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• BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My vote still for total launcher.

  This post has just reminded me to change from Microsoft keyboard to FUTO. I wasn’t worried about the data harvesting, but it started redirecting my searches to Bing by hijacking the search button on the keyboard.

  I’m 30% slower with FUTO though at this stage. Not sure if it’s my swype style being slightly out of calibration or my device is not fast enough to keep up. (Moto g84).

  Will see how I get on.

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  • lohky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve been using FUTO for a few months now and the Swype and autocorrect are fucking horrible. Still using it because fuck Google I guess, but man I wish it were better.

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    • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can change some of the autocorrect settings. But yea its not the best for sure

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    • BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I agree it isn’t great. But I don’t want to be in the abusive relationship with Microsoft. Yes I could probably just turn off the deep search option but they’ll just do something else.

      Maybe there’s a better option than FUTO, it’s just the first thing I saw as a recommended alternative.

      It seems if I swype carefully it’s reasonably accurate but I have to be patient.

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      • lohky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Same. I used a different android device the other day that still had gboard on it and the swype felt so much better. Still won’t go back.

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  • filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Total is truly amazing, especially for a foldable, no match. Few small long standing bugs though, maybe I should take the initiative to report those

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  • Trent@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Total Launcher is where I landed.

    Also, Heliboard is a pretty decent keyboard.

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  • CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i switched from gboard to ThumbKey. Took some time to get used to, but now the usual qwerty/swipe keyboards seem inferrior to me. Like, swipe is cool and all, but only as long as the keyboard knows the word you’re looking for. As soon as you need to type out anything manually, it always turns into hell

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