VCard and RSS as an alternative to social media

Re:VCard and RSS as an alternative to social media by safety1st on Saturday March 23, 2024 @05:51AM (#39798682)

Wish I could give ten upvotes for this, there's nothing I like better than a five minute solution to a problem that has plagued me for years.

My problem for years has been that people still ask me for business cards even though I stopped carrying them in like 2005.

Turns out there is a package called qrencode in the Debian repositories so this is as simple as:

$ sudo apt install qrencode

$ qrencode -o linkedin-qrcode.png 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/myprofile'

Plus a few others, personal website, company website etc. All copied into a Google Drive folder as you suggest.

Next time someone asks, boom pop out the qr code.

Brilliant. Thank you.

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Re:VCard and RSS as an alternative to social media by ramses0 on Saturday March 23, 2024 @06:47AM (#39798910)

Try the following:

    echo "RSVP by Text"
    qrencode -t UTF8 'SMSTO:212-555-1212:Thank You! RSVP for (name, number of adults, number of kids)'

    echo "RSVP by Email"
    qrencode -t UTF8 "mailto:[email protected]?subject=RSVP: Some Event&body=[ ] - Yes      [ ] - No"

    echo "Directions"
    qrencode -t UTF8 "1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington, D.C. 20500"

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Re:VCard and RSS as an alternative to social media by jraph on Saturday March 23, 2024 @11:03AM (#39800460)

Plasma lets you generate a QR Code by copying something to the clipboard and clicking on the QR Code button. It is able to display the QR Code, and the QR Code happens to be draggable.

It seems we are very close to add a Save button there, which would be incredibly convenient :-)

That might be for a future contribution.

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Re:VCard and RSS as an alternative to social media by yonatan8070 on Saturday March 23, 2024 @12:58PM (#39801316)

It also has an option to do the same for Wi-Fi networks, which is pretty cool

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