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>>> The stock iOS keyboard has a dictation key I always hit accidentally. I can disable it when I'm Jailbroken

General > Keyboard > Enable Dictation and then disable dictation.

The microphone on the keyboard disappears.

I agree, there are a few little things that are annoying. And I wish iOS was more like Linux, in that you could just change anything if you actually cared to. But personally I rarely run into these edge cases on iOS these days. In the early days jailbreak was mandatory.

Thank you! That has been bugging me for a long time!

I don't have an iDevice so I can't check, but you have to enter a menu entitled 'Enable Dictation' in order to remove the speech-to-text button from the keyboard?

It is an on/off toggle in a list of settings, so it reads like "Enable Dictation: false"

No, you have to go to a menu labelled ‘keyboards’ and switch off the switch labelled ‘Enable Dictation’

huh i have dictation off and its still there and i hit it often. i tried toggling on and off with no luck

Same here, it's off (been off for a while), and I still get the button on the keyboard. Tried toggling it on and off as well, but no luck.

Dictation is still there, or voice recording? I turned off dictation, but can still record voice memos or texts.

Aside: I find the concept of a voice "text" amusing and somewhat redundant with voicemail, though I can see an argument that the use cases are slightly different.

the microphone icon on bottom right. pressing it asks to enable dictation. on bottom left is emoji picker. huge spacing on both, what a stupid waste of precious vertical space

That doesn't hide the keyboard's microphone. While technically dictation is disabled, hitting the microphone asks you if you want to "enable it", or "not now". I need a "never ask me again" option.

0. ssh/d so i can transfer files like a human being, not an animal.

Starting with 0 and transferring files via ssh means you are a special kind of animal.

I mean, we're literally on Hacker News.

Circle is not complete until I see a suggestion on how you can replace iCloud with mashup scripting of sftp/rsync and cronjobs.

Those can't replace iCloud because they are free. Write the sftp/rsync script and then throw money in the garbage to accurately replace iCloud.

s/iCloud/Dropbox/g

Here on HN, mentioning Dropbox makes the circle complete.

No, the circle is not complete until an article is posted about how a 15 year old cobbled together a website/app combo that did it automatically and grew to a few million users overnight; Apple hired the kid, killed the app, and wrote a new layer of signed security into iOS that would prevent anything like that from working again; and that layer was responsible for the last iCloud outage because somebody at Apple accidentally let a certificate expire.

Does that compete at all speed-wise with just plugging it into your computer via USB? I guess your local network should be fairly fast, but I would think that USB would still be faster (not to mention that you wouldn't need to find the right file from the terminal).

> plugging it into your computer via USB

wires

>wires

and dongles. It's IOS device after all.

Copying files over USB is ludicrously slow and requires cross-device trust and exposure to dirty USB.

Let's not deceive ourselves: Apple deliberately cripples standardised data exchange mechanisms to push iCloud and aht Apple ecosystem.

The files app on ios works with smb. . . it's not sftp but it works.