cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38292767

for English i use heliboard. but i type in other languages also, and there are no practical choices in foss keyboards for those specific languages which also have the mainstream IME/key layout for my language (not qwerty).

fcitx provides some hope for the future but for now, it also doesn’t have the IME/key layout for my language (only has qwerty). hopefully it can also have handwriting in the future somehow (if only via user-installed model/blob similar to heliboard glide typing).

anyway, I’m on Graphene OS. so i wondered if revoking network permission and setting gboard permanently to incognito (is permanent possible?) would suffice to cut off data collection?

  • aguasemgasPortuguês
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    1 day ago

    The problem with gboard is that is a google service, which is connected to google play services, which if you have, you have to let it connect to the internet.

    So unless you have a firewall where you can filtered connection between the apps or domains connected to Gboard, it does not will change much