and that is salt. Yep, Simple salt. Before you start pounding comments into the comment bar with your disagreements about humans actual need for salt it must be stated that without salt humans die. There, I said it. That’s a fact. Did you know that the Aboriginals of Australia had to mine rock salt from the earth in the middle of the Australian Pilliga forest in order to survive? Mind you they were at least 1000 kms from the sea so they had to get their salt intake from wherever they could get it. This included the Salt bush, which was another source of salt for the aboriginal people. Salt bush was simply picked from the plant and chewed, it tastes salty for anyone wondering…. So there’s two examples of humanities struggles to fulfil its’ need for salt. Another is possibly more well known. Are you familiar with a man by the name of Mahatma Gandhi? Well, he lead a mission across India in the 1930’s to harvest sea salt from the ocean? Why? Well because without salt humans die and for some reason the British decided to attach a tax to all salt purchased within India. They were essentially taxing Indians right to have an essential product for life. As a result Gandhi marched to the ocean and in an act of defiance he simply started to harvest the salt from the water itself. He was arrested for this act as were sixty thousand other fellow Indians. What a world. Here I was thinking this whole time that the British were the good guys in the story, turns out they were actually giant salt taxing twats. No surprise really. Another one of my heros undermined by their deviate past lives. Anyways, back to the value of salt. As you can see people will do just about anything to get it if they can’t access it. Therefore it has real value. In fact, salt has been used as currency for trade in societies more than once. It is indeed a tradable commodity and therefore a true store of value. Now, I have always struggled to make money. I mean. I work hard for a living. In fact there was a time when I was punching out eighty hours a week but making money by selling my own labour is a shit way to make money. Think about it like this. I trade my time that I only get once for a bag of peanuts. What the actual fuck? I mean realistically my time is traded for more than a bag of peanuts but think about the value of what I trade for these peanuts. Time really is of the essence. Every second that passes is a second you will never get again. And here we all are, trading this priceless commodity for bags of simple hypothetical peanuts. Better yet, did you now that because of inflation these peanuts are worth less next year then what they are when you initially received them. Yep, that basically means the following. If you received one hundred dollars doos for working and you stashed this under your mattress than you have just saved one hundred dollarly doos. Simple right? Well not really you see if you were to remove that one hundred dollars doos from your mattress in one year it would only buy you Ninety Eight dollary doos worth of goods. Yep, if this is something you have done and you probably have, it’s also known a saving than you have experienced the Magic of inflation. But it’s not really magic, it is in fact manipulation of the fiat currency system we are all slaves too. Didn’t quite understand what I just said? Having troubles comprehending my words? Well, that’s the way they want it. Basically put the government of world powers strive to achieve two percent inflation each year so that paying off government debt gets easier over time. To put it plainly. One hundred dollars today will buy one hundred dollars worth of potatoes today. But in one year that same one hundred dollars will only buy you ninety eight dollars worth of potatoes. Yep. How’s that for simplicity? But why is this I hear you ask? Well, that’s because of market dynamics. Simply put, the more money a government prints the more inflation that finds its way into the system. In fact you might be aware of a country called Germany. Well Germany went through a period of inflation right before World War 2, in fact it helped cause World War 2. In fact, to be truthful, Germany actually went through a period of Hyper Inflation. That is to say that instead of one hundred dollars buying ninety eight dollars worth of potatoes next year it would only buy fifty dollars worth of potatoes. This has happened more than once. Germany is far from the only example. Eventually any nation that has diluted its currency too far risks hyper inflation. Welcome to my world. Sometimes ignorance is bliss but knowing just how much your government is screwing you is calming in some ways. You see, that vindication you feel is deserved, you were right. The government is screwing you, just like you always suspected. Now back to the value of salt. In Ancient Rome if you were a hard worker than it was said that you were worth ones salt. Yep, you weren’t worth ones fiat currency or worth ones Bitcoin you were worth ones salt. And that’s because salt was sometimes paid as wages and that’s because it has actual value. I can’t express this enough. Salt is real money. Money is real salt. And it for this very reason that I have decided to become a salt miner… Now, if you’ve hung in for the duration of this podcast I must thank you for being here. I appreciate the fact that anyone listens to anything I’ve got to share. I truely value my listeners and you know I don’t lie because I understand what value is and now hopefully so do you. Now, my plan is simple. I am going to harvest sea salt from the ocean one bucket at a time. I am going to learn how to process this sea water to refine has many products of true value from them as possible. By doing this I hope to share with my listeners a unique insight into what value is and what it takes to extract value from something as simple as a bucket of seawater. Sounds exciting right? I’m sure that if you give me a chance to explain in the upcoming episodes you will never look at the ocean the same way again. Thanks for reading! Please subscribe to my YouTube channel, simply search for Micheal Farmer. I need all the support I can get, your comments have real value to me! Please feel free to ask questions or if there is something that is not quite factual about what I have shared please correct me accordingly! Until the next episode continue being worth ones salt!
