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Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by globular-toast »

unpopularopp wrote: post #10

> This one hurts, it really hurts. I think this hurts worse than Musk buying/poisoning/killing Twitter. I've mentioned this before but a keyboard feels like an extension of your body People need to take a break. Being terminally online and complaining about everything is not a healthy way of life.

What are you proposing? Go off the grid? It's a bit difficult when your tech overlords are forcing you on to their platforms using any trick they can. Do you realise how difficult it is to not use a smartphone, especially for young people, these days? Or perhaps you just expect people to submit to their tech overlords and accept the tools they are allowed to use?

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by globular-toast »

ro_bit wrote: post #98

Damn, the auto update got to me before I read this. Is there a way to rollback the update that bingifies swiftkey on Android?

You aren't in control of your smartphone. Microsoft/Google are. The FSF have been saying this for decades. It doesn't matter how "open source" Android is. It's not designed to put you in control.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by jevgeni »

explorer83 wrote: post #80
dustedcodes wrote: post #57

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Thanks for sharing. I think of it like a messy divorce or a business deal gone wrong. Sure some issues may be clear cut but most of the time you're never going to get the full story without listening to both sides. And even then you're not guaranteed the truth.

The problem is not that people in the West are not listening to both sides. A lot of people still have a very selective attention to what russia says. Specifically, people choose to ignore Putin's outright hitlerian speech at the start of the war, people choose to ignore prominent russian media personalities calling for ethnic cleansing in Ukraine. Just recently a horrible video of Wagner troops beheading a Ukrainian POW surfaced and Skabeeva in prime time said something to the effect "this is what should happen to all Ukrainians".

Instead, in some Chomskian myopia there is a considerable number of people in Europe and USA spreading FUD and reducing their opinion to "war is bad (sad emoji face) Ukraine shouldn't do war".

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by criddell »

rishav_sharan wrote: post #120
red_admiral wrote: post #112

It feels to me like there is a market opportunity for a new keyboard app manufacturer here. Possibly along similar ethical lines as Mozilla/Firefox (there's bundled stuff because someone has to pay the bills, but it's only so much effort to turn it off).

Pretty much no revenue opportunities. I was the PM for a keyboard app with millions of downloads and was the most downloaded keyboard app in India. But there is no way to monetize it. Early on, the OEMs would pay us to have our keyboards in their images as it would give them more customizability, better local language support and end-to-end localization. The rev share on each device sold, was enough to keep the produ…

> no way to monetize it

I don’t understand this. Where you giving it away?

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by KingMob »

dustedcodes wrote: post #57
unpopularopp wrote: post #10

> This one hurts, it really hurts. I think this hurts worse than Musk buying/poisoning/killing Twitter. I've mentioned this before but a keyboard feels like an extension of your body People need to take a break. Being terminally online and complaining about everything is not a healthy way of life.

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Pretty sure Musk doing right-wing grifter Andy Ngo's bidding and kicking off Ngo's targets counts as "suppressing balanced debate", only it's happening for real: https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by toyg »

Gordonjcp wrote: post #107
xxs wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One can tell the British background by the mix of metric ('kilo') and imperial ('mile'). Mentioning that as the way we adapt with different units, feeling natural about them, and getting defensive about them, too.

I'm not particularly "defensive" about units. I would however point out that I am not British, I'm Scottish.

Being Scottish technically makes you British, at least until independence comes. I'd argue that, even then, it will remain the case - as long as we accept that Scotland will continue to be part of the British Isles, and in particular of the island of Britain.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by GuB-42 »

black_puppydog wrote: post #64

Oh dear, I literally just had a dream last night about how MS was gonna build GPT into the keyboard and even in my dream I thought "what a complete lack of reflection that must have taken, to think this is a good idea." Guess I'm on the search for a new keyboard as well then. le sigh...

What a predictive keyboard does is exactly what GPT does and vice versa, so it makes a whole lot of sense to use it. A predictive keyboard is an even more direct application of GPT than ChatGPT is.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if current keyboards implemented some kind of a GPT-light network. It is just the perfect tool for the job.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by tazjin »

AndriyKunitsyn wrote: post #106
dustedcodes wrote: post #57

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That's interesting. "Support for the war" is not an expression that makes a lot of sense to me. Nobody in their right mind wakes up in the morning and tells themselves "yes, I am going to fight in the war just for the sake of it, I love wars", those who fight usually believe that although war is gruesome (which it is), they will be in a better shape if they continue fighting than if they just surrender to the mercy o…

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Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by Tistron »

sverhagen wrote: post #117
merijnv wrote: post #104

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I mean, you say "is this it?", but the multi-language support of literally all other Android keyboards I've used are basically unusable. Take Google's default keyboard, it requires you manually switch languages for swiping and predictive text to work. But that's completely unworkable for the way multi-lingual people end up actually typing texting. I swap back and forth across languages, even if just for 1 or 2 words…

The default one on Samsung will let you select multiple languages under "Suggest text predictions". Not sure if that's a clone of the default Google one, but I had so far assumed so. Seems to switch decently between Dutch and English, for me.

Yeah. Though decently is not the same as excellently.

Written on a SwiftKey keyboard used to write English, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic with minimal issues.

Though to be fair, I think the stock keyboard is probably almost as good these days and that the difference is that my SwiftKey keyboard has been trained on my writing for several years. Though I have no idea more than that I quickly get annoyed when I try to type on the stock one.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by contravariant »

globular-toast wrote: post #122
ro_bit wrote: post #98

Damn, the auto update got to me before I read this. Is there a way to rollback the update that bingifies swiftkey on Android?

You aren't in control of your smartphone. Microsoft/Google are. The FSF have been saying this for decades. It doesn't matter how "open source" Android is. It's not designed to put you in control.

I mean it does matter that Android is open source, but only in the sense that you can install an OS that doesn't contain that much Google stuff.
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