• dustyData@lemmy.world
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    Why does every mobile keyboard developer have some controversial shit? I just want to text in peace.

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        It looks neat but what an absolutely stupid take from a keyboard author

        Because it trusts you to write what you meant to write.

        Butch if I didn’t let it correct me I’d have to actually mook st the keyboard and who the fuck wants to do thatm.

        Phones are tiny and humans are clumsy. I absolutely never mean what I type, as you can see above.

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        The only thing I dislike of heliboard is their swipe function requires Google binaries. Most FOSS keyboards either lack some feature I use or are immersed in wild controversies.

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          And the implementation is nowhere as good as gboard.

          Futo’s keyboard isn’t much better for slide to type. I find myself switching keyboards back to gboard when I’m not using voice to text or two thumbs.

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            12 hours ago

            I mean, I can’t complain about HeliBoard’s swiping feature, especially considering the alternatives.

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        8 hours ago

        I know both are kinda terrible but isn’t a facist-developed GPL software better than Google software

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          Just use wireguard and block all connections that aren’t going over VPN. Ezpz

          Also if you’re on a locked down device then you’re already feeding them plenty of data

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            Using a VPN does absolutely nothing to protect from their apps scraping up and phoning home telemetry.

            It’s still YOUR phone. It’s still YOUR GPS location. It’s still YOUR data connection. A VPN is not a catch-all solution to privacy.

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              21 hours ago

              VPN to your box somewhere else with proper filtering.

              I figured that was obvious

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                18 hours ago

                That’s literally not how VPNs work nor are you aware of what you’re talking about.

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                  You literally don’t know what you are talking about.

                  You’re like a computer novice that is only aware of commercialized VPN products thinking you know what you’re talking about but unaware that the commercialized products are open source things that anyone can run, and you’re only paying for the company to run them on their boxes.