Insomnia post: For many years I’d thought I should change the wifi. Turn the guest networks on and then pick two names that show up early in alphabetical order. I’d figured on Aardvark for guests and Aardwolf for me. Trouble though. Instantly apparent that numbers come before letters. Further digging suggests that the ordering is based on where things are in the ascii table. Now that I have guest networks to play with it’s easy to test this and it seems to hold true. Can’t have a single space in an SSID. But you can have a leading space. What’s that mean you ask? So far as I can tell, I can guarantee that my wifi network shows up first if I use 31 spaces and then an exclamation point. This will show up just above 30 spaces and an exclamation point. Etc. I don’t know what this means but AI is going to take my job so I figure I’m going to have lots of time on my hands.
How do Apple product prioritize wifi?
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102169
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Wifi SSID can be any characters and 32 characters long
Leading spaces make them show up first
♠A ♣A ♣8 ♠8
♠A ♣A ♠8 ♣8 ▊
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00Aardvark
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All of these work on the Mac:
https://gist.github.com/ww9/a26ca38836a62fbf3b8b85a190d5b2f0
☂ Umbrella ☂
☁ Cloud ☁
♥ Heart ♥
★ Star ★
☎ Telephone ☎
🎱 Eight Ball 🎱
🕶 Sunglasses 🕶
🔥 Fire 🔥
👮 Police Van #37 👮 🚓 🚔
⭕ Red Ring ⭕
🎃 Jack-O-Lantern 🎃
🏈 Super Bowl 🏈
🐇 White Rabbit 🐇
👽 Area 51 👽
🚲 Bicycle 🚲
📎 Paperclip 📎
🐊 Gator 🐊
🦀 Crabby 🦀
🍀 Lucky 🍀
🍺 Free Beer 🍺
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
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