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you know the computer thing is it plugged in?
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Would this probably work if you connect to their Wi-Fi?
EDIT: I am smart, I promise
Localhost denotes the device itself. It would work if your phone were running a web server with the cafe's menu hosted on it
I almost said yes, but no, localhost is your own device. If it was a 192.168 ip it would be different.
But their subnet is 10.1.1.0/24
Crazy to me how rarely people use 10 over 192.168
It was weird, it was like one day I woke up and suddenly everybody else was using 192.168.1.0/24
I'll know it's the future when I start seeing
http://[fe80::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx]/
link fuckups.Listen, you’re in good company. I literally almost posted this and then I realized. Made my day that I wasn’t the only one.
Also, it’s amazing that someone made QR codes with a localhost URL.
You'd still go to localhost, so realistically: no.