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On this special episode I will be discussing an extraction technique that has been practiced for millennia. This process was something ancient peoples discovered more than a thousand years ago and is one of the most fundamental basics of modern chemistry. Welcome to the world of alchemists, wizards, witches and chemists. If you had the chance to travel back in time to the dark ages you might be fortunate enough to stumble upon someone that we would today consider an alchemist, wizard, witch or Druid. Make no mistake, these people were the odd ones out. They collected knowledge as a hobby and practiced their newly discovered arts in their spare time. As a result of this experimental attitude these strange ones discovered and lost vast quantities of knowledge. One such snippet of knowledge is as follows. Did you know that you can extract a valuable compound from wood ash? This compound has many valuable uses. First and foremost it is an important ingredient in the making of Castile soap or any soap for that matter. It can also be used for extracting nitrates from bat guano that can than be used in the manufacturing of gun powder. This compound can also be used for making a flux for glazes on ceramics and for lowering the melting point of ores to extract metals. This compound which can be extracted from wood ash is called potassium carbonate also known as potash. Welcome to the foundations of modern chemistry. Listen to the podcast or YouTube video above and I will tell you how to obtain this compound or simply read on for the written instructions. The first step you are going to want to do is to collect some hard wood. The harder the wood the better. Soft woods such as pine will also work but bear in mind that you will retrieve lower quantities of Potassium Carbonate from wood ash if you choose to use soft woods. Once you have collected a good quantity of wood you will need to get a good hearty fire going. All the wood needs to be consumed in the fire leaving only charcoal and fine white wood ash. The charcoal can be placed to the side and used for other purposes such as water filtering or used as a primary ingredient in the gunpowder itself. The white ash should be collected by screening the charcoal from the ash. A window screen will do the trick. Simply place the screen on the opening of a bucket, now pour the entire fire contents over the screen. Shake the screen to filter the ash into the bucket below. Now that you have separated the fine white powder from the fires’ remains it is time to fill the bucket with water. Rain water is best but any water will be fine. Keep the white ash at the bottom of the bucket and fill with water. Now stir the contents and allow the mixture to settle. This settling will take some time. Once it has settled the potassium carbonates will have dissolved into the water. Now you can pour off the water into a pan and allow the sun to evaporate the water. The other method is to put the water into a pot and boil off the water. This is more energy intensive but will be much quicker. If you choose to use wood as the heating source you can now save the ashes from that fire to extract more potassium carbonate. In the world of wizards, witches and chemists everything has value. After all, nothing is free in water world. Once you have boiled or evaporated the water off you will be left with a fine white powder at the bottom of the pan, don’t worry, this isn’t the ash that we started with, this is something else. This is the potassium carbonate you are looking for. Congratulations, you have just completed your first extraction and now have one ingredient for making soap and two ingredients for making gunpowder. The first compound you received was the charcoal from the wood you burned, this can be kept for many useful purposes. And the second compound you have collected is the potassium carbonate extracted from the wood ash. Look at you go, you have just passed your first lesson of wizarding, witching or chemistry. How you vision this simple process is your choice. Store these compounds in two separate containers and label for later use! Not only have you learnt how to extract these compounds but you have also started you very first chemical compound collection! In other words have just started your own mini chemical industry. Congratulations is clearly in order. On the next episode I will continue to discuss how to use these compounds to make some of the most important products in the modern world from soap to gunpowder and from fluxes for the extraction of metals from ores to glazes for the purposes of sealing fired pottery. Over the course of the next episode I am sure that you will discover that Potash is quiet simply fascinating. Thanks for listening, watching and reading. If you happen to find the information I have provided helpful in any way please give this a thumbs up and subscribe and don’t forget to check out my webpage at MichealFarmer.com and support me over on anchor at Micheal Farmer. If you have any questions in regards to this process please leave a comment in the comments section below and I will endeavour to reply as quickly as I can. Cheers!
