Didn't see edit 4 before replying originally - might try a bash script instead of generic posix shell, thank you

I have been surprised how much progress has been possible by guiding the chat bot through 1 step at a time (and occasionally humanly digging through a problem it refuses to handle)

If successfully implemented, my design would rely on users screen recording or downloading the video with the files in it (or recording a video with a camera pointed at the screen if even more successful)

Because you're right that decoding the QR codes definitely does seem too slow to do it in real time

This seems too purely proof of concept and far from passing real world tests tbh, I'd have to see proof to believe it works. I am surprised nobody has made something like my idea sooner though, keep thinking maybe I'll find it

Intended to be usable, but it's for putting small files in the corner of a video

Fuck off, I didn't ask for a working script, I asked for a difference between how Debian and Devuan (or bash and dash) would handle the functions here. Blocking you now

Keeping python in mind then. For now I think I've gotta keep trying with a shell script because it can fit the whole decoder in 2 QR codes (1 for each step, extracting+reassembling) with zbarimg+ffmpeg as the only dependencies

Maybe I should use python for the main version but keep a shell script mini decoder option available

Thank you for the reply. Python keeps being suggested, what would you suggest if I end up changing rails here?

Thank you. For the record, the main goal of using a shell script instead of a python script is maximum portability via the QR code itself. Instead of telling someone to scan a QR code and download hundreds of megabytes of python environment, all most users will have to download for my decoder is zbarimg (because everyone already has ffmpeg)

If I can get it working, anyway

Is it fun to waste people's time repeating the same dumbass lies they've already said they're angry about to get yourself blocked?

I'm here 5 days later to say, while too lazy to read the context, you're probably missing what I was talking about which is the LoRa spec itself being proprietary

I'm less angry about it now because I simply bought shares of semtech, the company courtrooms will force me to pay for lies about being "open source" every time I buy a meshtastic device

Still pretty angry though