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Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs

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Re: Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs

#11

That's awesome It would be nice to add more messagease layouts, multitouch 2-pane mode, more symbols, and layout customization features. Lack of question mark in the standard layout drives me mad. Also it would be good to have an option to disable animations, they are extremely distracting.

To disable animations just set both the animation speeds to 0.

Re: Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs

#14

That's awesome It would be nice to add more messagease layouts, multitouch 2-pane mode, more symbols, and layout customization features. Lack of question mark in the standard layout drives me mad. Also it would be good to have an option to disable animations, they are extremely distracting.

There are a lot of MessageEase features that it's still missing, but it's moving fast, and I'm very excited that it exists.

Re: Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs

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I used to use a very similar looking/functioning keyboard way back on my Palm organiser and then on my Pocket PC. I don't recall the name of it now, but I got be being quite fast with it. It didn't have any autocomplete IIRC.

On my Pocket PC devices I used a keyboard that looked similar, but functioned very differently. You would draw a letter in a 3*3 grid, the passage of grid squares would indicate which letter is being drawn. I loved it, I should write something similar for Android.

Re: Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs

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Neat idea, shame about all this misleading information though. The website very strongly implies (1) the only way to predict words is by uploading every keystroke to central server,(2) every keyboard other than theirs do that and (3) the only way to get privacy is to download their product. This is all complete lies of course. The prediction database is small enough that you can bundle it with app and run all predict…

A keyboard shouldn't have network permission at all.

Or, better, the software should serve the users (and not the other way around) and then you don't have to care what permissions it has.

You don't need to tolerate software that you have an adversarial relationship with.

Re: Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs

#17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A keyboard shouldn't have network permission at all.

Or, better, the software should serve the users (and not the other way around) and then you don't have to care what permissions it has. You don't need to tolerate software that you have an adversarial relationship with.

Since there's very little way to verify that, permissions are a better metric. This was especially true before Google basically neutered permissions.

Re: Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs

#19
Dessalines, the author, also is the main contributor of Lemmy (an open source Reddit clone in Rust that's on the Fediverse). He's a very ideologically motivated programmer, a socialist, and I admire him very much.

https://github.com/dessalines

https://join-lemmy.org

Re: Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs

#20
I experimented with a similar concept myself[1] but couldn't get myself used to it. The neat thing though is that it doesn't require a dictionary. You get what you type (or swipe), there's zero guesswork involved.

[1] https://twitter.com/grishka11/status/1517531884246421505

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