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.
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.
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.