Gn #nostr. Today I felt socially engineered. Tomorrow I'm gonna ditch this default keyboard app.
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I recommend Anysoft Keyboad:
Appreciate this. Been using SwiftKey since way before it was bought up by MS. May be looking for a new option soon. Looking at replacing my Pixel 6 that reboots multiple times a day with a Pixel 6 running Calyx. Probably won't be wanting an MS keybd on there.
Yeah, makes sense! I ran Calyx for years and really liked it. Switched to GrapheneOS ~2 years ago, but Calyx still gets an honorable mention in my book.
And Graphene may be an option if I can't make Calyx work for me. I think my biggest struggle would be to try and get Intune working so I get corp emails/calendars. The joys of fiat mining at a big corp. If not Im prepared to try other options. (that I've used before)
I used to run custom roms in the early years of Androids, but haven't bothered rooting a phone in maybe a decade. I may have even run an early calyx, but always used pretty cheap phones.
another vote for #grapheneos. it's been flawless for me and has an optional sandboxed play services (if you absolutely need an app that requires it and you can't give up).
I just use a separate profile with the sandboxed play services installed.
fwiw florisboard in another foss option that does a pretty decent job mimicking swype. not perfect by any means but worth a trial.
Funny, even though I use SwiftKey, which was an early-ish swype option, I never got used to typing that way. Also bad at gestures on any platform. For me I think it is more just consistency in layout, possibly even more important for hunt/peck. Also knowing where special characters are at. I don't even use auto-complete a lot, so could do without that. Will be fun to see some FOSS options, but not above paying for the solution if it really fits my needs well.
Nice to see another Florisboard user. Just an FYI they also appear to be a lot closer to implementing an NLP for predictions now.
I use anysoft keyboard. it only sometimes gets me in trouble by typing things it shouldn't 🤗