PlayStation 5’s are now available! If you know where to look...
If you’ve found this article then you are amongst the oncoming hoards of gamers who are asking the same question. Where the bloody hell can I buy a PlayStation Five?”. So, thanks to @novasensei (as reported by Games Radar) The word is out! Physical disk edition PlayStation 5’s are temporarily available in Australia! Insiders have detailed that they have indeed received emails from the head offices of a certain well known company explaining that there is indeed a small number of Playstation 5’s available to preorder as of the 15/01/2021. Now the rush is on to get your hands on one. So what’s the the name of this fantastic retailer that has finally received a batch of the freshest consoles I hear you eagerly asking? That would be none other than JB HiFi. To order a PlayStation Five you will need to go in store, in person. The purchase needs to be paid for in full on the day of the preorder. But be quick, stock is extremely limited and if you do not act fast you may miss out for another few weeks or months. Keep in mind that this preorder is for the physical disk PlayStation 5 not the digital PlayStation 5. There is still no word on when these will be available for order. JB HiFi is currently not accepting online preorders, nor have they currently advertised the fact that these consoles are available. I repeat. To preorder you will have to go into the store in person and ask for the console from the head of the games department. It doesn’t get much more promising than that!
So, where are all the PlayStation 5’s? That’s the question everyone is asking and also the question that that apparently no one has a straight answer for.
Simply put, if you have been looking to buy the PlayStation 5 than you may be better off holding out for the PlayStation 6 at the rate all this nonsense is proceeding. Official sources indicate absolutely nothing of any value other than that some time in the future the elusive console will be available for purchase. Amazon has cut its last tree of hope down with no further information in regards to PS5 consoles except that they have plenty of PS5 accessories, hmm I wonder why that would be... Big W, EB Games and Harvey Norman have also continued to have nothing to offer. But still, there are a couple of rays of hope for those desperate enough to follow through. The good news is that eBay still has plenty of disk edition consoles available, providing you have taken the time to preorder a good quantity of lube for the reaming you’re about to receive if you bite the pillow and purchase one. For example you could be looking between $1600 and $2000 to get your hands on one. I even seen one desperate seller with a price tag of $10000.00. Who the hell would pay that? Many people are of the opinion that eBay console scalpers have been beating a dead horse for far too long now and that perhaps it is high times that legislation is changed to stop scalpers in the first place. Whatever the case Scalpers seem to be getting away with it as eBay sales are still proceeding. And than there’s a little known website called Exspansys, that at the time of writing this article still had stock of the digital versions of the console. The good news with this site is that the reaming you will receive for buying one isn’t quite as savage as that offered by eBay. For example you can buy a digital version of the PS5 console from exspansys for $1279.99 whereas eBay Australia currently has absolutely no stock available in the digital versions at all. There is still the possibility that you could purchase a digital console from the United States, providing you pay a premium for it, as well as fork out for the shipping costs. The latest figures seem to suggest that you will pay anywhere between $1200 AUD and $1400 AUD. If anything changes in regards to preorder or release news I will be sure to keep you updated. It is best to keep in mind that all current news sources seem to indicate that it could be a couple of months before any good news surfaces in regards to the next preorder wave. In having said all this It could be some time yet before we see the PS5 back on shelves. If you find yourself confused about the laws in regards to riding electric scooters in Australia you are not alone! The best place to find information is the Queensland Government Site but I have saved you the drama and lifted all the relevant information for my site. Check out the information below for all you need to know in regards to Electric Scooter Laws Queensland. Rules for personal mobility devices
The iPhone 12 is fantastic. It is by far the best smart phone I have ever owned but it is not without its limitations or flaws. There is one obvious flaw in particular that deserves mentioning.
