Lka1988

See what tablets are supported by Lineage OS or other custom ROM devs. I ran a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 up until just a few years ago, when the hardware just couldn’t handle the demands anymore. Had unofficial Lineage OS support for a long while.

Guys, remember when a high-quality tablet was under $400?

The modem in my 9 Pro XL has been completely fine since I bought the thing last year.

Time will tell as it ages.

It’s currently hidden behind some developer settings. On Android 15. It probably won’t be ready by the time 16 is released, but it’ll probably drop in an update.

Agreed. Graphene is a fantastic product, but the devs are absolutely insufferable.

Oh boy do I have news for you

Settings -> Text prediction -> Blacklisted Suggestions -> Block offensive words (turn it off)

Play store is a privacy nightmare. Apps you get from there are not quite the same as their non-play store equivalents, even if it’s technically the same app. Nextcloud, for example, just went through this with their Play store version. Google recently forced them to remove the “all files access” permission… You know, the entire point of Nextcloud? But the non-Play store version that you can get from F-Droid still had that permission intact.

Luckily Google backed down from the totally-couldn’t-forsee-this backlash, but still. Google puts arbitrary limitations on what can be uploaded there, and FUTO keyboard is no exception.

The swiping needs to require less precision IMO. There’s a training thing on FUTO’s website somewhere that will give you a string of words to swipe type (accessible only via mobile). That’s how they improve the swipe feature overall, but I think some people may have been too careful with it. Be sloppy, be imprecise, make it learn how normal people swipe.

Personally, I prefer a bit of sloppiness when it comes to swiping anyway - because if I wanted precision, I would actually type the words. GBoard is pretty good at figuring out that swiping s m w or a m s was probably supposed to be “and”; and other such words that aren’t super accurate when swiped. FUTO keyboard is not very good at that, at least at first haha.

I would delete that and get it either from F-Droid (I just learned about the F-Droid listing last night), or grab the APK from FUTO directly.

Try to stay away from the Play store when it comes to privacy-related stuff like this.

That’s a good question to which I don’t have an answer. I’m very much a single-language person.

Autocorrect will either “fix” common words into something else, or outright refuse to fix super common typos. You have to delete suggestions that you know you will never use, and add words and abbreviations (I use “appt” a lot, for example, the keyboard used to correct it to “and”).

This may be common knowledge for a lot of you, but some people don’t realize that you can tweak those things.

Not really. I saw the warning as well, but just went for it. Haven’t noticed a difference.

I put this in another comment, but you should see it, too:

If you go with FUTO keyboard, do these as soon as you download it:

1. Turn on the machine learning feature for swipe typing (entirely local - nothing about the keyboard phones home)
2. Allow curse words
3. Make autocorrect your bitch, and I mean really force it

If you do these things, it will - eventually - figure out your typing habits. But it’s worth it. I’ve been using it for a month or so and, outside of some odd quirks, it’s working pretty well. Even has a clipboard manager and a “paste” button (for fat-fingerers like me), among other neat tools.

Oh, and don’t forget to drop it into Obtainium so it can be updated, as it’s not offered through any app store.

If you go with FUTO keyboard, do these as soon as you download it:

1. Turn on the machine learning feature for swipe typing (entirely local - nothing about the keyboard phones home)
2. Allow curse words
3. Make autocorrect your bitch, and I mean really force it

If you do these things, it will - eventually - figure out your typing habits. But it’s worth it. I’ve been using it for a month or so and, outside of some odd quirks, it’s working pretty well. Even has a clipboard manager and a “paste” button (for fat-fingerers like me), among other neat tools.

Oh, and don’t forget to drop it into Obtainium so it can be updated, as it’s not offered through any app store.

Another vote for FUTO keyboard.

Except, the swipe feature really likes to autocorrect to the most outlandish words that have never entered into my vocabulary at any point in my nearly 40 years on this godforsaken planet.

Do you know what’s really handy when your hands are full, say, while cooking or cleaning? Having a voice assistant to handle minor tasks such as setting timers, dropping in on the device downstairs to tell the kids who are out of earshot to come up for mealtime (yet somehow they can always hear you quietly opening the oreo box no matter where they are), check the front door to see who’s friend is knocking, etc, etc.

They have their place. It’s not for everyone.

I’m less concerned with F-Droid’s UI, I’ve been using it for well over a decade now and am fairly used to it, but I absolutely get the frustration. The recent UI update is an improvement, though.

Play Store’s UI is absolutely atrocious. The ad-ridden garbage is why I just stay away from it as much as possible.

That’s a really good question for which I do not have an answer.

Not wrong, but also not mutually exclusive