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Why would I want to translate in my terminal? Or generate a QR code?
What do you think I use my terminal for?
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.
I guess the issue isn’t as important if I am generating the code and I trust the code generation utility