• TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8 months

    They’re openly disdainful of all things Open Source and OSI, and their software is not Open Source.

    They’re a fully for-profit company using consumer rights kind of rhetoric to manipulate people in service to FUTO’s own pocketbook. Don’t fall for their use of the .org tld or promises to “never abuse customers”.

    I’ve written many times about what assholes FUTO is. I’m fully convinced they’re way more part of the problem than part of the solution and they’re not to be trusted.

    They’ve soured me on Rossman. Back when he was doing coverage of things like the court cases around right to repair and tractors and stuff, I watched a few videos of his and thought he was awesome. And then he got involved with FUTO and started billing Grayjay as “Open Source” and I’ve gotten sufficiently disillusioned with FUTO that I haven’t followed Rossman at all. I’ve got coworkers changing their avatars to Clippy and shit, and I believe their hearts are in the right place, but I can’t in good conscience really get behind anything or anyone associated with FUTO.

    Edit: Oh. I honesty didn’t even see this OP was a link to an article. Lol. Now I’m very interested to go read that article.

    Edit 2: Shite. I’ve now read the article. I knew FUTO was assholes in a lot of different ways, but now I know how deeply, completely irredeemable they really are.

  • dustyData@lemmy.world
    8 months

    Why does every mobile keyboard developer have some controversial shit? I just want to text in peace.

      • dustyData@lemmy.world
        8 months

        The only thing I dislike of heliboard is their swipe function requires Google binaries. Most FOSS keyboards either lack some feature I use or are immersed in wild controversies.

        • uninvitedguest@piefed.caEnglish
          8 months

          And the implementation is nowhere as good as gboard.

          Futo’s keyboard isn’t much better for slide to type. I find myself switching keyboards back to gboard when I’m not using voice to text or two thumbs.

          • Kami@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            8 months

            I mean, I can’t complain about HeliBoard’s swiping feature, especially considering the alternatives.

      • balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one
        8 months

        It looks neat but what an absolutely stupid take from a keyboard author

        Because it trusts you to write what you meant to write.

        Butch if I didn’t let it correct me I’d have to actually mook st the keyboard and who the fuck wants to do thatm.

        Phones are tiny and humans are clumsy. I absolutely never mean what I type, as you can see above.