Re:I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?
by colordrops on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:22PM
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While we are piling on, Android's autocorrect is absolute shite. It won't suggest or correct for misspelled words that are obviously one letter off, and then replace correctly spelled words like "the" because it knows better than you. It's not smart enough to get that you typed.period instead of space and correct it. It's as if the devs that work on it don't even use it.
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Re:I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?
by Talanes on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:31PM
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IOS Autocorrect does all of the same shit. It's always been baffling to me that no autocorrect seems to be designed around the type of errors you're likely to actually make on a phone keyboard. Mistype the first letter? Nope, never gonna catch that. Being able to recognize simple prefix and suffix constructions on the fly would be nice too. If I put "re" or "pre" before any valid word, it should recognize what I'm going for.
Re:I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?
by Avery3R on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:15AM
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swiftkey
Re:I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?
by londons_explore on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:27PM
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It's part of the keyboard. Just use another.
Re:I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?
by colordrops on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:45PM
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Recommendation for one that doesn't slurp your data and has great autocomplete?
Re:I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?
by f1refly on Saturday May 23, 2020 @03:30AM
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Fleksy has an amazing algorithm and is gratis nowadays. I'm not user what the developers are doing because the thing is feature complete and they keep on announcing weird additions, bit those are always opt optional so not all bad. Here's their official page where they advertise their app to government officials due to their privacy standards:
https://www.fleksy.com/government