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absolutely brilliant solution for if your keyboard breaks and you REALLY need to send an email
Haha. Tangentially - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_Me_to_Heaven - "developed by Carrot Pop which measures the vertical distance that a mobile phone is thrown. Players compete against each other by seeking to throw their phones higher than others, often at the risk of damaging their phones."
It even works offline, just slam harder for “over the air” transmission. Has a shorter range though…
There is a video of a guy shouting into a can which was changing the pressure of a piezo ... I think they picked it up in the shack but didn't mess with it much more. Completely passive I think.
Haha. Tangentially - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_Me_to_Heaven - "developed by Carrot Pop which measures the vertical distance that a mobile phone is thrown. Players compete against each other by seeking to throw their phones higher than others, often at the risk of damaging their phones."
Why would apple ban this? Seems like a great way to increase sales!
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> on the shift (?) key. Disabling Windows accessibility features is an indication of anti-social behavior.
? even on one's own computer? I don't follow It would follow from your statement that not disabling the screen lock is also anti-social.
It's something that would be easy to trigger accidentally if you are using the shift keys to play pinball or type morse code.
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And/or an easily targetable forehead :)
I think this is doable; and practice makes perfect. I can enter passcode on my apple watch with my nose. It’s the smaller apple watch model. Nose is quite big.
This reminds me of that section in the book Cryptonomicon, where our hero is programming on a laptop that he knows is being spied upon using Tempest and probably more, and is using clandestine input via morse code on the shift (?) key. I really enjoyed that book.
Welp, I know what I'm reading on my next flight :)