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you know the computer thing is it plugged in?
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I get someone made a hilarious mistake.
But why would you not even test the code before gluing them to all the tables?
Or before sending the code to be etched?
I think since its not so much btoken as pointing to a local file, I think they may have tested it on the one device they made it, so it worked...on that device.
They should have 100% tested it on other devices
Guess I'm showing my age then. Because the intended end use device is obviously a phone, I assume they used their phone to generate the qr, send it out to etch, and test the result. I can't use my phone for shit like that. To me that is much more a real screen type of job (generating the qr code, generating the gcode in lightburn, etc) done on a computer, instead of a tablet/phone
Some tasks belong on the medium screen, not the tiny one!
Or perhaps hire someone who knows what they're doing.
Might be guests just have to connect to the network first before scanning the code.. Easy solution. Before you order you'll just have to log into our WiFi and then scan our qr code.
Those exist (and are sort of annoying) but localhost literally points back to your own machine. No network setup is going to fix that (Short of running a proxy locally or messing with your hosts file. Not normal diner behaviour)
I created a QR generator website and you have no idea. I get emails from people saying they’ve printed the codes before discovering it goes to the wrong place (sometimes even to my own site!) and if I can fix it. No... check your codes before they go to print!
The funniest one I had caused me to get a huge spike of traffic on Christmas. It was so weird and left me clueless for weeks, until I got an email from somebody wishing to cancel a subscription.
I don’t sell subscriptions or anything at all!
Turns out somebody printed a QR code into a smartwatch instruction booklet that went straight to my site… The ad revenue was insane tho!
Might have been a temporary link (e.g., shortened URL) that passed tests initially but stopped working later on.
The browser says "localhost", so it would have had to stop working by suddenly redirecting to localhost...
Good catch, I didn't see that.
They did test it. On their machine.
Which implies he developed the menu on his phone, or he tried to scan it with a laptop webcam lmao
Maybe OP is lying
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