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A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!

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  • Yrtree.me - it’s still early days for me in the Fediverse, so bear with me
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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • To enable languages: Settings > Languages & Layouts. It might just take a bit of usage for all the corrections and suggestions to kick in.

    To switch languages or keyboards: Long press the space bar.

    If you haven’t enabled number row in Preferences, just long press Q to get 1.

    I’d also recommend:

    • Downloading the emoji dictionary 👍
    • Having a root around in settings
    • Reading up on the “hidden” functionality

    The power of Heliboard, and the reason it got me to abandon Gboard where others failed, is in the last two.

    Hope that helps - I am still new to Heliboard (but I am already sold on it) and a power user might have better insight but that might be enough to get you going. If not, ask away.






  • Unlike the author, I don’t think that the internet is dying, but instead entering a new phase that resembles in some aspects the old internet: search has become unreliable and those mega-platforms enshittify themselves to death, so people shift to smaller (often non-commercial) platforms and find new content to follow by the hyperlinks provided by other people. It’s a lot like the internet before Google Search.

    It is definitely feeling like this is a trend, we are moving back to more curated ways of sharing information.

    The Fediverse feels like a return to the old, open Web before it was captured by Big Tech, just with new bells and whistles attached. With all the enshittification, it seems like it is well-placed to be the solution to the problem. It’s not there yet but it’s a start.