I’m genuinely surprised it still exists! I remember when you were forced to use it to get the Amazon app, or the Kindle app, or whatever. I thought it was gone years ago.

That’s what I meant, my bad.

Galaxy is a Motorola Samsung brand. I have a Pixel 7 Pro. I don’t know if it’s limited to pixel phones. It might be.

I don’t know what phone you have, but I have a Pixel 7 Pro, and I can simply long press the home key to invoke the “Circle to Search” command, and that will identify any QR code on the screen and overlay a link that I can tap.

Me too, honestly.

Since you mentioned VSCode. I wanted to bring up VSCodium. It’s a fork of VSCode with no telemetry. Yes, it’s a full fledged IDE, and probably too much if you just want to markdown editor, but I use it for much more than that, and I think it’s great.

I did, and you failed to explain, so I reiterated the question. My conclusion, now, is you’re either just to dense to understand this conversation, or two prideful to admit a mistake. Either way you’re not worth talking to.

Why did you say “no”?

You said “No, not true”, then argued precisely in favor of OPs ideas with both of your numbered points. That doesn’t seem a little weird to you?

why is protection from malicious apps from the play store being performed on the phone instead of in the store?

Because it’s behavior-based. You can’t tell how software will behave until you run it. And running it means having real human interactions with the software and the environment on your phone. It’s literally impossible to predict what software will do just by reading the code. It’s the Halting Problem. I’m no expert though, and I’m kind of assuming.

And I’m sure that some exploits are detected in the source code by the Play Store when they’re done naively and obiviously.

Visible trial SIM then? They have free one-week trials.

Ah, for some reason I assumed you meant Fennec in your original comment. I see now that person you replied to mentioned both.

What URL do you put in Obtanium?

I found what I think is the source for the fennec patches to the Firefox source code, but there’s no releases page. F-Droid still has v133. Where are you finding more recently updated releases?

That does appear to be the source, but Obtanium needs a Releases page, as far as I can tell, and people only seem to talk about it in relation to github.

I found a YouTube video that says it can install from all sorts of places. I’m going to watch it to get the gist of it.

What is the Fennec URL? I’ve been searching for 5 minutes with both DDG and Google and can’t find it. “Fennec” is a really overloaded word. All I can find is the F-Droid page, not the source. I wanted to try Obtanium for the first time.

Thanks for the recommendation! It looks really good so far. Well, except for the swipe typing. If they can perfect swipe typing, I’d be so impressed. Even Gboard does it terribly. I noticed they have a public website to help train swiping. That’s neat. https://swipe.futo.org/

After I tap a suggestion , if I hit a punctuation key , it leaves a space after the word . (like in that sentence .) Gboard removes the space automatically, and Heliboard doesn’t add it to begin with.

Turns out, you can turn off automatic spaces entirely, and that feels better.

There’s a github for issue tacking and a Discord for discussions. These are good signs. I really like what I see so far.

It was eerie. I’m just telling you what my honest impression was. The thread was “What’s your favorite Android keyboard?” and like 8 of the first 10 comments were for Florisboard, despite it being far behind other keyboards, and I had never even heard of it. It made me feel it was some sort of scam keyboard. It’s similar to a situation where if every YouTube influencer is telling me I need to insall something, that’s a giant red flag. Especially when that thing was objectively worse than other options at the time.

Don’t tell me I can’t comment with my honest experiences.

And here you are touting a feature that other keyboards have had for years.

Why not HeliBoard?

Last time I saw anyone mention FlorisBoard, a whole post’s comments section was recommending it. Almost like the post got brigaded by astroturfers shilling FlorisBoard. At the time it didn’t even have autocorrect or other basic features. It felt like the Twilight zone.

Now, I don’t trust anyone who recommends it because it had literally no features over an already established keyboard like HeliBoard, yet a entire post of evangelists coming out of the woodwork. Makes no sense.

Mine is useful and seems accurate. I just looked, and the top two apps are the ones I’ve been using for the past two hours. I have a Pixel 7 Pro. What phone do you have? Your numbers do seem useless.

They used the “View Source” feature like I told them to.

You can see the real comment in the background.