VirtualBox USB Support, usbscale on Fedora Linux 37

Wow, really? Have to launch virtualbox as root to use USB devices (at least under Monterey). Once done, getting usbscale up and running took more steps than I’d expected, too:

$ sudo yum group install "Development Tools"
$ sudo yum install -y autoconf automake libtool systemd-devel
$ git clone https://github.com/erjiang/usbscale.git
$ git clone https://github.com/libusb/libusb.git
$ cd libusb
$ ./bootstrap.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ../usbscale
$ make
$ ./usbscale # after attaching the scale to the virtual machine

This is for the Stamps.com model 510 5 lbs postal scale that came free with a subscription years ago. Code: usbscale; libusb. Software: VirtualBox.

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