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.
IMO there are exceptionally few cases where it is acceptable for a QR code to not be immediately adjacent to a textual representation of the same content.
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)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
the kernel has parts being rewritten in rust afaik so perhaps there’s less resistance than you think
There’s been a lot of drama with that recently, apparently some of the C devs are making it very hard to get code merged in for rust support, to the point where one of the rust devs is stepping back as a maintainer because of frustrations with some of the C devs
Edit: see this Mastodon post from someone from the Asahi Linux project: https://vt.social/@lina/113045455229442533
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.
It should say the following in big easy to read letters:
Don’t Panic
(but you can panic a little bit, as a treat)
So long and thanks for all the fish
“Don’t tell me, tell the damn kernel!”
