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If it has the word auto in it i tend to disable, remove or uninstall it. I get frustrated by every half baked implemenation to predict, correct or actson my behalf.
The only thing i mostly tolerate is auto suggest in programming IDEs. But that is on thin ice. The second it hijacks the input system its done.
TBH, Microsoft’s Swiftkey was pretty decent before they started adding Bing AI bullshit. I’ve since switched to Apple’s default keyboard and it’s painful.
I dont like autocorrect both for privacy reasons (though there might be open source ones) and for accuracy reasons. I dont want something else to write for me what it thinks I want to say. (Hence I'm using a customized keyboard in florisboard beta which looks almost the same as gboard.😌)
That's my biggest pet peeve, when it auto suggests words that don't exist.
People love to hate Rowling, but her descriptions of magic are very perceptive as predictions of computing.
Like in this case. Both Skeeter with her magic quill (LLM as it is) and the spell-checking quills (I think Ron liked that he could write much faster with those at first, so either he's as smart as a neanderthal, or they "improve" not only orthography).
And Snape's invented spells and how he doesn't really like their popularity remind me of script-kiddies.
I think I've read a fanfic where Hogwarts was converted into some kind of a "school for hackers" (in that early 00s spirit, think Lara Croft and Spy Kids movies). The universe was generally the same, only magic was replaced with that.
... What?
What what?
~~I really don't get people who express their inability to understand something without a specific question. As if being dumb were something to be proud of.~~
EDIT: Sorry, was thinking of an unpleasant thing.
This thread is about predictive typing and your post was so barely tangentially related as to be a non-sequitur. So again I ask: What?
and your post was so barely tangentially related as to be a non-sequitur
Which is your opinion, not accompanied with anything to help me care. Again, if a certain connection or association is real, but still feels out of place for you, then the problem is likely with yourself and doesn't concern me.
Since iOS 17, I have had no problems with text input. It feels better than anything that preceded it which I used on Apple or other platforms. That is true for swiping or typing and in either of the two languages I use. I’m actually blown away by how good it is sometime, correcting words based on the clause around it.
I also have an S10 Lite that I keep up to date. The native input there is okay, but not nearly as accurate.
Autocorrect is slave-mentality
It’s a privacy issue. To predict, the service would have to get to know you better and there are privacy problems with that.
They just can’t seem to figure out a way NOT to be invasive. Go figure.
Hard disagree. I'm using g board, from Alphabet, which is about as concerned with privacy as a nudist exhibitionist with a shame kink. That is to say, privacy as a concept exists yes, but only to be perverted.
The only comfort is that I'm not the only one with random capitalization in my texts
Oh what. Is that really why? Ffs this is one of the things I'll happily consent to
SwiftKey is dope
I think the major problem is that culture is evolving so rapidly that keyboard dictionaries can't keep up with new words.
