Re:What if we had Local-First Software?
by jacobwilliamroy on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:20PM
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Maybe you don't need to use the QR code to establish a connection? Instead you could just use the QR code to transmit whatever data the phone might need from the computer. If it's just a finance app, surely the data would be small enough to fit into a qr code, maybe show a series of codes if the data is really big?
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Re:What if we had Local-First Software?
by jlongster on Friday October 16, 2020 @09:25AM
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Fun idea! Just looked it up, 3kb is the max data in a QR code, and data _definitely_ gets bigger than that. If you import 100 transactions it'll probably be bigger than that. Also the syncing mechanism requires a two-way connection: they will communicate changes back and forth until they are synced up.