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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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[-] brap@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 2 points 2 years 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.

[-] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years 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.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Join the revolution. Reject predictive text.

Thumb-Key

[-] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

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.😌)

[-] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

I think the major problem is that culture is evolving so rapidly that keyboard dictionaries can't keep up with new words.

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