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Hippo 🍉

@postmarketOS omg!!

I was excited to hear the features, then disappointed to hear it's backed by proprietary libraries from #Gboard, but then excited again to learn this demonstrates the ability to run stuff from #LineageOS and its forks/ancestors without having to run a full-blown emulator! And not a normal app but a integrated subsystem no less 😮

If #postmarketOS were human, this would be a true #cyborg (in a good way) :postmarketos:

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R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

@hyde

Not maintained anymore, from what I can tell.

Heliboard is a fork, and quite good: github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

But to *actually* answer your question, I've used #Heliboard, #FUTO Keyboard, and #GBoard interchangeably for a couple weeks now.

The level of frustration and correction on GBoard is just much lower than the other two.

It's proprietary as fudge, but GBoard just has a lot of smarts under the hood.
I have it entirely firewalled off from the internet, of course. ;)

Customizable and privacy-conscious open-source keyboard - Helium314/HeliBoard
GitHubGitHub - Helium314/HeliBoard: Customizable and privacy-conscious open-source keyboardCustomizable and privacy-conscious open-source keyboard - Helium314/HeliBoard
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Dunbar's Number

I don't think people realise just how shit their phone keyboards are. For years I was using #MinuumKeyboard and it was a great experience. I didn't have to type precisely because the algorithm would use press position and the previous word to guess what I was trying to type.

Now I'm using #GBoard and it's stupid as hell. There's nothing smart about it. No #MachineLearning nothing. I know there's zealots that hate the idea of #AI and by extension #ML. But bear in mind, all #Minuum machine learning was done on-device.

Typing is so laborious now. It's slow and painful and I'm constantly forced to do what should be the job of the processor.

Honestly, keyboards were supposed to be the next frontier is tech warring but unfortunately the big bastards shut everyone else. I still lament the fact that #Mozilla didn't even have the balls or foresight to give it a go. Imagine a well supported #OpenSource #keyboard that could sync your dictionary to your other devices via your own #selfhosted server. Instead #Google gave us GBoard which doesn't even try and #Microsoft have #SwiftKey which stopped trying when they bought it. Both are super happy to farm their users for #LLM data though.

It's a damn shame.

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