When I first received the iPhone 12 I was a little confused. You see, I already knew that I wasn’t getting a charger with it, we had been told this by Apple and it was written on the box (although it should be said that it was in small print, in fact it was in really small print). Where the real confusion set in was after I pulled an included USB C to lighting cable from the box that I could not use with any of my previous USB A chargers or portable chargers for that matter. Immediately I thought, I can fix this, adapter. A simple adapter should have been able to fix all my problems but it wasn’t that easy. You see getting a USB C female to USB A male adapter is not a simple task, especially in store. Perhaps on the fancy internet you can get one but good luck finding one on the very same day you need to charge your iPhone! Without even knowing it I had been baited and hoodwinked. What was the reason behind this decision? Everyone has their theories. Apple stated that the reason they left the charging device out was because of its efforts to help reduce the company’s carbon footprint. Some people are not convinced this is the case. Out of interest I recently found myself watching a video on YouTube arguing that the real reason Apple left out the charger was simply money. This is not a bad argument and I agree that having to buy a new charger is a pain when it comes to this version of the iPhone. But the problem is somewhat of an illusion. Just because Apple includes the USB C to lightening cable doesn’t mean you have to use the USB C to lightening version of the cable. The fix is quite simple. Take your old cord, that you were previously using with your previous iPhone, and use your old charger to charge your new device. It won’t charge it as fast as the new USB C chargers could (20 watt charger needed) but it will still charge your device. And there you have it. Problem fixed. Unfortunately this doesn’t help people who have never had an iPhone though, nor does it help you use the cable provided. And that’s the real issue. Apple has mislead costumers into thinking that they need a USB C charger after they were told by Apple in the new iPhone presentation that they didn’t need a new charger at all. There’s no denying it, this is simply one of the poorest and deceptive decisions Apple has yet made. It’s a marketing trick and a behavioural trick. The user has been hoodwinked into thinking they need a new charger while at the same time they’re told they don’t need one at all. My attitude toward this issue can be best described by Gollum who said it best “sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!”
When buying a HomePod mini it is important to understand what you are buying before you commit to the purchase. Me on the other hand? Well, I simply jumped head first into the purchase in order to give you some realistic perspective of this product.
