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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Terrible idea, good luck logging in on desktop.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You know there's someone somewhere who would answer you with, "what's a desktop?"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Listen here, you little shit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

"what's a computer?"

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dammit I'd forgotten that awful commercial. Angry upvote.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm still in denial 😅

[–] ChickenAndRice 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I began feeling old when re**itors started calling their site an 'app'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can say Reddit it isn't blasphemous

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wait, you can't type emoji on your desktop? I feel sorry for you. 🥺

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have no idea how you could either. I don't know how to create them with s keyboard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Winkey + .

Works on Windows and some Linux distros by default

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox has an addon that opens up an emoji panel.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

For Windows 10/11, its win+; to open the emote window.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That doesn't work on the desktop last I checked.

But it's actually possible to set a password with emojis anyways (or at least for domain accounts). I successfully logged in on a VM using the Hyper-V window and pasting the emoji from the host. You can also name an account a single emoji and windows actually handles it decently. It's very likely to break a lot of programs though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its worked on desktops for years and works right now. As someone else pointed out "win+." works as well. Or maybe its supposed to be the only way it works and mine is bugged? Idk. I found it via trying to lock my desktop and mistyping.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It worked on my desktop

😁👍╰(°▽°)╯

Works even in notepad on Windows 11, lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I meant the lock screen, sorry. As far as I know it works everywhere except the lock screen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh, I never tried. There goes that option. Wonder if that was intention to prevent people from trying to use emoji passwords because they didn't trust windows to handle it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's probably just because the emoji panel is a program and the lock screen has very limited or any capabilities to run any programs. And trying to make it the emoji panel to function on the lock screen is pretty much a waste of time anyways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's Windows logo key  + . (period).

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-keyboard-tips-and-tricks-588e0b72-0fff-6d3f-aeee-6e5116097942

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Both work for me and I haven't messed with the keybindings for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Who needs Reddit when people like you are here on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Under Windows press Win+.