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Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants (futo.org)
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Apparently in the past day, they’ve removed all the logos from the Microgrants projects and clarified that the grants are unsolicited

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Thanks for posting this. Just uninstalled Futo keyboard and its neighboring speech to text app. Gotta hunt around for a replacement on both, tho I've been using Heliboard, which is okay. Still really bad at swipe predictions.

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

    The voice recognition is honestly the best I've ever used. It'll be a shame to give it up.

    If I decide to switch keyboards, I'm certain I would go back to HeliBoard.

    There's been a real explosion of open source voice recognition over the past few months, and I haven't tested a lot. Whisper+ looks like a promising one. Before using Futo, I used Sayboard, which I was pretty happy with.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I was really loving Futo keyboard, but when companies are tied to any atrocities, or in this case, plain general evil, it's really tough to stick with. I jumped very briefly over to Sayboard before your post (saw it on F-Droid), but I'm hoping Whisper+ works better, as I think I'll simultaneously be using it for my upcoming HA voice assistant project.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    If you are comfortable using F-Droid or Obtainium I found HeliBoard to be a good keyboard replacement: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

    Sadly anything not going through the Google Play store is currently under attack: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

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

    Hah! That's why I said I was using Heliboard :P As noted, not the greatest text prediction. e.g. I'll type "in" specifically starting over the I, and it still types "on", and it also doesn't like shorthand wording, like "gonna" which every time gets replaced with "Gibbs"

    Still better than the Google keyboard with its billion all-seeing eyes on you.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    🤦‍♂️ Sometimes I wonder who those people are who immediately jump to conclusions because they can't be bothered to read a simple paragraph of text. Me. The answer is - it's me!

    Hopefully something good still came out of it. Maybe as someone else recommended adding your frequently used words to your dictionary will help with word sugggestions.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can't you just put the shorthand words you want in a personal dictionary? That worked for me. Able to type words not in the default dictionary without autocorrecting.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I suppose I could have, but I'm still somewhat babystepping in Heliboard. I think if I give it a bit more time, it'll click better. I guess I was just so used to the seemingly solid prediction options for Google Keyboard way back. But having less of my info passing over to them, the better.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I just switched to Heliboard. I like it, but I wish it had swiping.

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