So, what did I just buy and was it worth the $149.00 I spent on the device? Possibly... Now I say possibly for two reasons. I originally bought this device not fully understanding the purposes of the device before hand. In my mind I had the device I wanted with a short list of expectations I was hoping for and than once I received the product there was the product that I got. And to take things straight to the point. The product I got was not the product I was expecting. Turns out I may have been demanding too much from the HomePod mini. This lead me to having great expectations. Which lead me to having unfulfilled expectations. Which in return left me feeling completely underwhelmed by the home pod mini. What did I want from a device such as a smart speaker in the first place. Well, that’s simple enough. I was hoping to have a smart speaker that was capable of communicating with the apple assistant Siri. I was also hoping to have a Bluetooth speaker capable of connecting to my phone to listen to music and YouTube on. I was also hoping to have a portable speaker that I could unplug and move around the house as I pleased. So, what did I get with the HomePod I hear you eagerly asking? Well, something quite different. The first gut punch came when I released the fact that I had to have this device plugged into the ac outlet at all times. There goes the portability I was looking for. This device was now going to be anchored to the wall unless I was willing to reboot the device each time I wished to move it. This was immediately a clear inconvenience. To me this was also a clear move from Apple which revealed its underlying desire to have you install one of these devices in each of the rooms you wished to use them in. Well, unfortunately for Apple we are not all Warren Buffet who in real life would probably simply hammer throw this device out his office window in a heart beat. The second gut punch was the realisation that this device was in fact a wifi based speaker and not a Bluetooth speaker. What’s the downside to this I hear you ask? Well, connection issues of course. Wifi connections are great for steaming video connections as Bluetooth technology is currently incapable of handling the band width required to do this but when it comes to audio connections, something a smart speaker should be able to process with ease, there is no better connection than the reliability that Bluetooth has to offer. The HomePod mini is missing this. No Bluetooth connection means sometimes messy wifi connections. I have experienced this, especially when it comes to transferring YouTube to the speaker. It’s a neat trick, there’s no doubt about that. Simply tap your phone on top of the speaker and it should appear that your passing the audio from your phone to the speaker. But it’s an illusion. And not a very good one at that. The illusion is that you’re passing the audio from your phone to the device when what’s really happening is that you are forcing you HomePod to search and boot the video from the source and than start playing the video from where you have requested it to start. This is simply messy. Don’t get me wrong, sometimes the tap feature works flawlessly and when it does it is a thing of beauty but often there is a large delay in transferring the audio, resulting in a paused video or un-synced video vs audio issues. This was enough to frustrate me to the point of almost returning the product. The third and final gut punch is the fact that the volume control from my iPhone to the HomePod mini is all out of whack. This simple request should be the most basic of tasks. If I am listening to music on the HomePod mini and I’m using Apples very own music service to stream the music simply pressing up of the volume button should result in the volume being turned up on the speaker. But it’s never this straight forward. There is nearly always a lag. Or the device simply fails to change it’s volume altogether. Turning the volume down is also a problem. What your left with is a device that is disconnected from the world, doing pretty much whatever the hell it pleases. This was one of the more frustrating aspects of this device. HomePod mini was supposed to be a device that you as the user could control, instead what we got was a somewhat Lunky, laggy disconnected mess. I find myself asking what the hell happened? Now for the positives. The speaker looks neat and it sounds fantastic. The speaker is an Apple product, so it has that going for it and it is somewhat smart as it will allow you to access your internet of things throughout your house. But in saying this so will your phone. Unfortunately that’s about all the positives I can muster up. I’m simply disappointed by what Apple has produced and I’m normally an adamant Apple supporter. The problem with the HomePod mini is simple enough. Apple should have had the foresight to know what it’s customers wanted. Instead it held back certain features in what can only be suggested as a blatant attempt to bolster marketing options in the future. It shouldn’t have been so difficult. It shouldn’t have forced customers to purchase a product with obvious room for improvement. No one wants to buy room for improvement. So what did we want? This is simple enough as well. We wanted a Bluetooth and wifi speaker. That streams music flawlessly like so many other speakers are capable of doing these days. We want a speaker that can be moved around the house without having to connect the damn thing to the wall! And we want a speaker that can sync to our Apple TV’s without an issue and we want to be able to turn the volume up and down without having to get into a verbal bitch fight with Siri over the task. I don’t believe we are asking for too much? Simply don’t hold out on us. Anyways, that’s my thoughts on what should have been a top product. Sad really.
If you have experienced this issue, you will no doubt understand how frustrating it can be to have a disco in your computer room after the lights are off. I mean, if a disco is what you’re after, than fine, flash away keyboard! But you shouldn’t deny the fact that you may risk having an epileptic fit if you continue to ignore the fact that your Corsair keyboard needs some love!
