Its honestly a REALLY good idea. Still pisses me off that windows has had a QR code for years but it just goes to a generic support page.
That said: There are plenty of environments where a QR code is not viable. Secure environments where you cannot have a camera is one. But also most server rooms where the KVM has been abused for years and is covered in filth. What you can squint and scratch down on a piece of paper and what your phone can process are two very different things.
Linux so easy enough to have both code and text but I do have concerns on the broader impact of this being normalized.
If I uderstand it correctly, this feature will be tied to build flags anyway, so server distros can have this turned off in their kernel.
It should say the following in big easy to read letters:
Don’t Panic
(but you can panic a little bit, as a treat)
I can’t read those messages anyway thanks to my Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses
Neat. Can you display a QR code in a tty?
Yes, couldn’t be easier.
https://github.com/Lenivaya/qrrs
Here’s a tool that already works - and it’s written in Rust!
Too bad the c maintainers will make up mumbo jumbo to not include it
Anime penguin girl describing the error using interpretative dance when?
(I was just trying to make a silly joke but it’s not like I don’t want it)I’d really like to see this on a modified kernel tbh.
I know that picture is a QR code, I can even scan it, but I just can’t stop thinking it’s one of those magic eye pictures.
Now I want ASCII QR codes.
This is actually a really good idea. 🙏
this is not a stupid idea