I dont, because I dont feel like getting correxted by a fucjing program. So whay if I make a lotvof typos?
Red squigglies, yes.
Auto-correction, fuck no. Not on anything except maybe in visual studio for snippets because it actually matters.
Anywhere else, though, just get better at typing and have fun embracing imperfections and silly typos.
Literally, to err is human.
… To fix errors, divine.
Autocorrect on the phone, suggestions on computer. Grammar check is junk, though, as 95% of the world isn’t - checks notes - American, and don’t follow the prophet Webster.
Yes. Autocorrect has gotten better and better with my typing as it learns the words I type. It takes into account where on the wrong letters that I’m typing to figure out the actual word. I’m pretty fast at typing on my phone.
Yes, I gave far finders.
I use it on my phone for text messages, but I’ve realized that over the years, I’m starting to forget how to spell some words. I should probably stop using it to reprogram my brain.
Not autocorrect, but I let my phone suggest words and manually choose the one I want because I’m unable to write without mistakes on touch screen keyboards.
On my PC I don’t use anything like that.
For anything on my PC, usually yes. For texting or simple messaging, yes. For Lemmy, no, any spelling errors here are genuine human fuck-ups.
I do, but boy am I looking for a better keyboard, gboard has really gone downhill, I mean it was never great but it’s just straight up putting completely wrong totally unrelated words in place of REAL FUCKING WORDS. I miss pre-microsoft swiftkey, they had the best text prediction I’ve ever used. I remember in college my friend and I had a convo about how it was so good that he would have a full text to his dad perfectly predicted and he felt bad because he basically let a robot do the thinking for him lol. Now it’s been gutted by microsoft, and they text correction is just as janky as gboard.
I use gboard. It has great emojis and gifs so I don’t wanna stop.
If you type or swipe in a word (I primarily swipe) and it comes out wrong, you can tap and hold the suggestion word that you hate, and drag it upwards to the garbage to remove it as a suggestion.
No longer do I get “Ave” when I’m trying to swipe in “and”. Or any random proper nouns. It should basically never suggest proper nouns or abnormal words. If you want those, you should have to type them in manually, correctly, first.
Swype & Dragon was the predecessor of Swiftkey, and even though it was deprecated 7 years ago, it still works great if you get hold of an old apk.
I’ve heard that Android versions greater than 12 refuse to install it due to some outdated software api check, but there’s a friendly guy on the xda-dev forum who released a patched version.
Oh nice I’ll look into that! I have a rooted phone so I’m sure I could get it installed haha
Yes, to my determinate
I have it on but I do toy with the idea of turning it off occasionally.
My biggest problem with typing is I will “accidentally a word” a lot in sentences.
Try it. It’s quite freeing ;)
No and never have as I simply don’t feel like I have the need for it. I didn’t even when my phone only had a physical numpad.
Yes. Disabled, faster.
I did, but I just turned it off two seconds ago. I had been fed up for a while with all the “ducking” and other stupid autocorrects that I did not intend. I can type well enough and if not, that’s on me. But autocorrect makes worse errors than I do. I usually proof read my texts anyways, so that should catch 99% of all preventable errors.
Add those words to your dictionary to stop them from autocorrecting. You can also add them as a contact and it will autocorrect towards that word, so I can get my phone to want to correct to “fucking”.
I’ve been doing that for half a year or so. It’s still shit, so I’m giving up on autocorrect.
i disabled auto correct and predictive text. do i make more typos, yes, but it is better than having my sentences change as i type. i got so frustrated with words changing as i typed
I wonder if relying on autocorrect can sort of be manipulated or corralled by an algorithm
I have SwiftKey. Autocorrect is switched off, but it still auto, ahem, “corrects”. Because apparently when you type “have” you must have meant “haven’t”.
Does anyone know a keyboard that doesn’t do dumb shit like that?
