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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to DeGoogle - Canada@lemmy.ca · 2 months ago

No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gboard

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No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gboard

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to DeGoogle - Canada@lemmy.ca · 2 months ago
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A lot of Gboard beta users are suddenly remembering they joined the beta.
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    squircle please

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    @Sunshine 🤣 For me, it may be something to use in safe mode.

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    It’s not made for you, it’s made for looking “neat”…

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    Looks like it’s futo keyboard time!

    The one advantage gboard had was the ability to use multiple languages at once without switching. Otherwise I’m happy with my locally run LLM autocorrect and voice to text.

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