It should say the following in big easy to read letters:
Don’t Panic
So long and thanks for all the fish
So sad it had to come to this
(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.
https://github.com/Lenivaya/qrrs
Here’s a tool that already works - and it’s written in Rust!
Too bad the c maintainers will make up mumbo jumbo to not include it
the kernel has parts being rewritten in rust afaik so perhaps there’s less resistance than you think
There’s been a lot of drama with that recently, apparently some of the C devs are making it very hard to get code merged in for rust support, to the point where one of the rust devs is stepping back as a maintainer because of frustrations with some of the C devs
Edit: see this Mastodon post from someone from the Asahi Linux project: https://vt.social/@lina/113045455229442533
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.
QR code takes you to:
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Shhhh THEY’LL HEAR YOU
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
That’s actually cool
This is actually a really good idea. 🙏
this is not a stupid idea
I need that for real life, 😁
