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School of How posted:Does anyone know of an app I can use to navigate off road? Where I live there are tons of dirt roads that go off into the wilderness that are not mapped in the google maps system so I can't use google maps for navigation. I can see the roads clearly in google earth, but they are just not in the system. These roads go all over the place and make a ton of intersections with other roads and of course there are no road signs anywhere. Have you checked if OpenStreetMap has them? If so, I forgot what the best available app for using those maps is called but it should be pretty easy to find.
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What mode of transportation? Gaia and Trailforks come with an outside+ subscription. Trailiis prob best for bike (gravel|MTB) and Gaia is supposed to be good for 4x4 off road driving. It's like $3/mo right now.
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Nov 24, 2022 03:34
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I use OsmAnd for motorcycle/dirt bike routes. Even if the road/path isn't on OpenStreetMaps, you can set points in the app or load a GPX file. My main negative is that it's not always user friendly.
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Nov 24, 2022 12:35
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I use TOTP Authenticator, apparently. I haven't seen the name as more than "Authentica..." or thought about it in as long as I can remember because it pretty much just works. I know I've gotten a new phone since I started using it so apparently it can export and import; if it couldn't, there'd be no point using it over the google app. And that's how it should be, right? More applications should be "I don't have to think about it" On that note, isn't there a Google authenticator? I use Authy at the moment but I'm considering moving (the next time I change phones) just to have something that's supported by the big companies and isn't going to go away
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Nov 24, 2022 14:43
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nonathlon posted:And that's how it should be, right? More applications should be "I don't have to think about it" There is a google branded one yes. The advantage of Authy and others is that you can backup the token. I don't believe the google one will let you do that.
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Nov 24, 2022 14:54
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Google Authenticator can transfer from one phone to another with a generated QR code, but that's it as far as "backing up" goes. Also lol at Google and any software/service sticking around. I use Google Authenticator, but I keep a printout of each of my original QR codes as my backup.
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Nov 24, 2022 15:36
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sirbeefalot posted:I use Google Authenticator, but I keep a printout of each of my original QR codes as my backup. I really need to go through my emergency passwords and such. Haven't done that in a while, need to double check I have everything I need. This QR code printout idea is neat, too. I've also been considering getting a safety deposit box at the bank as a way to keep this stuff out of the house in case of fire or theft, too...
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Nov 24, 2022 15:58
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School of How posted:Does anyone know of an app I can use to navigate off road? Where I live there are tons of dirt roads that go off into the wilderness that are not mapped in the google maps system so I can't use google maps for navigation. I can see the roads clearly in google earth, but they are just not in the system. These roads go all over the place and make a ton of intersections with other roads and of course there are no road signs anywhere. deong posted:What mode of transportation? Yes, I use Gaia for this. I primarily use it for hiking, though. I've also heard good things about OnX Offroad. I've never tried it myself. It also requires a subscription like Gaia. You can usually find free trials for either if you search around online.
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Nov 24, 2022 17:54
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Are Fleksy/Swype/Swiftkey/Minuum still the major choices for keyboards? Swiftkey has been Bad lately so I'm shopping around
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Nov 26, 2022 01:39
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YggiDee posted:Are Fleksy/Swype/Swiftkey/Minuum still the major choices for keyboards? Swiftkey has been Bad lately so I'm shopping around Also curious if there any new players on the keyboard scene. I'm starting to lose patience with SwiftKey and I don't really like Gboard (though that might just be not being used to it). Unrelated, is Unified Remote still the best for controlling a PC through my phone? (I don't need anything fancy, just to be able to launch and control a streaming video web page or something)
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Nov 26, 2022 17:52
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docbeard posted:Also curious if there any new players on the keyboard scene. I'm starting to lose patience with SwiftKey and I don't really like Gboard (though that might just be not being used to it). Didn't you recently upgrade to a newer Pixel? I'd suggest giving Gboard another try - I had been using SwiftKey on my Motorola as my swiping keyboard of choice, but the tighter integration of the Pixel AI and Gboard has made it the better experience for me on my Pixel 6. The predictive typing is way better, and it screws up way less often for me. About remote controls, I'm not familiar with Unified Remote, but KDE Connect serves that purpose for me. It's cross-platform, and on Windows is available in the Windows Store.
