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7 Useful Things You Didn’t Know You Can Do in Your Linux Terminal (www.maketecheasier.com)
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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

QR could be helpful if you need to transfer a private, public or preahared encryption key. Relying on an OCR photo is going to make a mess because OCR relies on context to assist in character recognition. 1 character wrong in a huge random string will break it.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

I guess the issue isn’t as important if I am generating the code and I trust the code generation utility