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You can use emojis as credentials (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You can totally use emojis as passwords. You can probably even make this a policy at your company.

Edit: I thought this was an obvious enough joke, but just to clear things up: Only do this if you hate your company and everyone working there.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You can add emojis to your wifi SSID. I do not recommend it for compatibility reasons, though. Your printer might not like it.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbf, fuck printers

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Instructions unclear, p...aper stuck in tray 1

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

lp0 on fire

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

PC LOAD LETTER

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

That'll make setting up your wifi from the command line all kinds of fun.
Even my SSID with , and : in it stumps the Debian installer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In my experience, several devices don't display the emoji as a correct icon (instead show the rectangle "tofu"), but they still work with it.

Source: am using an emoji with some normal characters on SSID

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's good! That's best case scenario, honestly. With how awful printers are, I wouldn't be surprised if some just crashed.