sunset

joined 3 weeks ago
 

Hi,

Wondering if anyone has recommendations for an opensource Pinyin keyboard for Android.

Currently using FlorisBoard but it doesn't have Pinyin input only zhengma input, which seems very difficult to learn.

Tried to use one called TRIME from F-Droid but it just constantly crashes.

 

I'm looking for a silent keyboard for gaming, preferably with a UK layout.

This keyboard caught my eye but is made in China: https://varmilo.com/products/minilo75

Wondering if anyone has recommendations for companies that make keyboards?

[–] sunset@reddthat.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I just found out you can use Obtanium to make this process easy, you can just add the repo URL into the app.

[–] sunset@reddthat.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

I can do all of that and still sign the petition, it only takes 2 minutes to sign.

And with enough votes it is meaningful!

[–] sunset@reddthat.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Interesting, seems you have to download the .apk directly from their repo though, rather than any store. So I'm guessing there's no automatic updates?

[–] sunset@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I think I might give IronFox a go, just a bit weary as never heard of it before, not sure who is the owner of the project and where they are based, GitLab project only has ~125 stars.

Have you ever used the Accrescent app store? That's their recommended option for installing it.

[–] sunset@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
 

Recently there has been controversy around Mozilla Firefox.

I've been looking for an alternative but really struggling, seems like every alternative has a downside:

  • Vivaldi: Uses some proprietary code and likely not doing much better on the user data side of things, also based on Chromium.

  • Tor: Uses Tor protocol and so is quite slow, my ISP would probably also think I'm a drug lord.

  • Fennec: Basically looks the same as Firefox but guessing less up to date, F-Droid has a warning about it's using Mozilla services for tracking.

What are you guys using? Have you found anything good?

[–] sunset@reddthat.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you highlight text in nano using your keyboard I think it uses nanos built-in highlighting and doesn't allow copying to the clipboard. It has it's own built in cut and paste system, and not on the keys you would expect.

If you highlight the text with your mouse it uses the terminals highlighting and copying to your clipboard works!

Just lot's of inconsistency is what I'm saying, similar to your Firefox experience!

[–] sunset@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Yeah I know about Ctrl+Shift+C I was joking, I think we've can all relate to accidentally sending a interrupt signal every now and then!

Now tell me how to copy text from nano and paste it elsewhere! 😆

[–] sunset@reddthat.com 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] sunset@reddthat.com 33 points 3 weeks ago (22 children)

Trying to copy some text in a Linux terminal and instead just ending a process 🆘

[–] sunset@reddthat.com 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Cool the user count is going up, just hope it's not going to be all bots and trolls 😆

[–] sunset@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

When I was younger having to fill out timesheets in Excel for my mum.

Always forgetting their passwords to their accounts and having to reset their passwords for them.

Providing them access on my Netflix account and then when Netflix had the changes where you can't have it in two homes asking me why they can't get on, cancelled my subscription in the end.

Email attachments and when they go over the max attachment limit complaining about having to upload their files to the cloud.

Volunteering my help to others...

The list could go on and on.

I appreciate my parents but when it comes to helping with technology it sometimes drives me up the wall.

 

After reading this Reddit thread I had a look to see if there were any petitions to prevent this and found the petition I have linked in this post, doesn't seem to have a lot of signatures.

Please sign the petition if you agree with it 🙏

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