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Ugh. Why can't we have both? First of all it takes a shitton of steps to scan a QR code if you don't have WeChat. On a default Android device you have to click
by dheera 5y ago
Ugh. Why can't we have both?
First of all it takes a shitton of steps to scan a QR code if you don't have WeChat. On a default Android device you have to click 7 or 8 times to get into the QR scanner thingy inside Google Lens. I carry a 2nd phone with WeChat and I can scan things in 0 seconds flat, but most people don't have it around here in the US.
And then many restaurants' QR menus just redirect you to their website with a terrible experience, and sometimes no pictures.
And then it's annoying as hell to try to read a phone screen in daylight outdoors.
If you can print a QR menu just print the damn menu also. Put the QR code on the menu cover for people who really want that.
These days I often just ask wait staff what they have because I don't want to look at my phone.
- snovv_crash 5y agoNormal camera app scans QR codes...
- dheera 5y agoI have to swipe to the rightmost tab in normal camera app and then hit Google Lens and then hover over it while trying to top the tiny tooltip that pops up with my huge finger. Horrible experience. It should just open the web page with zero taps if I point at a QR code in ANY camera mode, even portrait or panorama or movie or whatever the last mode I was on. I shouldn't have to tell it "I'm going to scan a QR code", it should always be looking for one, because it's computationally very, very cheap.
- NamTaf 5y agoOn the iPhone, you literally just open the camera app, point it at the QR code, and a drop-down notification will prompt opening it in the browser. Thus, it is absolutely looking for one always as you describe.
- meheleventyone 5y agoSame on my OG Pixel.
- snovv_crash 5y agoAnd same on my mid-range 2020 Samsung. I think GGP is chasing windmills here...
- dagmx 5y agoThe default camera app on both AOSP and iOS phones will scan QR codes, so it's really just a single step.
- jbluepolarbear 5y agoYes, but you still need to click the link, open in the browser. I don’t trust the average restaurant to make correct security decisions on their online menu/payment system. So pass.
- PretzelPirate 5y agoMost restaurants I’ve been to have their QR code link to a PDF and not an ordering website with payments.
- jbluepolarbear 5y agoThat’s a worse user experience.
- Spivak 5y agoThan what? A printout of the same PDF? I mean if you prefer paper then yeah, I get it but it's such a small difference.
- PretzelPirate 5y agoIt’s much better. It’s easy for people to see even with visual impairments. Everyone sets up their phone to accommodate their own needs. You can always take the time to ask for a menu and I’m sure someone will bring you one, but it’s my opinion that you’re making too big of a deal out of something that’s such a small part of the dining experience.
- jbluepolarbear 5y agoHow does a pdf of a menu help a vision impaired person?
- dragonwriter 5y ago> First of all it takes a shitton of steps to scan a QR code if you don't have WeChat Not really, on most real devices. > On a default Android device you have to click 7 or 8 times to get into the QR scanner thingy inside Google Lens. Perhaps, on stock Android with no manufacturer special apps. But the Samsung, Google, and LG Camera apps, at least, have “point at a QR code and the camera reads it”, so it takes as many clicks as opening the Camera app.
- dheera 5y agoHm, I have a Pixel 5 and it most certainly doesn't do that. Nothing happens. https://i.imgur.com/kjFEwiR.jpg https://i.imgur.com/kjFEwiR.jpg Then again, starting about 5 weeks ago it also stopped responding to "OK Google" and 3 weeks ago it stopped announcing turn-by-turn directions during GPS navigation so I guess this is the state of tech in 2021 :-/ (Definitely don't want an Apple device though, massive privacy issue for me to use a closed source kernel and that I can't easily introspect and MITM SSL requests on to see what data is being sent about me, I do like Android for the fact that I can more or less much hook into any part of the OS and execute custom code to monitor what the hell apps are doing behind the curtain, and even give them fake-but-realistic sensor data to even further protect my privacy.)
- dzhiurgis 5y agoHow do you do MITM SSL when pretty much every secure app use key pinning.
- dheera 5y agoExactly, on iOS it's not easy, on Android it's far easier because the OS listens to you, not Apple or Google, and it's far easier to root Android than it is to jailbreak iOS, or run an open source fork like LineageOS and run the same apps on that. You can (a) decompile the app, mod it, recompile it, sign it, and then execute it (b) modify the OS to not care about app signatures (c) bypass it with Xposed hooks, ... lots of ways.
- tluyben2 5y agoThis must be a very personal experience as I recognize none of this and never heard this from anyone either. I think you just simply need a newer phone. I have a cheap Samsung and I live in a place where the sun is always on and usually no clouds, and yet I walk kilometers every day doing work on my phone. No issue reading anything. And like the others say: the camera app automatically and very robustly pics up qr codes when you wave it past it. I like qr codes anyway: I don't like dead tree printing or touching stuff that is not mine but had a million hands on it (I had that before covid).
- teddyh 5y ago> I think you just simply need a newer phone. “yeah I'll get right on that” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpQQohcHk9Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpQQohcHk9Q
- teddyh 5y agoI found the original: https://www.patreon.com/posts/just-buy-new-one-16961122 https://www.patreon.com/posts/just-buy-new-one-16961122
- vmception 5y agoon iPhone it is a single gesture from a locked phone to scan the QR code I also really love how many restuarants put a QR code on the receipt that opens Apple Pay