Click.

He never did connect to Nintendo's servers. He never will. This Switch is his own walled kingdom—a paradise for the homebrew corps.

The Switch sits in its dock, screen dark, waiting. Leo has already backed up his NAND. He's done the research. He knows that installing an NSP is like performing a ritual. You need the right tools: Tinfoil (the GUI version, not the command line—he's not a masochist), or DBI. He prefers DBI. It feels more like piloting a Survey Corps airship: technical, precise, dangerous.

He makes coffee. Then tea. Then regrets the coffee and switches back to water. The download hits 34%. A seeder from Brazil drops off. Panic. But two more from Germany appear. The swarm holds. He refreshes the forum thread. New comments: “Sigpatches v2.3.1 required.” He downloads those immediately, hoarding them like gas canisters.

He selects "Browse SD Card."