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What happens when your phone can't do that? I use a flip phone. It can't scan QR codes despite having a camera
by mghackerlady 5mo ago
What happens when your phone can't do that? I use a flip phone. It can't scan QR codes despite having a camera
- tom1337 5mo agothen google has decided that you no longer should be able to use GMail (for now) and the internet (in the future)
- mghackerlady 5mo agoeh, they gave up on trying to control usenet and haven't touched gopher so I'll just go there
- Aurornis 5mo agoApparently it’s just an SMS URI. It’s not something specific to a phone. It’s just a convenient method to enter your phone number.
- croes 5mo agoTo enter their phone number because you sent an SMS to them. So if there are any costs for sending this SMS it’s on you.
- DANmode 5mo agoThere weren’t any infrastructure costs to sending the first SMS ever, there shouldn’t be any remaining for the consumer today unless you’re a real unfortunate soul.
- jeroenhd 5mo agoExchanging SMS messages with any sort of reliability (like not losing your messages when you go through a tunnel) requires running an SMSC. That costs money. Furthermore, carriers still charge each other for exchanging SMS traffic, though many of them just charge the difference rather than sending each other bills. This approach is quite costly if you're out of the country, though. Sending an SMS is hit and miss when roaming in foreign enough networks, and each SMS can cost you a significant amount for exchanging 10 characters. Even receiving SMS messages far away from home can cost you money, which is a pain if you have a relative that could never get used to modern messaging services.
- DANmode 5mo agoAre you one of the unfortunate souls I mentioned?! PS Has the bio trap snared any robots yet?!
- b40d-48b2-979e 5mo agoThere weren’t any infrastructure costs to sending the first SMS ever, Hah. Someone wasn't alive for the 90s.
- DANmode 5mo agoSomeone didn’t read all of the words ^_^ Infrastructure costs were marginal, near 0, because SMS was just 140 bytes of text stuffed into already-occurring network traffic between phone<->telco.
- chickensong 5mo agoI did some work with Verizon and an IoT customer was asking about SMS pricing and the VZ guys laughed and said it cost less than a penny for every 1M SMS.
- b40d-48b2-979e 5mo agothe VZ guys laughed and said it cost less than a penny for every 1M SMS. Didn't stop them from charging $0.10 per text message in the 2000s and earning a fortune.
- chickensong 5mo agoYep, bastards!
- DANmode 5mo agoand that’s only because an accountant demanded a cost of goods sold! Continuing that behavior until everybody’s grandma had iMessage, is a large portion of why I don’t trust a telco! (Not building out the full range of rural etc network they promised to, while cashing all of the government subsidies, struck me wrong as well.)
- Aurornis 5mo ago> So if there are any costs for sending this SMS it’s on you. It's a $0/month e-mail service. If the price of entry is a single text message, I think that's fair.
- croes 5mo agoWe both know they harvest the data and still they are too cheap to pay for the SMS
- Gigachad 5mo ago[dead]
- user_7832 5mo agoTechnically if you can copy paste the qr code into any qr reader website and manually do it, I think it's possible? Assuming it doesn't change the code very rapidly every few seconds.
- jdiff 5mo agoWould be a bit silly for it to rapidly change given that manual action must be taken after scanning even on well supported devices.
- dotancohen 5mo agoMy S24 Ultra no longer has rear cameras, they no longer work after the phone fell from a table. I can not scan QR codes either. So many companies - such as electric car charging stations - require this without considering failure modes and alternative workflows.
- tomjen3 5mo agoThey properly do, but then conclude that it would be more costly to implement and create those workarounds than not getting the extra 0.01% of users.
- tardedmeme 5mo agoThe elder gods have declared that you have been unpersoned... until you buy a new phone. Also try squeezing the phone at various points to see if it pops the internal connector back in. You can find a repair video to see where the connector is.
- dotancohen 5mo agoInteresting. Each of the rear cameras has a separate connector. It's not like the older Samsung phones where all the cameras on on a separate daughterboard with a single connector. I wonder if I could find a camera app that lets me select a different camera at app startup. The built in app closes with an error, unless I long click it and select "Take a selfie". Ha, it worked! After opening in selfie mode, I can select manual mode in the stock camera app and use a different rear camera. But if I accidentally use the wrong settings, the whole app closes with an error.