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Talking on the walkie simulates a keyboard (lemmy.zip)
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A picture of a text editor, with semicolons, newlines, lowercase L’s, and capital G’s having been entered in the midst of the document.
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[–] 40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What?

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I think they are saying that their handheld radio/walkie talkie is interfering with their wireless dell keyboard. Which is pretty cool tbh. Maybe they can use it in reverse to sniff the key presses.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Open an honest question. Does the average off the shelf wireless data transmission chipset that all kinds of shit bag manufacturers just shove into their products... Do those by default broadcast on some split spectrum now or do they just kind of pick a band like old crappy RC cars lol

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I really don't know. I am definitely not a radio expert.

    Logitech uses 2.4GHz in their receivers, but I dont know how that coexists with wifi bands..

    I would bet a lot of cheap keyboards still do the crappy RC car thing though.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have something similar happen on my car. My phone is Bluetooth but because it's Huawei, it's not fully recognised. So when I send a voice message with Wechat, I see the car displaying a "phone call" to number 0000 as long as a keep the button pressed.

    I'm wondering if this something similar going on here?

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