• MotoAsh
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        05 months ago

        Good luck with that on anything that has a locked boot loader or stock OS.

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

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

          • MotoAsh
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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.

            • krolden
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              VPN to your box somewhere else with proper filtering.

              I figured that was obvious

              • MotoAsh
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                05 months ago

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

                • @Count042@lemmy.ml
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                  05 months ago

                  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.

                  • MotoAsh
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                    rofl you offer no evidence, only insults. Yore a pathetic joke and you’re trying to make it my problem. Move along, loser.

                    My comment wasn’t about how open or closed VPNs are, you fucking moron. It was about how they’re not a silver bullet for protecting privacy.

        • ArchEngel
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          Same, I switched over yesterday and I found it actually does all the things I was hoping for!

          Reducing keyboard size, removing suggestions bar, adjusting timing on holding for symbols or numbers, emoji key, theming, and swipe typing can be enabled (its just a file that they cannot or have chosen not to install with the app, as the rest is open source as far as I understood).

      • @dustyData@lemmy.world
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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.

        • uninvitedguest
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          05 months ago

          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.

          • Kami
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            05 months ago

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

    • ☂️-
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      quite a bunch of stem computer people are also fascists.

      • @balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one
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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.

        • @kossa@feddit.org
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          Well, ThumbKey adapts to the limitations of a phone screen, that’s why it’s unique. So, once you are familiar with it, you’re less likely to fumble the wrong key. It takes quite some time though, at least it did for me.

            • @FruitLips@lemmy.ml
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              Failed for thee perhaps, but mein hands are smol, vocab’s colloquial, n’ passwords often complex… Autocorrect is the first feature that must die when I adopt devices.

    • sga
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      05 months ago

      fossify keyboard? extremely basic, but works