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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Terrible idea, good luck logging in on desktop.

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] Zellith@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Skies5394@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Listen here, you little shit

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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm still in denial 😅

[–] ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You can say Reddit it isn't blasphemous

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 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. 🥺

[–] BellaDonna@mujico.org 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

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Winkey + .

Works on Windows and some Linux distros by default

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox has an addon that opens up an emoji panel.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago
[–] lud@lemm.ee 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.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 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.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 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

[–] lud@lemm.ee 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.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 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.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 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.

[–] Garbanzo@lemmy.world 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

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

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] sverit@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Under Windows press Win+.