DeGoogle Yourself

8099 readers

6 users here now

A community for those that would like to get away from Google.

Here you may post anything related to DeGoogling, why we should do it or good software alternatives!

Rules

Be respectful even in disagreement
No advertising unless it is very relevent and justified. Do not do this excessively.
No low value posts / memes. We or you need to learn, or discuss something.

Related communities

!privacyguides@lemmy.one !privacy@lemmy.ml !privatelife@lemmy.ml !linuxphones@lemmy.ml !fossdroid@social.fossware.space !fdroid@lemmy.ml

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml

CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee

Byereddithellolemmy@lemmy.world

chevy9294@monero.town

GBoard replacement? (pawb.social)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by VinesNFluff@pawb.social to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

43 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Title.

I'm not sure I'm ready to go all "lineageOS full degoogle" on my phone because some rather necessary day-to-day apps for me will freak out if I have root, let alone a modified OS. Buuuut GBoard has gotten right in my tit, and now they're offering nightmarish AI generated emoji and I'm like "NO". So.

I don't really care about predictive text or swipe-typing or any of that stuff, I mostly just type normally.

The only nice-to-haves that might entice me would be support for one-handed mode and a configurable keyboard layout.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 28 points 1 week ago (23 children)

I've struggled with keyboards. Some to try out are OpenBoard, Heliboard, and Florisboard. All are on F-Droid.

But my favourite so far is FUTO Keyboard. Not without issues but I like it the best. It's not on F-Droid but you can use Obtanium to keep it up to date from the GitHub releases.

If you like weird shit, check out Thumb-key. It's on F-Droid and made by one of the Lemmy developers.

[–] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

But my favourite so far is FUTO Keyboard.

Note, that FUTO Keyboard is proprietary, as its code is being distributed under source-available license: https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/latinime/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 week ago

OP never asked for OSS 🙂. It's not big tech and has no network access so should suit the de-google theme.

On FUTO, they are using the term "Source First" (which they invented) because they pretty much think that OSI is funded by big tech and serves their purposes. My exaggerated paraphrasing but you can read their views here.

Basically they think the current model doesn't work, and they are experimenting with a different take. I don't have strong views but I'm happily using the keyboard while I wait and see if it works for them.

load more comments (21 replies)