Here’s how you fix those annoying flashing white lights on your Corsair keyboard. Step 1 - unplug the keyboard from the USB slot it is using. Step 2 - With the keyboard unplugged, press and hold the escape key. Step 3 - With the escape key still pressed plug the keyboard back into the USB slot. Step 4 - continue holding the escape key until the keyboard display flashes. Step 5 - while still holding the escape key unplug the keyboard and release the escape key. Step 6 - plug your keyboard in! Now the unintentional disco has ended and your keyboard should be behaving normally.
What could be better than an iPhone 12 for my birthday? That would be an iPhone 12 Pro Max of course. Thanks to my gorgeous wife I was fortunate enough to be on the receiving end of this amazing gift! Thanks needs to be given where thanks is due and now that I have given thanks to my goddess great gift giving wife I can move along to my early thoughts on the iPhone 12 Pro Max.
For perspective purposes I believe that should firstly mention that the phone I was utilising previously was the iPhone XS Max. I had been a user of the iPhone XS Max for over three years and it was, to put it mildly, quite simply an amazing device. If it wasn’t for the gift of the iPhone 12 Pro Max I would have probably held onto the XS Max for another couple of years. Although, it should be said that the XS Max was beginning to wear a little thin. For further perspective it should also be noted that I am an extremely heavy user of the iPhone. Now, when I say I’m a heavy user, I mean to say that I use my device continuously all day, even while at work. Over the years the iPhone has become a vital research tool that I find I cannot live without. The overall initial transfer experience from the XS Max to the 12 Pro Max took several hours to complete (account logins etc took up the majority of the time). But the initial set up of the iPhone 12 Pro Max was quick and easy. For example, the majority of the data accidentally transferred from my iPhone iCloud backup as I passed through a 5G hotspot on my way to work. My mobile data clearly showed this, a warning flashed up as I parked, “you have used 80% of your available data with 23 days left in your billing cycle”. I was surprised by both the excessive consumption rate and the speed at which the transfer had happened. Gone are the days of setting up each iPhone as a fresh device. This was the old way. Now I can safely say that transferring a 512 GB device from one to another can happen without hiccups using the 5G network to get the job done quickly. Happy days indeed. After having set up the device I began to play around with the newly improved camera features. The wide and ultra wide angle lens options was something I was looking forward to using in particular. After all, having the ability to get more image in your image is never a bad thing. Finally I could capture moments of action against grand back drops without having to sacrifice perspective. The wide and ultra wide lens are fantastic but the 12 Pro Max’s camera really shines in low light settings. This is a feature that most users will not even have to consider while operating the device as it happens automatically and when it does occur the difference between previous iPhone models is simply outstanding. This low light feature utilises lidar technology to better enhance areas of darkness as well has help to improve the auto focus in low light settings. The results of a low light photograph on an iPhone 12 Pro compared to the iPhone XS is extremely obvious. The iPhone 12 Pro camera is without a doubt one of the biggest advancements of the device yet. But I say yet because there is a development that is bigger still. The step up from 4 gigabytes of ram to 6 gigabytes of ram makes for a massive improvement in the phones ability to handle multiple tasks at any given moment. It has also improved many other aspects of the device such as giving the users the freedom to do just about anything web based any where you can get a decent cell phone connection. For example, I am a self confessed smart phone zombie walker, also known as a smombie, who likes to write and walk at the same time. Better yet you could say that I am a smombie developer as I enjoy walking, writing, developing and publishing all on the go. There is simply no better experience that the iPhone 12 Pro has to offer other than the ability to utilise web publishing apps on foot. This is something the XS really struggled with but something that the iPhone 12 Pro excels at. Finally, I can get my website published while out walking. This in return leads to greater productivity which is exactly what the iPhone 12 Pro is simply all about. Allowing users the ability to smombie publish is one of the greatest accomplishments that apple has yet achieved. Now the iPhone user can exercise and be productive all at the same time. Advancements and iPhone 12 Pro go hand in hand. My personal experience with devices would suggest that in the long run, it’s the