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This weekend I went to my dacha neighbor to ask a wifi password. All I had is a laptop with half-tuned Debian (do not use no smartphones). He gave me that QR an

This weekend I went to my dacha neighbor to ask a wifi password. All I had is a laptop with half-tuned Debian (do not use no smartphones). He gave me that QR and I could not read it because QR is not text. He is not a technician and I did not want to persist in my ask, so the situation ended up with no internets for me :( Please stop using human-unreadable protocols if opposite is possible.

volume 4y ago
> Please stop using human-unreadable protocols if opposite is possible how about use both
usr1106 4y ago
Of course using Debian you can decode that QR (don't remember how from the top of my head, but I remember decoding my EU COVID-19 certificate. Well, unless you don't even have a digital camera with some data path to your Debian.
ircop420 4y ago
If you have an integrated webcam there's a nifty package called 'zbar-tools' in debian repos that has a utilty named 'zbarcam' that identifies barcodes from your webcam and outputs them to standard output. Too little too late, I know, but nifty to have in the future.
- ris58h 4y ago
  So just install a program to read qr? Oh wait, I don't have internet.