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Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by yarg »

Gordonjcp wrote: post #83
yarg wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The same shit happens when driving. Our internal understanding of our own bodies seems to adapt to take the tools we're using into account. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_schema https://scholar.google.co.nz/scholar?q=related:5uSissKo6EgJ:...

> The same shit happens when driving. In a broader sense, it never fails to amaze me that a kilo and a half of goopy cells that evolved to work out where the plants that won't kill you and where to trap rabbits in the next valley are - things that are, generally speaking, not much further than you can see - can visualise every step and turn of a journey of hundreds of miles, while being shoved through space at roughl…

We're been selected for the more extreme events that our ancestors went through, not just the day to day.

We're a species that has navigated its way across the world.

Human tribes frequently migrated seasonally with the herds on which we depended for food and clothing.

We're very well equipped for long distance travel.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by pdimitar »

maxbond wrote: post #75
quaintdev wrote: post #16

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Why do we feel this need to disect everything

Analysis is the most straightforward path to resolving disagreement. Get enough people talking and you'll have disagreement. The immediate result is analysis.

This is not an analysis at all, people online have been misusing the word "ironic" forever. Almost nobody uses it correctly.

It's a way to shut down debate while pretending to use a legitimate debating technique. A tale as old as the internet itself.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by column »

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?

Uninstall it, sideload the version you want from https://apkpure.com/microsoft-swiftkey-keyboard/com.touchtyp...

(be mindful this site is not the official repo and a keyboard is a critical app).

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by merijnv »

Daneel_ wrote: post #29

Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly does swiftkey offer over the usual keyboard? A quick google seems to bring up "better predictive text" and "better multi-language support" - is that it?

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 and having to explicitly toggle languages is a MAJOR speedbump in typing.

Swiftkey just lets me auto-complete/swipe in multiple languages seamlessly. Want to swipe 1 English word inside a completely Dutch sentence? No problem. The reverse? No problem. Using Google's keyboard the same way is endlessly frustrating.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by AndriyKunitsyn »

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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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 of conqueror.

Do you maybe want your country to abstain from the conflict, save money/resources and let the survival of the fittest take place? What side do you believe it will benefit?

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by Gordonjcp »

xxs wrote: post #97
Gordonjcp wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The same shit happens when driving. In a broader sense, it never fails to amaze me that a kilo and a half of goopy cells that evolved to work out where the plants that won't kill you and where to trap rabbits in the next valley are - things that are, generally speaking, not much further than you can see - can visualise every step and turn of a journey of hundreds of miles, while being shoved through space at roughl…

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.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by anorakoverflow »

srg0 wrote: post #78
Langdal wrote: post #42

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The iOS standard keyboard does not support swiping if your language is Norwegian.

I was trying to find the full list of the languages where QuickPath (Swipe) is supported. Here it is: https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#quicktype-ke... Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Vietnamese.

IMO, here’s a lot of room for improvement for German, because it’s a real dice roll whether a compound noun will be recognised or not. You can try swiping the components individually, but then you have to go deleting spaces everywhere. Unless there’s a feature I’m missing?

This is the sort of thing I think someone would have found a better solution for if more languages (and possibly English in particular) had non-spaced compound nouns.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by npteljes »

can16358p wrote: post #77

What's exactly going on? As a user who never used SwiftKey and only know that it's a mobile 3rd party keyboard, I'm kind of lost what's the issue about. ELI5?

Remotely managed user disillusioned when confronted with an example of how their, and their managements' incentives misalign.
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