Power Profiler needs dialout

I tried to use Power Profiler v3.4.3 on Debian bullseye and it didn't work. The profiler app found the device, connected and nothing happened, no controls appeared.

After turning on Verbose Logging in About, it showed these

15:19:32.377	[nrfdl][error](15:19:32.369) USBLister: failed to send setup packet NORDIC_SEM_VER_REQUEST
15:19:32.378	[nrfdl][info](15:19:32.369) USBLister: failed to send setup packet NORDIC_DFU_INFO_REQUEST
15:19:32.378	[nrfdl][info](15:19:32.370) try to map FTDI to segger device

The solution is to add yourself to the dialout group by

sudo adduser username dialout

This error doesn't usually happen because most developers will enable dialout anyway, but now I started with a clean computer and couldn't find out why it doesn't work. I couldn't google any of those USBLister errors, so I would like them to be here for others to see. Also, it could do with a better warning that is shown even without verbose logging.

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