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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
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.
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.
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.
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
It geniunely did
Typos are usually easier to figure out than when people pick the wrong word in autocorrect.
Yeah this isn't correcting auticorrect, it's disabling it.
Full manual baybeeeeee
Big if truce
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 🤬
I'm the type to disable autocorrect everywhere, so if I fuck it up, I fuck it up. :)
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. 🤷♂️👍
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:
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 understand your position and for me I’m not sure if it’s my age or starting with flip phone I can type faster than smart phone with no error.
When technology evolved your examples came in order of 2 then 1. I did do option 2 but the phones kept getting “smarter”. At this point I just over it and these “smart” phones are doing too much. Which Im slowly reverting back to a flip phone. Well a smart flip phone if they’re still around, need some apps to live in this world.
I understand if age might be a limiting factor here. I'm nearing 40 myself. But I still think phones are getting smarter, rather than "'smarter'". Phones are incredibly capable these days. It's the app makers who are making shit apps, more like. Designed to hog our attention and waste our time.
But the phones just run what they're told to run, bless them. 🥰
My kids keep asking me if they can play games on my phone, which can definitely run games very well. I tell them I have no games on it (which is the truth), and they let me have my phone to myself. 😆 Also no TikTok or Snapchat and garbage like that. 👍 They will learn to be bored and find/make entertainment themselves, like I did damnit!
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.
i disable autocorrect because i hate it when it guesses the wrong word much more than i dislike making a typo.
I... don't think we can be friends.
Let's meef for lunvh is actually the result when you switch autocorrect off
I switxh between three different la gauge. Ny Autocorrect is fu ked up
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!
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.
Actually, this was me yeah. I was typing on my new keyboard and it isn't quite the same as my old one and it wrote own his wing, and i just thought com it, I'll just leave whatever nonsense of comes out with. Who cars. Pele well be able to figure of what i was trying to day and it'll be OK. Will, yesterday i have in and wooed it, but today you have emboldened me an I'll just post abreast. Duck it. And thank you.
I remember a time when autocorrect was terrible then it became good and then, terrible again. What happened?
I don't ever remember it being good, and I predate cell phones.
My cynical mind says they broke autocomplete to encourage voice to text which is a much more rich data mining avenue than text only. Think of what all information about yourself can be determined just from your voice, which passes through Google servers when you use their voice to text and they most definitely keep.
I hate that autocorrect defaults to such common words making it impossible to type anything without manually typing in "rare" shit. Or when spell checks just don't know enough words. I shouldn't have to add materiel to the dictionary in an age where modern browsers require 36 threads and 3gb to check my email.
My only gripe with Autocorrect is that it will sometimes take a perfectly cromulent word or sentence and change it to something that makes me sound like an imbecile.
I don't know how I feel about "cromulent" being in the dictionary now. Its sort of great that The Simpsons create this type of effect, but now it ruins the joke.
Man I went on a rabbit hole, but basically "Cromulent has crept so deep into the language that it has even shown up as a hypothetical example in a Supreme Court amicus brief."
Link to that ruling.
my dude is powering up from that coffee
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
What I find shocking is how terrible swipe-texting has gotten. Back in the early days of Swype and SwiftKey it was fantastic. Now I'm lucky to string together a single sentence without it getting 4 words wrong.
When Microsoft bought Swiftkey it went downhill.
I still fight autocorrect because I don't want it to ducking correct me when I type duck. I mean duck. DUCK DUCK
ome, you can disable autocorrect
two, you'll still have that vpeoblem if you disable it. but it's easier to figure out an odd letter than a totally wrong weird imho
I‘m in this picture and i don‘t care anymore.
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.