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amiga386today at 10:53 AM2 repliesview on HN

If the site can detect that it can't use WebUSB, it can give you instructions on how to download and flash the mobile OS, not tell you to fuck off.

Compare: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/tokay/


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onlitoday at 10:56 AM

That's not an installer, that's a device page.

It's the specific functionality needed here that Firefox lacks that makes the /e/ page show the warning, unlike the lineage page that does not have the problem in the first place.

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herrherrmanntoday at 10:56 AM

Absolutely. This is handled very badly, and I was also surprised about the bad UX on that screen.