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I am posting this because I am ashamed I just found out it existed, and I thought I would subject the rest of my Beehaw friends to the same experience! 😁

The instructions are super simple, Windows Key + . (period) opens up a little overlay which contains Emojis, GIFs, Clipboard, and some other stuff I'm not sure is useful.

Ill end this post with a question for you all:

-What was something you learned about technology FAR later than you SHOULD have?

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

IIRC this feature used to only be available in English locale and needed a registry hack to enable it on other locales. That might not be the case anymore

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

Works on German locale here out of the box now. (Win 10)

But I also learned about this feature pretty recently.

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

Super strange that something like this would be language specific, considering it's all Unicode characters behind the scenes, the emojis anyway yeah?

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

Sounds like maybe when they released the feature initially? Although I'm more thinking of the normal style of rollout where they trial a region first.

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

Has worked for a long time in my Danish version of Windows 10.