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[–] 34 points 5 days ago* (3 children)
  • [–] 31 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    "Browsers" but it's all just Chromium under the hood.

    And afaik Firefox and its forks also have the API required for this to work. (Communicate over USB)

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  • [–] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Firefox explicitly doesn't support webUSB because they consider it harmful: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#webusb

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  • [–] -3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Just change your useragent to Chrome and it will work

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  • [–] 13 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    I'd be very surprised if that actually works. To talk to hardware they would have to use Web Bluetooth or Web USB, neither if which Firefox supports.

    Unless there is some other API I'm unaware of.

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  • [–] -4 points 5 days ago* (2 children)

    Just use Brave just for that one single purpose. I do it for my keychron keyboards.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Fuck Brave. Their CEO is a homophobic transphobe asshole who actively donates money to help take away peoples rights, they are shills for a bunch of AI and crypto BS that is inbuilt in the browser, and they at least used to steal affiliate links.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (2 children)

    I am aware, only using the browser to update your firmware means they don't get paid was my point.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago*

    i really hate these things, because they always require chrome. i can't update or customize the firmware in my keyboard because it's only done with fucking via and that barely even works in chrome as it is. my previous keyboard was just QMK and i wrote the firmware myself, updating was just a quick flash from my terminal.

    please just let us flash firmwares the so-called "hard way" too, these browser tools suck shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    They used to support it, but they gave it up. So I no longer support them.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago

    Finally. I had to go to a friends house to update my Ultimate 2

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  • For me, the commend 8bitdo recommends to set it up for the first time (creating a udev rule) was improperly formatted and didn't work. When I created the file it was trying to create manually and then did the other steps, it still didn't detect my 8bitdo receiver.

    So here at least, it didn't even work on Chrome. I like you 8BitDo and this is an interesting workflow, but like whose idea was it to present this as a solution.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Good news. Haven't looked into it in ages but is there anyway to map the extra buttons on Linux yet?

    Last time I looked it was still Windows only

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    better than nothing. I keep ungoogled chromium just for webusb stuff anyway

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    I have a Pro 2, so unfortunately no support through that site yet. It's perfectly possible, but annoying, to passthrough USB to a Windows virtual machine, which is what I've done in the past.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    Nice. I needed that software on my previous controller when the non-hall effect triggers got busted and needed to adjust sensitivity. I don't tend to use macros, though.

    Now if Launchbox can make a Linux friendly version (or I guess browser based version) I'll have literally nothing I miss from Windows left.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    I really could've used this when updating my controller to support Switch 2, I had to grab someone's Windows laptop for that lol. Really nice that it exists now.

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    One of my favorite company.

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