Think you mean SwiftKey which Microsoft just introduced bing AI into that you can’t turn off. I 100 percent assume they now use all your typing data to train their ai too. They won’t even let you use themes without logging in to an account so I again assume they also tie data to accounts.
nomadjoanne@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Didn’t swiftpad or whatever its called send every key pressed to Microsoft?
Spambox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
dx1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What are the best FOSS options for Android keyboard apps? I’ve been struggling with this lately.
nomadjoanne@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I use OpenBoard (it’s available on fDroid. Maybe the play store too).
I don’t know if it’s the best but I like it. If you type in multiple languages you do need to hit a “language switcher” key on the keyboard to switch to the autocorrect for that language. A very minor complaint. Otherwise it’s great.
And it will learn swear words. No more ducking ducks.
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 1 year ago
OpenBoard - every other keyboard app is ducking shirt
out@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
[deleted]nomadjoanne@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I only dislike it for German. My other languages are Spanish and English, which have the same layout minus one extra key not even used in English. But in German Z and Y change places, so that always trips me up.
Having to remember to switch to the different language when writing a bilingual email is also annoying and does happen somewhat more often than you’d imagine.
sic_1@feddit.de 1 year ago
Seconded. I use Gboard because it has the same functionality but I have to sandbox it and restrict all internet access via firewall. I still don’t trust it and would prefer a FOSS alternative with the same functionality.
assa123@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How to you do that?
Exocet@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Not OP, but this can be managed with Datura firewall on CalyxOs
sic_1@feddit.de 1 year ago
You can sandbox an app using Shelter. You can block the internet access of that app using NetGuard. Both apps are available on F-Droid and easy to setup. No special OS needed but I strongly recommend GrapheneOS to avoid backdoors.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Using FlorisBoard right now, no auto correct but you’ll adapt
CCatMan@lemmy.one 1 year ago
OpenBoard with Gesture
Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Yes that’s why I’ve disabled Internet access for my keyboard since I haven’t found an FOSS one with all the features I want. Not that I need them but they’re nice and blocking network access is built in GrapheneOS anyway.
Atticadayz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How do I use foss? Where do I find it?
cunnilingsus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I agree with the “Use FOSS” part, but I can’t help but notice a double standard thats often taken when these kinds of stories pop up. How come whenever a Chinese compant does something like this, China is always at fault? Why is it never America’s fault when something like this happens with an American company or product?
BloodForTheBloodGod@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Just for one thing, Chinese companies are required to have CCP members in their leadership.
Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I mean like the FBI buys all that data without a warrant anyways… So st least we pretend its not happening but like were practically looking in a mirror
nomadjoanne@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think China’s worse. In many cases much worse, in some cases only a bit worse. But I do not excuse America.
Look at Xinjang. The Uyghurs are facing cultural eradication. Look at African Americans. Their situation is still bad and not ok! But it is the lesser evil when you compare what the US does to their minorities compared to what China does to theirs
niceboysummer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So in China the CPC forces companies to have CPC members in their leadership, but in the USA companies bribe and coerce our leaders to do whatever they want. The US government allows companies in the US surveil everyone and everything with great intensity, and in return all of them will turn over that information to the government anyway… So companies in both countries partake in surveillance on people, but the CPC imposes oversight onto the company while US companies impose oversight onto the government. (or more accurately, businesses and the government work together to the benefit of business)
idk, if we had a state run by a communist party, it would be pretty cool if they forced workers on to the board of Exon, Norfolk Southern, or Raytheon etc
ilikekeyboards@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wanted to ask if you were born yesterday but I’ll try to be more educative than sassy.
All companies in China exist purely with the blessing of the political party. No approval, no company. Everything is done by their books.
yogurt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Unexamined racism. “Collectivist asians” and denying Asian individuality is very normal in the US/Europe. Malcolm Gladwell can write a book saying Koreans are culturally incapable of flying an airplane and it’s fine. When Asians have human emotions it’s normal to turn it into some special exoticized thing like “saving face”. White people are individuals, Asians are a horde, nothing in Anglo culture prepares or encourages people to think about Chinese people as a billion individuals wandering around doing stuff for the same reasons you do. They’re a singular alien unit, if you go to war with Japan it’s only natural to lock all the Japanese people in a camp. Basically every book and newspaper article you’ve ever read talks about them they’re all wired together like the Borg, unless you put a ton of effort into critical thinking there’s no reason to escape that assumption.
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Except the Chinese government has way more control over their companies than the US government does. In fact, there has been an explicit push recently by the government to increase their control and ownership of companies. It’s also consistent with how most large states operate, especially ones with a history of trying to control ethnically Chinese people outside of their borders.
That isn’t to say that a ton of anti China sentiment isn’t racist; it’s just that one doesn’t need to be racist make such a prediction. It’s true that many people who hate China hate it for the wrong reasons, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t things to take issue with.
cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I wish my government kept companies in check a bit more than they do. I live in the UK where all the water companies are owned by hedge funds and they keep discharging raw sewage into all our waterways. I feel we could do well to take back some control from them.
yogurt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sure but stereotypes are involved in what you think a state owned bank owning 1% of Tencent stock practically means, and what kind of hateful thing you imagine a government that operates on the willing cooperation of millions of people is going to do with it. You don’t need to be racist to hate China, but there are a lot more racists than people who studied Chinese corporate structure and came to a rational conclusion about it.