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And gboard or SwiftKey don't?
Every single time something sketchy is happening in Chinese tech a Lemmy user will slide the conversation and accusations to American tech. It's a rule.
Is not about American/Chinese government, is about privacy. ANY company or government storing your data can be extremely problematic in the future.
Yeah the Sogou Keyboard send data to Tencent, the same thing happens or could happens with others proprietary keyboards in the future. How about trying a FOSS one?
It's absolutely about the American/Chinese government, I don't see comments forum sliding into Chinese tech on every post about Google.
But no, swift and gboard don't send your data to the American government.
There's also a dangerous misconception around here that FOSS == privacy safe. It doesn't.
On all social media, that seems to happen and it makes me sick.
People not knowing how scary the Chinese government is speaks volumes about the future of other countries. We had all the opportunity to see it happen and avoid it and these morons dismiss the truth and whatabout every damned thing
While GBoard is closed source, they have documented that they use federated learning. Meaning their model is generated on-device and only the inferences are sent to Google.
That being said, I use OpenBoard.
Plus it also has the feature where you can drag on the space bar to move the letterhead!
They don't.
I prefer OpenBoard, it doesn't send keystrokes to any server
The fork even has support for swipe, autocorrect, word prediction, clipboard management, etc, and is way more lightweight than Gboard and the rest. Zero reason to use anything else at the moment.
What's the fork? I've been using Florisboard beta (ehich is also opensource) and pretty happy with it. The only things I miss is swipe for dictionary words
https://github.com/Helium314/openboard
Important to note that you need to install a library from inside the app's settings to enable swipe typing. Ctrl+F "enable gesture typing" on the Github page to see where to get it.
I loaded the library but couldn't see a toggle to turn it on.
Uhhh it's pretty blatant.
OpenBoard Settings > Gesture Typing > Enable Gesture Typing
Is this a different fork
No, it's the fork I've linked. You got it from here, yes? Also, the option only appears after you successfully load a library by going to Advanced > Load gesture typing library. Since you said you'd already loaded it I didn't mention that. You might've loaded the incorrect file or something.
Not if you block internet connection at system level. I think it can be done if GBoard in installed as an user app, not as a system one.
Might as well just use Open Board.
Of course. My "problem" is that I need to write in 3 languages at the same time and switching languages manually in Open board is a bit cumbersome, while in GBoard it happens automatically.
This "they're all bad" shit aimed at the Chinese government makes me so sad. How many of you dullards have even heard of Tienanmen square
The downvotes tell me some people need to Google Tienanmen square. From outside China. Inside china, it didn't happen. Erases from history
It's not called the 'Tiananmen Square' by the Chinese - that's just the name of the place. Either 六四屠殺 (June 4 massacre) or 六四鎮壓 (June 4 crackdown) would be more likely. And yes, expect loads of downvoting on Lemmy if you're ever critical of China.