simple improvements that add greatly to the users experience of any device. Charging your phone is one of the most basic yet important aspects of any phones usage. For Apple making this easier and more efficient was the next natural step. This improvement in efficiency has been achieved by MagSafe, Apples very own magnetic wireless charging system. Apples MagSafe charging is a massive improvement from the previous wireless charging options that Belkein or Mophie have offered. With this simple advancement there is now no need to concern yourself about wether your device is correctly centred over the charging pad. This was a problem on previous iPhones, uncentered devices led to poor charging experiences. MagSafe eliminates this problem as it will automatically centre your device ensuring the most efficient wireless charging experience available. Another simple fix for a simple problem. Now that’s Apple. And while we are on the subject of charging and batteries it should be said that the battery life on the iPhone 12 pro Max is especially exceptional. Even with heavy usage it is hard to knock a grunt out of this phone. For perspective, at the end of a day at work, where I have been using the iPhone all day for various deeds I am still able to return home with a three quarters full battery. Apple scores again. Overall the iPhone 12 Pro is massive step forward in the world of iPhones. Finally it is safe to confirm that Apple has bridged the gap between the smart phone and the personal computer. It is now possible to be a full time smombie and as a result the world of mobile productivity has been greatly improved. Thanks needs to be given where thanks is due. Thank you Apple. If your Nintendo Switch won’t turn on chances are you are having a bad day. This “Dark Switch” problem has happened to me several times and it is frustrating every time it happens. Some times it just seems as though your beloved Switch may never work again. It is than that the real fear begins to settle in as you realise you may have to shell out another $299 USD to get another. Never fear, every time this “Dark Switch” problem happens to my Switch I am able to get it working once again. This is how I have done it in the past. 1 - Make sure your Switch is plugged into the power source. This is the most important step. If it’s not plugged into the power the process won’t work. 2 - Press and hold the on/off button for 15 seconds. I used the timer on my phone to be sure the correct amount time was used. This step is called a “hard reset”. 3 - After the 15 seconds of time has passed release the on/off button and a second later press the on/off button again and release. 4 - Your Switch should now light up with the Nintendo title screen and be functioning normally. This “Hard Reset” process works most times. However there are times where this hasn’t worked for me. If this “Hard Reset” doesn’t work try removing the controllers from the side of the device. The last time my Switch went dark I found myself having to remove the controllers. It was only after removing the controllers and running through the hard reset process (without controllers attached) that I managed to get my Switch to turn back on. It must be said that it is always very relieving when the Switch turns back on. Another side note worth stating is that holding the on/off button for 15 seconds is uncomfortable, even more so because it feels as though you are doing nothing to help solve the problem. A third side note and perhaps the more important side note of them all is that after the Switch turned on I noticed that the right hand controller was completely drained of power, so perhaps this was the problem? Could it be that the cause of the “Dark Switch” problem was a flat controller? Who knows for sure? Hopefully Nintendo resolves this issue with future editions of the Switch or preferably with a downloadable update available to everyone. Nintendo’s devices have a history of being the most sturdy machines on the market but all of them are also known for having their own unique glitches. It is also good to note that sometimes when this “Dark Switch” problem happens you may have to repeat the “Hard Reset” process multiple times to get it to work. When in doubt, it is helpful to remember these simple rules. The first rule you need to follow is to make sure the Switch is connected to the power! I have forgotten to do this myself at times. If the “Hard Reset” still doesn’t work try removing the controllers and repeating the “Hard Reset” process. If it still doesn’t work make sure the power cord is functional, you can test this by using it on another Switch device or another device that is compatible with the USB C connector. If you don’t own another USB C device perhaps ask a friend if you can borrow theirs so you can test it. After having said all of the above my Switch has always turned back on. Sometimes it takes a while but eventually it works. Thanks and I hope this helps! |
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