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Nov 26, 2022 23:01
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Didn't you recently upgrade to a newer Pixel? I'd suggest giving Gboard another try - I had been using SwiftKey on my Motorola as my swiping keyboard of choice, but the tighter integration of the Pixel AI and Gboard has made it the better experience for me on my Pixel 6. The predictive typing is way better, and it screws up way less often for me. I tried it the other day and it bugged me but it's probably just down to little differences I can get used to, so I will probably give it another chance. I'll look into KDE Connect, thank you. I used Unified Remote years ago and it worked reasonably well but that was a couple of phones and computers ago and I have no idea of the state of it today.
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Nov 27, 2022 00:42
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Didn't you recently upgrade to a newer Pixel? I'd suggest giving Gboard another try - I had been using SwiftKey on my Motorola as my swiping keyboard of choice, but the tighter integration of the Pixel AI and Gboard has made it the better experience for me on my Pixel 6. The predictive typing is way better, and it screws up way less often for me. My Gboard misses a lot of things. Literally EVERY time I'm trying to type character it thinks I'm putting in charcuterie. Come on Google, you harvest all my data, you know I'm never using that word.
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Nov 27, 2022 04:07
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Medullah posted:My Gboard misses a lot of things. Literally EVERY time I'm trying to type character it thinks I'm putting in charcuterie. Come on Google, you harvest all my data, you know I'm never using that word. On the contrary, you use that word all the time! Before you type character! AI is the future! Grumpwagon fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Nov 28, 2022 |
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Nov 27, 2022 15:24
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Medullah posted:My Gboard misses a lot of things. Literally EVERY time I'm trying to type character it thinks I'm putting in charcuterie. Come on Google, you harvest all my data, you know I'm never using that word. You're on an older Pixel, aren't you? I'm not sure if the improvements to how Gboard works translate back farther than the 6 generation. I don't know, but I had the impression it was a benefit from Tensor.
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Nov 27, 2022 23:22
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CaptainSarcastic posted:You're on an older Pixel, aren't you? I'm not sure if the improvements to how Gboard works translate back farther than the 6 generation. I don't know, but I had the impression it was a benefit from Tensor. Nah I'm on a 6 Pro
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Nov 27, 2022 23:25
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Medullah posted:Nah I'm on a 6 Pro Nevermind, then. Apparently Google just thinks you should up your appetizer game.
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Nov 27, 2022 23:26
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I just want a keyboard that doesn't autocorrect "in" to "on" and vice-versa while autocorrecting all the other words. I am giving Gboard another shot right now, as Swiftkey is really aggressive lately. I miss the punctuation shortcut and the long-press spacebar to move the cursor ability, but so far it's a lot better than I remember. Back in 2020 when I got my Pixel 5 it was unusable but now it's fine. We'll see if I stick with it.
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Nov 28, 2022 17:46
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Gboard has long press space to scroll cursor, and I don't know exactly what punctuation shortcut you want but long press . and see if that does what you want.
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Nov 28, 2022 17:58
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sourdough posted:Gboard has long press space to scroll cursor, and I don't know exactly what punctuation shortcut you want but long press . and see if that does what you want. I got the cursor to go left & right so that'll do! Swiftkey has this thing where long pressing the . key and sliding over gives access to !, ?, and ,. It's really convenient. But I'll put up with a lot not to have in and on swapped.
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Nov 28, 2022 18:17
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effika posted:I got the cursor to go left & right so that'll do! That sounds very similar to long pressing it on Gboard 
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Nov 28, 2022 18:23
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sourdough posted:That sounds very similar to long pressing it on Gboard On Gboard a long press brings up all the punctuation, but on Swiftkey, just swiping from the period left gives you an exclamation point and right gives a question mark. It's much faster.
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Nov 28, 2022 18:35
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Rap Game Goku posted:On Gboard a long press brings up all the punctuation, but on Swiftkey, just swiping from the period left gives you an exclamation point and right gives a question mark. It's much faster. There's an option in the keyboard preferences for ''Long-press for symbols" which means you can just long-press e.g. the n (for !) or m (for ?) keys. It makes the keyboard a little more cluttered looking, but it might be worth trying out.
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Nov 28, 2022 19:26
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Rap Game Goku posted:On Gboard a long press brings up all the punctuation, but on Swiftkey, just swiping from the period left gives you an exclamation point and right gives a question mark. It's much faster. Ah interesting, that's cool
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Nov 28, 2022 19:43
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Huh? No! There is another long press option for symbols Here I am using it, and showing the one the poster recommended https://i.imgur.com/SVm78sa.mp4
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Nov 28, 2022 20:06
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Rap Game Goku posted:On Gboard a long press brings up all the punctuation, but on Swiftkey, just swiping from the period left gives you an exclamation point and right gives a question mark. It's much faster. i still miss the ctrl+a/c/v/p type feature on swype. Gboard will never be good enough for me until they add that.
