#GrapheneOS installation on a Pixel phone is the easiest Android ROM I've flashed in the past 8 years. I used the WebUSB-based installation method. (Also discovered that my desktop has a USB-C port in the back, lol).
I am not a fan of web browsers turning into operating systems, but this is a good use case for WebUSB. I wonder if we can flash Debian-based operating systems images using this, directly from the official website. Removes the need for desktop apps like Balena Etcher.
@leon it says "use a browser like brave, chrome, or edge and enable windows runtime midi in settings."
Yeah, it's using either webusb or webserial which are only supported on Chromium-based browsers :(
Firefox decided to not implement these to APIs citing security concerns :(
#firefox #webusb #webserial
A lot of the development efforts (both creative and destructive) in web browsers in the last decade+ has been going into fostering the “web app” vision of the web, to the detriment of the “web of documents” vision. From the removal of native support for #RSS and #Atom to the introduction of JavaScript APIs like #WebUSB or the “Web Environment Integrity” attempt, nearly all work done on browsers has been in this direction.
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