i disable autocorrect because i hate it when it guesses the wrong word much more than i dislike making a typo.
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This is ducking unhinged.
So... You do correct autocorrect (or don't enable it). It's not going to change what you text to non-words.
This needed to be said. You are a hero among men
Is it just me, or does autocorrect paper-over the fact that touch-screen keyboards are kind of garbage?
For me, turning off autocorrect reveals how hard it is to be both accurate and precise with key presses on these things.
Happens to me all the time. I also find even when I use proper grammar it will get messed up when I post. Because I read over it before I post and still isn't right. Most times I say fuck it. I just hate using a tiny keyboard, but I am not sitting at a desk doing Lemmy all day.
I've been using thumbkey for a while now. The first few days were torture but once you're used to it there's no going back.
Flickboard over here, I don't necessarily type as fast as I did with qwerty, but my sentences don't get horribly garbled with the wrong letters all over the place
What I hate is my puritanical auto correct that tries to correct all my swear words and doesn’t recognize “harmful worda” like suicide. Who are you helping by auto correcting my swear words?
I actually wanted to type duck the other day and it autocorrected to fuck…I was kind of proud. I’ve finally corrected it so many times it learned!
... or maybe it's just that you have very rarely intentionally used "duck".
Remember that the majority of people just accept whatever is handed to them and won't put forth any effort to circumvent any kind of adversity of even inconvenience. Other dipshits read a lot of Orwell and now they think they can shape thought by censoring or at least adding obstacles to the act of writing.
The annoying thing is, the latter are probably right.
And when you tell people how dangerous it is you get told youre paranoid power tripping etc.
The annoying thing is, the latter are probably right.
In a transient way, yes. But culture always circles around obstacles eventually.
I still fight autocorrect because I don't want it to ducking correct me when I type duck. I mean duck. DUCK DUCK
With swype, there's a whole new generation of typos - swypos.
Today I asked a coworker to check the robot. But the text said check the double. To attempt to decode a swypo you have to use a combination of guesswork and looking at the trace path for the suspect word to see if it might be close to your guess.
So i use the swipe to make words, but when i hand type out the word, i do not expect auto correct to assist me, and it won’t… until i move on to another word, then It sneakily changes it.
Just tun it off then? Why is everyone struggeling with this so much?
Because it genuinely used to make fewer mistakes just a few years ago, and has noticeably worsened
Autocorrect used to be so much better. Now it is incapable of leaving contractions alone, so people think I’m possessive of objects or humanizing them. You don’t accjdentally an “it’s.” Autocorrect is tarnishing my reputation with grammar nazis, and I’m afraid I’ll have to become a grammar communist, but red isn’t flattering for my complexion.
Autocorrect is tarnishing my reputation with grammar nazis
accjdentally
I'm sorry. ❤️
Why do you have to give apology to me? Now I must distribute among proletariat.
My problem is that sentences end up like the meme, where autocorrect does nothing to address the typo.
It loves leaving words like anf alone, even though it's not a word.
I don't understand this. If I'm typing on a computer and I make a typo, I'll fix it. Why not on my phone with autocorrect? Either have it on and fix the "errors" (more like false positives) it makes, or turn it off. 🤷♂️👍
I keep turning it off, but it always finds its way back on somehow. It pisses me off.
Which keyboard do you use, out of curiosity?
I was using Google's until recently. Now I am using FUTO.
Ah yeah. I tried FUTO but I felt like it was less accurate than GBoard. Otherwise I would definitely use it. Great product for the price. 😁
Naw, trying to fix the corrected correction for autocorrect is so annoying. Agreed with the computer scenario but with phone…… maybe if it was a flip phone, you have more con control with that, not a “smart” phone.
I'm going to just take a guess: Most people who have a problem with autocorrect type each letter individually by pressing each letter?
