[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Is it just me or is that absolute garbage quality for the price?

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by extremeboredom@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

If you use the privacy respecting Gboard alternative called FUTO keyboard, you've probably noticed that the built in swipe typing is HOT GARBAGE. (Typing this currently with two thumbs for this exact reason.)

Most keyboards improve their swipe algorithms by simply spying on you and logging your typing data. FUTO isn't about that, so they have built a simple webpage based typing game that you can use to improve their system in an ethical and voluntary manner! Just swipe the website's keyboard to type a provided sentence.

I love this, they can crowdsource the improvement without invading privacy!

Share with any relevant communities you're a part of. The more data, the better this gets.

[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 91 points 4 months ago

Couldn't possibly agree more. One of the biggest barriers to sharing my enthusiasm for Linux with my friends is filtering out all of the cringey anime weeb shit that somehow gets posted along with it. Why does open source software need to be associated with creepy drawings of little girls? Absolutely the worst vibes.

[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago

How about TWO layers of tissue? Checkmate, scientists.

Signed, the toilet seat nest-builders of the world.

[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 114 points 5 months ago

LOL I always knew that creepy Life360 shit would come back to bite people in the ass eventually.

[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 127 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They probably will. They're aware of and actively foster the "in-group" psychology that plays out in youth social circles. Anyone with a non-Apple phone is excluded as lower class, weird, or less-than. You don't get included in the group chats that are often the center of your peers' social lives because no one wants the annoyance of dealing with the limitations of conversing with a green bubble. You must conform, purchase the correct products, and sign over your life to the correct social media platforms if you want to participate in society.

[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 41 points 5 months ago

Good Lord. Was Dungeons and Dragons conceived and engineered from the ground up for the specific purpose of exploiting the dopamine pathways in children's brains? Not so much. Sounds like tiktok has successfully eroded the minds of others in this thread.

[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 52 points 5 months ago

The kids are exposed to these hyper addictive algorithms, and the garbage content that gains ubiquity as a result, from a super young age. There is no way it's not screwing up development.

[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 51 points 5 months ago

..... Yarrrrr mateys

[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 41 points 5 months ago

The artist really captured the soul of his subject

[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago

Why does he appear embalmed in the thumbnail?

[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 45 points 6 months ago

It's a strategy to push customers toward the more expensive models. Their markup is massive, it's a blatant profit move.

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