So yesterday I saw a @postmarketOS toot about their web flasher for Android devices, and I thought - how hard would it be to make one for L5? Turns out - not hard at all. Here it is booting Jumpdrive.
Some caveats:
- requires permission setting on Linux 😔 I may work out-of-box on other platforms though
- it's sloooow, but there's hope: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1271
- asks 5 times to allow access to the device. Could go down to 3, but no less than that.
@opensourceopenmind @postmarketOS Yes, it needs WebUSB & WebHID and therefore Chromium. Dunno how well Chromium plays with Flatpak though, sounds like it could be fiddly.
I'm not sure I'm convinced about convenience being so much better. Definitely on Windows or macOS, but since uuu is packaged across distros it would seem to me that the option with the least friction is usually to just grab it from the repos. I'm willing to accept that I'm the weird one though 😜
@dos @postmarketOS asking 5x sounds like a feature not a bug.
Speaking as someone who occasionally accidentally chooses the wrong option, and flustered by that, might repeat such a mistake!
@datum @postmarketOS The thing is that the permission popup needs to be triggered by a user gesture. Not a dealbreaker, but makes designing a proper UI around it somewhat awkward - and I'm afraid that having so many buttons and popups in the process could actually *increase* the chance of just clicking through them all mindlessly 🤪
@dos
you are lost in a maze of twisty confusing pop-ups, all alike
@dos @postmarketOS This would be more convenient than the current method. Would this need Chromium (not Firefox) and a native package (not flatpak)?