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Nov 28, 2022 21:21
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Stevie Lee posted:i still miss the ctrl+a/c/v/p type feature on swype. Gboard will never be good enough for me until they add that. I miss swiping up beyond the keyboard to capitalize something while still swyping 
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Nov 28, 2022 22:57
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Chaotic Flame posted:I miss swiping up beyond the keyboard to capitalize something while still swyping Same, and also remembering that I don't have to circle my double letters. And getting used to not needing to swipe over to the space bar from the comma/period as well as that Gboard just puts that in automatically. I'd also like it if I could tweak the accuracy a bit because I tend to overshoot letters and it doesn't always figure out the word I'm after, especially if it's a two or three letter word.
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Nov 29, 2022 06:07
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Chaotic Flame posted:I miss swiping up beyond the keyboard to capitalize something while still swyping oh yeah that too. god google sucks
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Nov 29, 2022 06:34
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Swype is one of those apps that was like best-in-class and then got quietly abandoned for whatever reason. I remember getting annoyed that Swype was getting less and less accurate over time, finally looking into it and finding out it had been discontinued a year or two prior. Less well-known but similar was the app Couple, a private communication app intended for, well, couples. It was great, and had stuff like a shared shopping list that was actually useful, but it also quietly got abandoned. Between is the best replacement for it I've found, but the fact it's a Korean app with less than perfect internationalization takes some of the shine off it.
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Nov 29, 2022 09:53
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Well Swype's owned by Microsoft as of a few months ago thanks to them buying Nuance, maybe they'll create Microsoft Keyboard sometime. Their Android launcher's pro-tier great, after all. Wait, MS already had SwiftKey, didn't they. Well, maybe they'll merge them. What happened to SwiftKey?
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Nov 29, 2022 10:05
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MikeJF posted:Well Swype's owned by Microsoft as of a few months ago thanks to them buying Nuance, maybe they'll create Microsoft Keyboard sometime. Their Android launcher's pro-tier great, after all. SwiftKey is still around and going strong. They recently pulled it from iPhones but quickly, like within days, returned it. Swype was killed in 2018, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swype
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Nov 29, 2022 10:10
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Swype was killed in 2018, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swype Yeah, I know, I was just saying, Microsoft bought the company that owned Swype earlier this year so maybe they'll dig it out of the old repos. Probably not though, way too hard to merge technologies like that
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Nov 29, 2022 10:27
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I remember getting annoyed that Swype was getting less and less accurate over time, finally looking into it and finding out it had been discontinued a year or two prior. I keep hearing this about old keyboard apps, but why/how does accuracy drop over time if it's no longer worked on? I think SwiftKey gets updates for new/popular words being used.
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Nov 29, 2022 14:30
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MikeJF posted:Yeah, I know, I was just saying, Microsoft bought the company that owned Swype earlier this year so maybe they'll dig it out of the old repos. Probably not though, way too hard to merge technologies like that They already own SwiftKey, so don't expect them to bring Swype back.
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Nov 29, 2022 15:58
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Kheldarn posted:They already own SwiftKey, so don't expect them to bring Swype back. More likely is that they did it to get a bunch of patents before someone else could snatch them and try to patent-troll MS.
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Nov 29, 2022 17:09
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Swiftkey just started throwing out complete nonsense in my autocorrect, fixing correct spellings to incorrect ones, changing, for example, "Thinking" to "Think ING". Absolutely deranged. Also a few days ago it stopped loading the keyboard, just putting up a large blank square where the keyboard went and expecting me to type with invisible keys. So I've tossed it. I'm Gboard (fine, I guess) and minuum (not updated since 2017 but I like it so far!)
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Nov 29, 2022 17:14
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Yeah SwiftKey has got pretty bad recently, but it's still better than anything else I've tried I miss fleksy but it's not updated in so long it doesn't work with the 'new' auto fill api
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Nov 29, 2022 18:17
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No matter how many times I tell SwiftKey to unlearn these nonwords it keeps being like, oh, you typed 'might'? You meant 'miggt'. No I didn't! Stop that!
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Yeah, my main issue with SwiftKey is that it gives me nonsense suggestions and is very aggressive with additional features I don't need or want. I'm slowly getting used to GBoard and it's...yeah, it's fine. Unrelated, I'm seeing really poor performance of the new Steam Chat app on my P7 Pro, which I was not seeing on my 3aXL. Not sure if there's anything to be done, though.
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