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.
I agree, it’s a great idea. The limitation is that the maximum amount of data a QR code can hold is about 3kB. Assuming the encoded data is compressed - either mostly ASCII and compressed, or a custom serialization format referencing external lookup tables - you could reasonably fit around 10kB of debugging information into a single QR code. That’s not too shabby.
It should say the following in big easy to read letters:
Don’t Panic
(but you can panic a little bit, as a treat)
“Don’t tell me, tell the damn kernel!”
Seriously though I’m not sure how helpful this screen is. It only is going to happen if there is some serious problem. The first thing a user will do is look up what the screen means.
Putting a funny joke on the screen might make people laugh even though they are likely having a bad time.
I can’t read those messages anyway thanks to my Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses
Neat. Can you display a QR code in a tty?
Yes, couldn’t be easier.
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)I’d really like to see this on a modified kernel tbh.
That’s actually cool
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.
there are drugs that can make that happen
Now I want ASCII QR codes.
This is actually a really good idea. 🙏
this is not a stupid idea
I need that for real life, 😁