I almost never have an issue with autocorrect because I type in either of two ways:
- Swipe typing, which is way faster than normal typing IMO. And on the occasion that there's a collision with the swipe motion, all I have to do is press the incorrect word on the text, and select the correct one from a tiny list of three most common words with that similar motion. Never fails, very quick.
- Typing each letter individually, but here I just start typing the beginning of the word, then I pick the suggestion from the top of the keyboard to complete the word without having to type the whole thing out. Also way faster than normal typing. Often using this method, I don't even have to start typing the word at all, or just a single letter, or a couple of letters is enough.
In both cases, correcting is very fast. Much faster than corrections using a real, physical keyboard, which you said you would do. So really, logically I have no reason to be annoyed with autocorrect — and I am also actually not annoyed with it. 👍
I hope this might help someone.
I’m going to just take a guess: Most people who have a problem with autocorrect type each letter individually by pressing each letter?
Possibly. I'm in that group, for what it's worth.
- Was unaware that was even a thing. As a long-time touch-typist, doing this never even occurred to me. And I know how to use Palm Pilot Graffiti input, so I'm admittedly embarrassed here.
- My vocabulary is broader than the auto-complete's dictionary/prediction, so what I want to say isn't even a suggestion more than half of the time. I've struggled with this since iOS 3, and most recently on Android. It's never been very useful for me.
Then there is/was this feature that resizes key hitboxes on the fly, based on prediction. I'm unaware if that's still a thing, but at the time, it absolutely screwed with my thumb-typing muscle-memory in the worst way. Until I learned about this, I was convinced that I was just garbage at hitting the keys, then I started seeing it mis-register keypresses when I looked closely.
From all that I think I see the problem. These systems are compromises for a huge range of different users and communication styles. So it's going to be pretty mid for a lot of folks until (people like me) move to the middle where the software wants people to be. Were it not for the sake of clear, personalized, and expressive communication, I'd be on board with that.
- Was unaware that was even a thing.
It's been pretty great for single-thumb typing ever since it started being common, many years ago.
- My vocabulary is broader than the auto-complete's dictionary/prediction, so what I want to say isn't even a suggestion more than half of the time.
Could you give me an example of this? Also which keyboard do you use as input? iOS/Android?
I'm using whatever the stock keyboard is on Google Android. Since we're on the topic, I'm open to suggestions. Especially if I'm going to re-train to swiping inputs.
It's hard to pin down anything specific as an example. If I had to sum it up, its usually where I want to use a long word with a common root for others. There could be eight or so different ways to go for auto-completion, but my choice is seldom in the top three.
the stock keyboard is on Google Android. Since we're on the topic, I'm open to suggestions.
Is the stock keyboard GBoard nowadays? That's what I use. It has swipe typing built-in. But if you want more privacy, I'd try FUTO keyboard. It's pretty darn solid IMO, especially for a FOSS and gratis keyboard.
I‘m in this picture and i don‘t care anymore.
Autocorrect seems to have gotten worse? i remember it working better, but now I find it happily inserts incorrect words and leads to a false sense of security. I turned it off and just look for the red underlines to tell me I screwed up.
In the last 5 years autocorrect appears to have got horrendous.
The amount of times it changes on to in or splits a word up in to totally different words 🤬
Typos are usually easier to figure out than when people pick the wrong word in autocorrect.
Big if truce
Yeah this isn't correcting auticorrect, it's disabling it.
Full manual baybeeeeee
I'm the type to disable autocorrect everywhere, so if I fuck it up, I fuck it up. :)
I... don't think we can be friends.
This 1000%
Also, if my voice to text program uses the wrong word. I'm probably not going to fix it. Obviously this has problems with homonyms, they're there and there for example. But also some great noisy environment issues
your dictate app seems to struggle with punctuation. If you send people texts w/o explain that you use speech-to-text, they might think you are struggling with basic grammar. Just a heads up
The people who get direct texts from me have much bigger concerns then my grammar.
ooh a selfburn, those are rare ^^
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