And furthermore - the companies in question are true megacorps, ie evey bit of additional power/money they get (and for the matter of this pov: you give them) goes to absolutely the shorties practices and abuses ever.
It’s a moral thing - I protect my data for the same reason I recycle or consider my (indirect*) carbon footprint.
(*indirect bcs more like which companies or people I support)
With your data you support misinformation, deregulation lobbying, (any) government shitty things, ad culture, anything to protect the stock market as-is or their stock falls, dogshit approach to keeping their respective monology over their market, … and their size and reach allows them to just be bigger than a lot of things like municipalities, even smol countries, the quid-pro-quo aint in the peoples favor.
I simplified example (bcs someone else already made it happen) - imagine, if Google autonomous cars go on sale, suddenly railways projects disappear around you.
My native language is pretty niche, and I have since remembered that I did have a few funny suggestions at the beginning, however I now dont really differentiate between Heli & g. But the same goes for gboard & Swyft, it needs a few weeks at the beginning.
Also info about my use - I never have autocorrect on (only suggestions), mostly use gestures, and dont use the system personal dictatory but the one in Heli folders.
Yesterday I’ve uninstalled 1.0, installed 1.2, and restored a backup. Works just like before.
Idk, it works for me perfectly (I assume you downloaded necessary dictionaries).
Maybe it’s the learning type and still learning? I only ever added a few words to the dictionary and all of those are bcs I intentionally spell them wrong.
Also iirc you can set it to automatically add words to your dictionary after a certain number of times you typed it (eg if I type twice snailporn the third time should be suggested or considered while gesturing).
Yes, this.
Highly customisable, fast, multi language (so you don’t have to switch), and you can even load in (a degoogled, but still proprietary) swiping library - so it swipes like gboard, looks however you like, it’s fully local, and it’s open.
Earlier this month they published 1.0 alpha but do install the 1.2 version from github for easier future updates (new signature): github/Helium314/HeliBoard.
Yeah, I mean, neither are corporations, especially when there is no oversight, no sanctions, and no real alternatives for regular workers.
Also not sharing data for profit or lending it for private sector AI training. And it’s not like developed countries get their data stolen as regularly as corps do. And eg financial regulators are pretty strict on data security (CISO things) + a lot of new directives concerning data are just about to come in force.
That just goes for all db.