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Re:No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gb... by globular-toast on Friday March 07, 2025 @03:22PM (#43294124)
Are there any decent but basic swipe keyboards? Swiftkey was miles better than Gboard, but Microsoft acquired it and made it crap. It's got AI in it now apparently...
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Re:No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gb... by cjs_ac on Friday March 07, 2025 @03:32PM (#43294267)
Futo Keyboard is pretty good: https://keyboard.futo.org/
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Re:No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gb... by fxtentacle on Friday March 07, 2025 @04:08PM (#43294682)
It also has local AI for offline voice recognition, which works really well for me.
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Re:No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gb... by eth0up on Friday March 07, 2025 @07:01PM (#43296157)
I hate Ghoulgle's keyboard, somewhat passionately when I'm feeling peaceful.

I once installed a 3rd party keyboard and was naive enough to disable gboard. I was of course very pleased to find no method of entering my creds upon reboot. I had to reinstall.

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Re:No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gb... by talesfromearth on Saturday March 08, 2025 @04:47AM (#43298877)
I loved this keyboard when I had an Android phone. Its voice typing accuracy was very good. iOS voice typing leaves so much to be desired.
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Re:No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gb... by jjk7 on Friday March 07, 2025 @03:25PM (#43294169)
They've all gone to crap unfortunately, like much of consumer software imo.
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