this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
454 points (93.8% liked)

Technology

60070 readers
3706 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 77 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

I tried to swipe some word earlier and it decided what really wanted to say was ConocoPhillips. Why the fuck is that even in the dictionary in my phone? When would I ever want to say that?

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For real. If someone could SCTUALLY (oh look another issue. It fails to work out the word if the first letter is wrong far too often) *ACTUALLY answer this question I'd be halfway happy

[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Phones learn from what you’re typing. The more you type (typo) something, the more they will recommend it to you. Vicious cycle if it auto corrupts it for you, and you miss it/ignore it thinking the other party will understand you fine. Eventually it learns the ironic typos as actual words and then you’re stuck with them when you type. I kind of wish there’s a way to review / manage the autocomplete dictionaries, but I haven’t tried hard enough to find out yet.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't think the above poster has ever typed ConocoPhillips (hey it's on my autocorrect too)

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Cookbooks

ConocoPhillips

I have it!

Edit: they're a gas company?

https://www.conocophillips.com/about-us/who-we-are/

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

On my phone if I hold down on the suggested word in the keyboard area, I can delete it from "learned words." This is only really helpful if it's a typo that isn't also a real word.

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

My phone still doesn't know what fuck means or suggests it to me when I want to write it even though I use it fairly often. I also daily greet my coworkers over threema and it still hasn't learned what I want to write when my sausage fingers and the too smal keyboard are at a disagreement what should be written.

[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 5 points 7 months ago

Tin foil hat: Spy phone/app/browser looking at what you’re reading and adding it to your keyboard hints. That particular company was mentioned in a recently linked article about the company triggering an earthquake from fracking in northern BC, as well as being sued by the state of California.

[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

It was totally to give you content to share today on Lemmy /s

I have wondered for a while if both the predictive and spelling 'help' these keyboard provide are getting broken because they're integrating "what most people do" to your phone.

autocorrect is like downright scary now. you have to double, triple check what you typed is what WAS typed.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago

At some point, "lets", "well", "ill", "id", and "its" (among many others) have stopped being words, apparently.

[–] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’ve finally had to disabled it. Been a few weeks and while typing is more of an effort on my part, it is also much less frustrating.

The predictive text was far and away the most annoying part.

[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 4 points 7 months ago

Disabling autocorrect showcased how bad I am at phone typing. But I have to be very mindful of what is actually corrected and corrected to. Especially in sms where there's no easy edit

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah. Kinda like an LLM lmao

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

I'd assume it was something you'd typed once (maybe while searching or a typo). I always delete those words when they come up (for me that's dragging the word up and a bin appears).