I wish physical keyboards would come back. I suck at touchscreen ones
I used to hate touchscreen keyboards, but then I learned about swipe-to-text. Now I can swipe words on a digital keyboard faster than I can type them on a physical keyboard. I can’t go back to pressing individual keys now unless it’s on a desktop computer keyboard.
I’ve been trying to degoogle and this exact reason had become an obstacle. No other keyboard I’ve tried is as accurate at swipe typing as gboard. And I’ve been swiping since the feature was new, so now I’m awfully slow at key typing.
Have a look at Heliboard. It’s open source. To get swipe you have to import a component that is extracted from GBoard that doesn’t come with the app, but it can be acquired from… places.
I can’t figure swip texting lol. The perk of physical keys is I don’t have to even look at the phone to type. I can turn text-speech on use the bumps on the keyboard
And even then i always get frustrated if the full word doesn’t pop up after I’ve typed a few letters.
Only if you suck at typing I guess. I make use of swiping keyboards as well for the past… 12+ years I think.
Exectly my thoughts recently! My smartphone is starting to show some problems with its screen and it’s a Xiaomi device which makes it very hard/unpleasant to get root access to reinstall the OS (you have to download a windows app and use it to share your data and reasons for voiding your contract by asking to get root access) so I thought maybe there are non-touchscreen smartphones and when I tried looking for one I only got dumb phone suggestions and I realized that such a phone would have to have a specific version of Android that is not designed around touchscreen technology. I’m not sure what I want, but the options seem to be polar extremes without a middle ground option, something between a smartphone and a dumbphone that will be helpful in detoxifying from doom scrolling and yet still usable for productive activities.
I really hope that in the near future we’ll see some change in the direction towards smartphones that are not made only for watching videos, playing games, but to some combinations of useful ideas from both dumb and smartphones, like having a decent screen to be able to use maps and with also a “mechanical” keyboard or smth. But then again physical keys will have problems like if they would be made from cheap plastic, there always will be downsides…
I miss T9 😞
🎶 I want a girl with a short skirt and a looooooooooong Android 🎶
But what if she’s named Karen and drives a white Chrysler LeBaron?
as long as it doesn’t have a bucket seat
i just can’t believe she traded her MG for it though.
Because she’s fast, thorough, and sharp as a tack.
You have my attention.
Didn’t think I’d make it this far, don’t know what to say lol
long / 10
android the Loooooong way
8% battery. Charge your phone man
Charge your damn battery ffs
No. He just throws it away when the battery dies and gets a new phone.
FFS.
Sorry, right away! Haha
just fyi, if you go into developer settings there should be a full on Linux terminal by now i use that instead of tmux
It’s really buggy and makes my phone crash. I think after the September release it’ll be more stable.
now that you mention it, i do recall having some issues at first. not anymore tho… are you on the latest version?
edit: i stand corrected. what timing…
Yeah, I think it’ll run smoothly soon enough. I don’t really use termux all that much anyway.
Seems to only be true for Google Pixel series, with Android 16 it should come to all Android devices.
i got it on my fairphone (/e/os)
check out Andronix. I’ve been running Debian via termux for years
Great one, love it! But I would recommend UserLAnd instead of Termux🥰
Never heard of that. I’ll try it out, but let me know the differences.
Hello!! The difference between UserLAnd and Termux is that UserLAnd does not force you to use only one distro (ex. Package Manager and etc.) like Termux - Termux uses apt with their own Repo’s that might not have new package versions. Using UserLAnd, you could install any distro on your phone! Kind of like it… It feels right how it should be😇
Is UserLAnd still maintained? Assuming I found the right forge, the last activity is 4 years old. While I agree that a piece of software can simply be finished, I worry about compatibility in the moving ecosystem of Android.
Only reason im considering a razr ultra, but honestly I have minimal issues with a touch keyboard, I do rememeber having way less misclicks and typos on physical keyboards tho
Get this if you miss the feel of a physical keyboard. I want the electric blue case for Razr so badly since it is the hottest colour combo. I would never go to Razr since I need to run GrapheneOS and that is only available for Pixels at the moment.
I think the look of this case with a Razr is the coolest phone one could get.
ye but the trade in value is pretty ass, flip 7 is the btter options, hopefully this case gets copied by some aliexpress companies lol
I waited about 2-3 years for Ali express to copy them since I wanted it on my older model iPhone or my pixel but nothing could. Believe it or not I contacted manufacturers in China to build a custom case for me but all they had to work with was Samsung’s old leaked docs for their keyboard case in about 2008. Nothing of value was produced.
I cannot authorize a vertical primary terminal.
as a secondary monitor viewing logs, sure. but primary, no way
10/10
Thank you brother:)
Does it run Waydroid?
This is a pixel 9 pro running GrapheneOS and the terminal is from an app called Termux
Where did you get this keyboard case and do they make one for the Pixel 7 ?
It is by clicks.tech and my pixel 7a didn’t fit into this case (I bought a pixel 9pro just for this case). I doubt it would fit for 7, almost certain.
Yeah, looks like they only have it for the Pixel 9 and 9 Pro. Well, I’m not gona buy a new phone for that, but it looks pretty cool.
It looks like This one, but I’m not certain.
It doesn’t support pixel 7
Oh, yeah. Didn’t zoom in and thought it was PostmarketOS.
Long long Android.
Looks like a palm pre.
Where did you get the keyboard case from?
