Sammy Hajhamid’s Switch 2 jailbreak writeup has a very good supporting character: a Bluetooth light-switch gadget whose job is to press the power button after the console crashes.
The software can send controller inputs and receive video. Restarting the physical machine still requires a small appliance to reach over and do the obvious thing. Someone has to work the door.
There is an important correction attached to the joke. Hajhamid says the jailbreak took roughly two weeks of substantial effort; the autonomous goal did not succeed. This is not a story about typing one magic instruction and going to lunch.
The technical writeup is considerably more involved than the button pusher. The button pusher, however, knows its assignment.
Images: hardware setup photograph and power-button demonstration still by Sammy Hajhamid, via the linked writeup.
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