Been using a degoogled LineageOS phone with all apps being exclusively FLOSS. My favourite free alternatives to proprietary apps and services must be Lemmy (Jerboa) for Reddit, ArcaneChat and Matrix (Extera) for Telegram, Fluxer for Discord.

Which ones are your favourite?

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Unexpected Keyboard and Thumb Key for two-hand and single-hand typing respectively.

Qalculate! for calc.

[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 1 points 3 days ago

I like Unexpected Keyboard, it's really intuitive once you get the hang of the swipe motions. I used to use Anysoft Keyboard but it became unusable with one of the more recent updates so I had to look for a new keyboard and found this one to my liking.

[–] myszka@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

Thumb Key is my favourite! Using it right now. Very interesting to see its idea of using swipes to type additional characters implemented in traditional qwerty layout. Thumb Key isn't the best for terminal, so it might be a good compromise.

[–] ItJustDonn@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

i liked thumb key a lot and switched to flickboard so that i could type one- and two-handed with the same keyboard for each thumb. you can even choose the thumb-key layout, and give it a custom background

[–] myszka@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Interesting. But from reading the description I don't see any advantages over Thumb Key because the latter also has two-handed layouts that can be seen in screenshots of Flickerboard. What do you find better in Flickerbourd that in Thumb Key?

[–] ItJustDonn@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

i didn't know TK had 2H layouts when i installed it years ago. i think they both have a lot of overlap in being feature-rich, with main differences (imo) being:

Thumb Key

has more 1H and 2H layouts, variations of layouts, and languages
is a tiny bit more responsive with fewer mistypes for my thumbs, but YMMV
can be further modified with YAML, which i haven't tried

Flickboard

uses long-press for 0-9, instead of a separate pad or dedicated flick gestures, which i find more intuitive
can upload images for keyboard backgrounds

i think Thumb Key has a higher ceiling if you're that kind of power user, but Flickboard has like 90% of the same goodness with an important extra little bit of aesthetic flair

[–] myszka@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Interesting, gotta check out Flickboard.

Btw, long-press for 0-9 can be enabled in Thumb Key with YAML like so:

Code

ENThumbKeySymbols:
  main:
    key0_0: { longPress: { text: "1" } }
    key0_1: { longPress: { text: "2" } }
    key0_2: { longPress: { text: "3" } }
    key1_0: { longPress: { text: "4" } }
    key1_1: { longPress: { text: "5" } }
    key1_2: { longPress: { text: "6" } }
    key2_0: { longPress: { text: "7" } }
    key2_1: { longPress: { text: "8" } }
    key2_2: { longPress: { text: "9" } }
    key3_0: { longPress: { text: "0" } }
  shifted:
    key0_0: { longPress: { text: "1" } }
    key0_1: { longPress: { text: "2" } }
    key0_2: { longPress: { text: "3" } }
    key1_0: { longPress: { text: "4" } }
    key1_1: { longPress: { text: "5" } }
    key1_2: { longPress: { text: "6" } }
    key2_0: { longPress: { text: "7" } }
    key2_1: { longPress: { text: "8" } }
    key2_2: { longPress: { text: "9" } }
    key3_0: { longPress: { text: "0" } }

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The two-handed typing you're referring to, that's 2x thumb layouts right? Not QWERTY.

[–] ItJustDonn@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

correct, 2x thumb layouts!

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Got it. Makes sense. I've used Thumb Key with 2x thumb layout so I got a bit confused. Tried flickboard, seems nice, very similar to TK indeed.