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
Of all the most offensive words and slurs, Apple made sure to also block the phrase “iMessage isn’t working”
Corps aren’t your friend. Apple is just as shitty as everyone else, they’re just better at hiding it.
Yes. Offensive words like corn hole, cop shooting, and accept gays.
Corn hole is offensive to those of us who finally escaped the midwest
I don’t understand how “accept gays” even got on that list.
The king they bowed to has a problem with it
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 think you’re being a little reactionary, it’s more about offending someone by suggesting these things when they WEREN’T what they were actually trying to say. Autocorrecting to insults or swears could get someone in potentially serious trouble. It’s easy to imagine the viral facebook post “My iPhone got me fired!” Or even “iPhone is teaching my kids bad words!”
My mothers iPhone autocorrected an inserted an N-bomb while she was texting a black friend of hers so it’s not like this is surprising to any of us.
Doesn’t the autocorrect learn from the user? Your mom probably uses the N-word a lot
You cant have control of your own device, it could be a slight PR inconvenience for the company!
You should be blaming the parents if you see posts like that. Literally no excuse for not watching your own child and making sure they know which words are okay and not okay, in your own house
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
That’s already how it normally works if you just press buttons. This is for swipe-typing, which has to be “smart” because you swipe across many buttons and it has to figure out what you meant.
Even when you type one character at a time most keyboards including apples try to autocorrect what you type, especially if you use more than one language or use uncommon slang
Hmm, ok. I use Gboard and it doesn’t do that.
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.
Built in an ethical country.
Whats /e/os up to these days? Anyone have expirence to speak on it? Pitch it to us, channel the late Billy Mays.
It is a fork of LineageOS with Murena bloatware and very late security updates. Lineage (best for wide device support) and Graphene (best for security and actively fixing compatibility with apps) are much better choices.
Sigh. Yeah, that really vibe-coded it’s way right off the deep end. Fucking AI.
I kind of had the exact opposite of that in mind when I wrote my comment.
Wdym?
There are reports that the founder of the project Gaël Duval has had a bit on an AI-nyrism:
Refer to: https://feddit.dk/post/26068400/23217982
Was that just the founder or is that official for the project? Because my last stand is that /e/os have taken this stance:
Ah, so he goes with the state of the art. That’s reassuring. Good.
Correctly used AI is a great leverage for small companies.
Shame…
I’ve used iode for some time, which is similar, and it was great. I’m on GrapheneOS now and it’s also good. De-google Android is doing great for now.
I actually like Apple a lot more than I thought I would. But swipe typing on it is absolute dog shirt.
You can install other keyboards, right?
Those suck even more
I have one, it is my daily driver, and I love it!
Sailfish OS has proprietary components and they were working with Russia, so I don’t trust them.
The only proprietary part is the UI, Harbour. The rest is open source.
They licensed the OS at one time to a russian company and broke it off when the hostilities began. Since then they have no ties to Russia at all.
Interesting. To what degree does it allow the software it’s running to be customized? Say, if I wanted to install and run dnscrypt on it or firejail the browser, would I be able to?
You can run whatever you want or write. You get sudo.
Excellent. The price point of 700 Euro is a little spicy, but I certainly like everything else about it.
Check out your local marketplace. Many people bought it at discount during first batch and now selling for around 550€ because they figured they need Android or iOS
Thanks for the tip!
Mine should be sent out soon!
Cool, will be looking at this come upgrade time
I’m hoping the flipper one can be my new phone!
flipper one
It’s a hella cool little device. Not sure how well it’d work as a phone, but I want one too.
Sim support : check
Microphone : check
Speaker : check
Bluetooth : check
Looks like it has all the hardware covered, just need to install the software. Hopefully software will eventually support the hardware if it doesn’t out of the box. That’s my hope anyway.
Sure. I was more thinking about ergonomics. The, um, user interface isn’t exactly very phone-oriented. But maybe pluggable external HIDs can make up for that.
Unfortunately if you want to use modern phone technologies you’ll never have complete control of the software
While “never” seems a little defeatist to me, it’s not like you’re currently wrong. I strongly suspect there’s more than a few unpleasant surprises lurking deep in Quamcomm’s firmware for example.
All the 3GPP tracking standards they don’t want you turning off
3GPP
That too, although I had in mind something that wasn’t publicly available (if obscure) knowledge.
iOS supports third-party keyboards, if you’re willing to try a keyboard from the App Store.
I know Google has a plethora of their own issues, but at least Gboard lets me say whatever the fuck I want, and it’s easy as hell to change the settings (there’s literally a shortcut on the keyboard that takes you to its settings).
Graphene OS
Every OS allows you to change the keyboard app.
Fairphone has the best support for flashing onto. I have a Purism Librem 5 because I like the hardware kill switches, but requires tinkering to optimize performance, and even then, the hardware is still a decade old.
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
Is the keyboard on iOS getting worse every year or am I in the early stages of some horrific degenerative disease?
They trimmed a huge amount of terminology and an abundance of everyday words, and made it check grammar and punctuation despite the fact that it is objectively terrible at both. It is a fair bit worse now than 10 years ago.
The keyboard and speech to text are getting notably worse and have been for years. I’ve been somewhat of an Apple defender over the years, but you are not imagining it. I’ve used androids and iPhones to compare them for accessibility purposes and the iPhone used to be significantly better. I keep my tech for as long as possible, but I’ve on more than one occasion thought about jumping ship just because the worsening text capabilities sometimes makes my phone unusable for basic communication purposes.
Is yours ancient like mine? I thought the same but went into a shop and specifically tried the keyboard of a demo 17 and it worked as well as I recall it used to. Either that or we have the same disease. 50-50 at this point.
Is a 16 consdered ancient? I def know people who reup every year or two but that seems crazy wasteful.
My 11 still works fine after a battery change.
My daily driver
What’s the weekend phone?
unavailable.
Damn well that dashes my hopes then. I’ll meet you in the retirement home early I guess. I’m running an XR in a perhaps bordering on excessive attempt to counter said yearly reup culture.
