To quote the Features; "Glide typing (only with closed source library ☹️)"
WolvenSpectre
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I find that people who come from the old days of linux will often respond "you have to use terminal", or "learn the operating system", or even balk at people saying you can just use the GUI Interface/Desktop Environments. And then when you get help from expirienced users you get allot of terminal commands, which makes people think "I can't use Linux without learning the terminal first". In actuality it is just easier to show a person a command and ask for the results than it is to walk a person through getting the same info otherwise.
"OK, which Desktop Environment are you using?".
"Desktop what?".
"Which version of OS did you download and install?".
"Cinnamon.".
"X or Wayland?".
"What's a Wayland?".
"OK, X. Is your system up to date and which kernel are you running?".
...and so on. It is faster to just help working in the terminal. The Desktop Environments are fairly far along and most that I have worked with you could get by completely in the Desktop and not touch the terminal.
I would suggest Linux Mint, but for now I would stick to the non latest version of 21.3 as they bit off ALLOT in 22 and while it works for allot of people there are driver bugs they inherited from Ubuntu and have not implemented the fix for yet and allot of other pains in the toukus so if you want a version with the minimum of troubleshooting and stable Desktop Environments I would stick to 21.3 (If I had any sense I would be switching back to it from 22 myself).
If you want another option it would be Ubuntu and its Different Desktop 'Spins' to see which you like the most. Some people prefer to start off on Fedora and I am told it has a good DE, or some people recommend PopOS which had its own spin on a DE but they have let development lag on it as they developed their Cosmic Desktop for the Wayland project (the project that is superseding the X.org project for making windows).
Which ever you choose, good luck. I am in the same boat and I am trying to learn what I can before it is too late.
SwiftKey Keyboard. There are OS keyboards and even swipe predictive text keyboards but I wish there was one that had the skinability and functionality that learned from my typing without monitoring my clipboard and reporting it to Microsoft. Yet every other keyboard I have tried has left me disappointed.
Its not much of a vulnerability, like locks, its not if it can be picked, it is how difficult it is to be picked, but the difference here is that the vulnerability is that a nation state actor, or a high capability actor can compromise it, and "it" being the thing that keeps your accounts safe.
So this is like the lock that protects all your accounts can be shimmed if it ever gets out of your control type of an issue, so not to stop using them, but to keep them secured or on your person at all times.
I hope YubiKey offers a fair upgrade program for their next series of keys and maybe a new FIDO Standard.
The drops you see coming off of canned air is the accelerant and condensation, which evaporates instantly. You shouldn't use it on a running PC because it is mildly flammable. As for the vacuum being used I was speaking of the safer way someone could use it at home, not at a shop. At the shops I worked at they all had Data Vacs which are dedicated suck/blow vacuums, along with various various anti-static attachments. They also had compressors. The use was depending on the job and cleaning up after the job. I would sometimes use the Data Vac as a way to keep the dust I would kick up with the compressor down. Then agian I have washed really bad computer motherboards to get oils, tars, or other stuff off the board to get it clean, and then give the boards an isopropyl bath to get them clean. The motherboard and air cooler has to be absolutely disgusting before I get that far into it.
As long as they use "Leader of the Free World" for their President without giving me a vote and the fact that American Policy is also very influential in my Country means that I don't have a vote but I sure as hell have an opinion, and a more educated one than many Americans. I follow American Politics and Policy daily.
Yeah they talk about this kind of stuff in this story and how it isn't going to save us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR2sYlDqdnw&t=762s
Thankfully they have made components allot more resistant to Static Discharge than when I started working with computers, but at least allot of attachments they make with them these days are static resistant.
Still, use canned air until you can buy a decent powered blower and you will be surprised at the uses you will find for it. Some even double as a small handheld vacuum so you are not pulling out the big thing to clean up small messes. Reminds me I have to get a new one soon or pick up some canned air.
Well except that if you are doing it with cards you have to worry about being skimmed. Here in Canada they have chip and pin but guess who gets stung with purchases 4 out of 5 times when it happens because it doesn't ask for the pin all the time.
Now if you do it through a smartwatch, phone, or some other device that can't be skimmed when it isn't being used, then that is the way to do it.
There are loose plans to do that here in Canada long before that, but nothing solid right now. My guess is they are going to have to move from rounding to the nickel to rounding to the dime and pricing and taxes will have to follow. From when I was a kid a penny and a nickel are worth 1/5th of what they were in purchasing power.
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FUTO swipe isn't there yet, but last I looked it was damn near what I was looking for, but the Swipe was useless. I should check it out again. And I don't like using beta software for something as important as the keyboard. I don't think I have tried Anysoft Keyboard before... I will have to check that one out.
Update Anysoft Keyboard doesn't have swipe typing and it obviously wasn't developed with English in mind. Typing in some of my secure passwords would have had me hopping between multiple screens. Great for some people but not for me.
Nice try and thanks for the suggestions. Futo is is still in Alpha and my old phone is still down so I won't be testing it either. Thanks for the suggestion.