It turns out that emoticons are considered a symbol, so they can beef up your passwords and make them more secure in combination with letters and numbers. Here’s how.
    • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      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.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        It worked on my desktop

        😁👍╰(°▽°)╯

        Works even in notepad on Windows 11, lol

        • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
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          11 months ago

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

          • WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social
            1·
            11 months ago

            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.

      • WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social
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        11 months 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.

    • HamartiogonicEnglish
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      11 months ago

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