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What are your recent privacy wins? (piefed.zip)
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (9 children)

I'm not sure I'd call it a "win" necessarily. After seeing it mentioned in a thread a couple weeks ago I switched from Gboard to FUTO Keyboard. Except I friggin hate it, it's swipe typing is SOOO bad. Everything takes ten times longer now because i have to go back and fix every other word multiple times. Win for my privacy, loss for my ability to type things, I guess. If anyone has another swipe capable keyboard that respects privacy, I'm open to suggestions.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    I want to love FUTO keyboard but the swiping is SO bad. I gave up on it after a few weeks. Thought my thumb would learn but it was just too much.

    Want to give it some time to ripen on the vine and hopefully improve in that area. Sad to hear it hasn't changed since I put it down (probably around last August)

    A radically different keyboard is thumb-key, available on F-Droid.

    https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.dessalines.thumbkey

    I couldn't stick with it long enough to develop the muscle memory but I see how it can be super good if you get quick with it. It's VERY different. Designed specifically for thumb only typing, throws out QWERTY layout entirely, which was designed for two hands with 10 fingers to use effectively and has been ported over to a different device only due to familiarity amongst users, not because QWERTY is actually GOOD for devices that you text with one or two thumbs.

    I encourage people to check it out. Privacy focused, designed for a single thumb and doesn't rely on complex evaluation of swipe pattern recognition in order to be efficient. But you have to really force yourself to use it and I just didn't have the discipline to beat the learning curve.

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

    Is Florisboard still around?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Looks like the latest release was 5 months ago. I'll check it out, thanks!

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

    Awesome! Let me know how it works for you!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    So I tried it but have since uninstalled and unfortunately gone back to Gboard for now. It was fine for what it was, but it doesn't support swipe (or "glide typing," as they called it) which is a dealbreaker for be. It is mentioned in the settings page, it reads to me like it was there before and they took it out and plan to reimplement it later (v0.7+, according to the roadmap on GitHub). So I'll keep this in mind for the future and hope to come back to it when they've added it back in.

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