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.
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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.
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I've heard that Android versions greater than 12 refuse to install it due to some outdated software api check, but there's a friendly guy on the xda-dev forum who released a patched version.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, but I turn off autocomplete and autocapitalization and grammar correction
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.
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 have the spell check toggled on, but not autocorrect. I hate having my text changed when it is what I actually want, but having the mistakes underlined so I can fix them manually can be useful
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
This, especially if you switch between languages and forget to change the keyboard.
I turned everything off about 2 years ago after getting annoyed by autocorrect making more mistakes than me. I like that the keyboard takes up less space and my typing has improved dramatically since then. I can type whole paragraphs now without making a single typo. I regret nothing.
I don't because most of the time, it's correcting words that are already spelled correctly into a slightly different word that doesn't fit the context and ends up taking more time to type something than just manually correcting any errors.
Like its to it's and vice versa. Or fuck to duck.
I feel like it'd erode my abilities over time like others say, but primarily I just find autocorrect worse than useless for efficiency. I keep disabling it every time I try on new devices.
What abilities would it erode? Your ability to spell? But the only difference is whether you take the 10 seconds to google the spelling or let autocorrect do it for you. That's not a meaningful difference.
It's a meaningful difference for me personally.
I've been using swipe to type on my phone, but I do wonder if I spend more time correcting it than I save by using it. If I have a physical keyboard, hell no. All spelling errors are entirely my own.
Swipe is really bad on iPhone. I remember some frustration at times on Android but on iPhone it's infuriating. I use it anyway.
Of corse
I don't see a need for autocorrection, when I have autocompletion. When I make a typo, I just press the correct version on the suggestion row of my keyboard.
To be honest, I can't comprehend how so many people can withstand autocorrection and not use completions.
No. Because I don't want to rewrite everything it got wrong, and when you regularly write in three different languages that happens constantly.
Also, it makes the onscreen keyboard bigger.
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.
No, never! They are more painful than useful.
I used to be so much better at spelling than all these spell checker things.
Recently, they have improved and I am getting old 😉 but I still see them making so many mistakes with new/modern words, and when I use terms from different languages... still no good.
Duck auto carrot.
Jokes aside, I prefer to have errors be marked with an angry red squiggly line and suggestions. No automation beyond an upper case letter at the beginning of a sentence. Even that is too much on a computer.
I spell most words just fine, but swipe implies some level of autocorrect, anyway. With physical keyboards of course not.
On mobile I definitely do because I like to type really fast and sometimes I don’t have the patience to hit every key with 100% accuracy.
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?
"Anysoft keyboard" is able to behave, usually.
Ooh, thanks, I'll have a shufty.
I do! Being reasonably accurate as possible when typing is something that I value! It helps, as sometimes I am a goose on the loose, and don't proofread my sentences before posting. The obvious errors are at least caught before they become final.
I don't because my keyboard doesn't have it
Yes, because my spelling is atrocious and I need help.
I don't because I can't. The main language I use privately does not exist + I quite often browse English speaking sites.