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For Android, there's the Heliboard keyboard which is open-source and really good, doesn't compare with other FOSS keyboards I've used. My only gripe is that it doesn't do multilingual suggestions, you have to keep switching the keyboard language to get the correct suggestions.
Yeah that's pretty fucking bad. Fucking hate how the corpos have been censoring via autocorrect. And in particular how mundane of shit gets censored. Talking about questioning your sexuality‽ Talking about harmless drugs‽ Insulting Australia‽ We shouldn't be "protected" from "accidentally" saying such things.
pigs out here catching strays
Motorola is releasing a phone with graphene OS... That's all I'm saying.
It's also like $2000
And made by Lenovo.
Please let Fairphone and Graphene have a kid.
That would be so amazing
But how do you spell "removed"? ( 😆 )
I do feel like autocorrect has been getting consistently worse over the last 2 years.
Longer than that. I’ve had it shut off for the last 4 years because it actively made things worse and has been ineffective at best. Now it doesn’t underline spelling mistakes probably 70% of the time. Highlighting misspelled words hoping for a quick suggestion help is a gamble if it recognizes the misspelled word at all.
I remember it working fairly decently a decade ago, but it’s been a downhill slide for a long time now.
I also stopped using autocorrect awhile back and don’t miss it. At all
+1 to this. Tried a bunch of FOSS keyboards and switched to HeliBoard because of it! Wouldn't you know, autocorrect experience improved 😮💨
Microsoft used to have a word flow keyboard I absolutely adored and they killed it. I miss it terribly.
SwiftKey! I loved that keyboard and you're right, they killed it.
The OG Swype was the best. Used it until it was too old to be installed on current gen android
Still miss it every day I have to use a phone keyboard. Even swiping this text had me re"type" multiple times that I didn't have to do back in swype days
Using standard gboard, but swiftkey wasn't really better in my experience
No the curved thing. The corner was the space bar, the keyboard bend around that corner. You could one hand it better than you can two-hand a modern one on big phones. I LOVED it. I am still violently angry it’s gone.
Just talking about it…wait a second. I need to wipe out a family.
The full list: https://swipeblocked.com/list
Created by the one who discovered the list, Derik Kauffman
Wow there are a lot of prepositions that one must never come in/on/at/down
what the fuck
I know I'm naive about some things, but this is just.. the fuck. changing the word before the most recently swiped word, because together it forms a blocked phrase? that's just fucked up.
I'm ashamed to say that I truly never thought about the keyboard no longer being safe from interference.
like okay I get that it won't suggest harmful phrases, sure, maybe I can accept that. but to retroactively edit your inputs.. that's just fucked up.
It's consistently done that using names with unusual spellings since nearly day 1 - I fought tooth and nail with autocorrect on my iPhone 3GS and finally turned the damned thing off.
NGL, it slowed me down a whole bunch, but also forced me to take my word game up, which I kinda like, actually.
I've not used auto-correct for years, I feel it's the way to go if one wants to avoid this whole word edit fiasco.
I fucking hate the policing of words by admin dickheads and corporate censorship algorithms online. Policing other people’s language flies in the face of every freedom and right people have fought and died for. Also the internet is the easiest place to ignore people, give people who care the tools to filter their feeds and comments instead of blanket banning everyone, cause it might upset some vocal minority
Who the fuck do these people think they are, deciding what we can and cannot say, what we can and cannot express?
I never really understood the whole "No really, we HAVE to guillotine them all" attitude of the 18th century French until I met tech bros.
Yeah I'm not sure what ever gave you the idea that free speech was a thing on big tech platforms.
Stuff like this simply isn't new, they just developed the technology while pretending to care about concepts like being against homophobia, racism, bigotry, etc.
Just wait until you read about The Terror! You'll discover the vast majority of victims were just regular people. The odds are much better that you will be guillotined than an Apple tech bro. That neighbor that you pissed off 8 years ago will see to it.
Funny how bootlickers always talk about the 40,000 of The Terror, conflate it with the Revolution entirely, and never ask themselves how many the aristocracy killed.
I wish all phone keyboards had a easy toggle to turn off all “smart autocorrect” features so it types exactly what you entered with no changes when you want to
On 4th of June, 1989, in Tiananmen square, Beijing, nothing particularly interesting happened.
Apple’s autocorrect is the best example of enshittification that exists to date. It was exponentially better 10-15 years ago.
I suppose that explains somewhat why the stupid swipe on this fucking phone is so dog shit.
I need a Linux phone. :/
We all need a good Linux phone we can completely control the software on.
It's probably good if my phone doesn't call my mother a cunt while telling her I'm bringing the cocaine by default, but I should be able to toggle that.
just give it to me, and i’ll bring that cunt her blow
