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Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

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[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm a fan of HeliBoard now, it's not as good as gboard in it's word finding, but it's almost there. Good enough to switch away from Google by far.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Complete garbage. It has to have gotten worse. Like it’s training ai instead of trying to help us. I’m convinced

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Iirc FlexT9 was ducking (nope, not fixing it this time, rofl) great for the... Galaxy S2?, but then Swype bought em out and it's been downhill ever since.

So... it's not that the tech is bad, it's that it's being hamstrung somewhere.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

I keep hoping that its crapness will at least teach me to proofread before I hit the Post button. It hasn't... but I can hope.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

i have a flip phone. i don't use sms, but occasionally i make a quick note in the little 'notepad'. the good ol' tap-tap-tap is more efficient than its horrible predictive text.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Join the revolution. Reject predictive text.

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[–] brap@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I use the word "fuck" a lot. I have added it many times yet it insists on babying me and trying to protect my fucking feelings by not suggesting it. Infuriating.

[–] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Autocorrect is slave-mentality

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

HTC had one of the best keyboards. Each key had 2 letters on each key (except 1 or 2 that had 3) and it never failed to guess what word I wanted. Stopped working with android 4 IIRC.

Found it on a XDA thread from 2010

Sadly still doesn't work

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