sunset

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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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.