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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • Thanks for the recommendation! It looks really good so far. Well, except for the swipe typing. If they can perfect swipe typing, I’d be so impressed. Even Gboard does it terribly. I noticed they have a public website to help train swiping. That’s neat. https://swipe.futo.org/

    After I tap a suggestion , if I hit a punctuation key , it leaves a space after the word . (like in that sentence .) Gboard removes the space automatically, and Heliboard doesn’t add it to begin with.

    Turns out, you can turn off automatic spaces entirely, and that feels better.

    There’s a github for issue tacking and a Discord for discussions. These are good signs. I really like what I see so far.


  • It was eerie. I’m just telling you what my honest impression was. The thread was “What’s your favorite Android keyboard?” and like 8 of the first 10 comments were for Florisboard, despite it being far behind other keyboards, and I had never even heard of it. It made me feel it was some sort of scam keyboard. It’s similar to a situation where if every YouTube influencer is telling me I need to insall something, that’s a giant red flag. Especially when that thing was objectively worse than other options at the time.

    Don’t tell me I can’t comment with my honest experiences.

    And here you are touting a feature that other keyboards have had for years.


  • Why not HeliBoard?

    Last time I saw anyone mention FlorisBoard, a whole post’s comments section was recommending it. Almost like the post got brigaded by astroturfers shilling FlorisBoard. At the time it didn’t even have autocorrect or other basic features. It felt like the Twilight zone.

    Now, I don’t trust anyone who recommends it because it had literally no features over an already established keyboard like HeliBoard, yet a entire post of evangelists coming out of the woodwork. Makes no sense.



  • Here are a couple of clear screenshots from the video.

    Features:

    Paddle
    D-pad
    Trackball
    Keypad
    Face buttons
    Shoulder buttons
    Full-sized HDMI out?
    Headphone jack

    It’s pretty cool that it has all the inputs required to play every Atari home console game and even many arcade games. Having a paddle for games like Tempest is awesome. The trackball, however, was never designed for thumb use. In games like Crystal Castles or Marble Madness, you have to go nuts on it with your hands to be any good. Maybe it lets you dial up the sensitivity.







  • What does that mean? Like, what are you invisioning? Forced government housing for all? No one is allowed to own a plot of land with a house style of their choice?

    I want to live in a cabin in the woods. My friend wants a 4 bedroom colonial because he wants kids. How can we have the freedom to have these things unless we are allowed to buy and sell homes to each other?