PART 2: I'm new an your 50-post rule sucks! Please change it for my convenience.

[jamil]

And I think it’s a chick!
Not that that matters, but seemed to speak knowledgeably on most of the well rounded topics they addressed.

I mean she was okay with forced vaccinations. Not all that knowledgeable on that, IMHO.

 

[jamil]

It looks like voice to text may be the weak link in the 50 quality post rule. You can post a wall of text FAST using your voice.

I admit I INGO on the toilet while talk-typing. Wife quit asking who I’m talking to.

 

[ditcherman]

I mean she was okay with forced vaccinations. Not all that knowledgeable on that, IMHO.

You got me there I must’ve skimmed that one.


Hey, that toilet talk typing does work

 

[Cameramonkey]

I admit I INGO on the toilet while talk-typing. Wife quit asking who I’m talking to.

As an aside, anyone else notice autocorrect/dictation has gone down the crapper over the past year or so? both used to work great. Now? Not so much. ESPECIALLY autocorrect which will convert halfway decent misspellings into clusters of letters. LIke I'll type "as an asidc" and when I hit the space it totally changes aside to "ASD dd er" (or something like that) Dafu???

 

[BigNyaKelly]

I mean she was okay with forced vaccinations. Not all that knowledgeable on that, IMHO.

You got me there. I'm not an anti vaxxer. I think the covid stuff has been complicated - I've held opinions all over the place about it. I remember arguing with a co-worker (the health teacher actually) that it shouldn't be mandated, actually she managed to convince me otherwise. But; that was near the start of this whole debacle. Shrug.

 

[WebSnyper]

As an aside, anyone else notice autocorrect/dictation has gone down the crapper over the past year or so? both used to work great. Now? Not so much. ESPECIALLY autocorrect which will convert halfway decent misspellings into clusters of letters. LIke I'll type "as an asidc" and when I hit the space it totally changes aside to "ASD dd er" (or something like that) Dafu???

On your phone? I'm using a 3rd party keyboard that learns my typing habits (though it's not active during sensitive activity such as passwords, etc) so generally I haven't noticed what you mention.

 

[ditcherman]

You got me there. I'm not an anti vaxxer. I think the covid stuff has been complicated - I've held opinions all over the place about it. I remember arguing with a co-worker (the health teacher actually) that it shouldn't be mandated, actually she managed to convince me otherwise. But; that was near the start of this whole debacle. Shrug.

There’s probably 30,000 posts in this joint specifically about covid, we were on the front lines of arguing about it starting in December of ‘18.
You’re right, a lot has changed and we’ve learned a lot, and you’re not alone in your beliefs. Minority, maybe, but that’s ok. Most here aren’t anti-vaxxers, most are just skeptical enough to not believe in covid vax.

Glad to see you interacting, it can be a fun addiction place.

 

[Cameramonkey]

On your phone? I'm using a 3rd party keyboard that learns my typing habits (though it's not active during sensitive activity such as passwords, etc) so generally I haven't noticed what you mention.

yeah. stock iphone kb

 

[ditcherman]

yeah. stock iphone kb

Same , figured it was me when I type really fast.

ps I couldn’t get it to do it just then.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Same , figured it was me when I type really fast.

ps I couldn’t get it to do it just then.

what gets me is the text it corrects to is not only in left field, its halfway into the parking lot! Some characters it adds werent even touched. And on rare occasions, legit properly spelled words changed to bizarre proper names. And it loves autocorrecting "network" to Netwerk.

 

[Ingomike]

what gets me is the text it corrects to is not only in left field, its halfway into the parking lot! Some characters it adds werent even touched. And on rare occasions, legit properly spelled words changed to bizarre proper names. And it loves autocorrecting "network" to Netwerk.

I find that the learning auto-correct often learns odd words from me. Since I do not know how it learns this it is frustrating to see past misspellings appear in place of properly spelled words. Recently I somehow capitalized “internet“ in auto-correct and it would always capitalize it. It has now quit.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I never use talk-to-text. DoggyMama does though and it gets irritating hearing her say the same thing 3 or 4 times to get it to "take". That's what I ran into when I tried it. I said screw it. I can type faster even on a phone than the time it takes to get the talk-to-text to get it right.

 

[radar8756]

It looks like voice to text may be the weak link in the 50 quality post rule. You can post a wall of text FAST using your voice.
...

That's why I mostly do Short Posts ...
one finger typing

 

[KG1]

That's why I mostly do Short Posts ...
one finger typing

I have become quite efficient at the hunt and peck method.

 

[KLB]

I find that the learning auto-correct often learns odd words from me. Since I do not know how it learns this it is frustrating to see past misspellings appear in place of properly spelled words. Recently I somehow capitalized “internet“ in auto-correct and it would always capitalize it. It has now quit.

The Internet should be capitalized.

 

[jamil]

You got me there. I'm not an anti vaxxer. I think the covid stuff has been complicated - I've held opinions all over the place about it. I remember arguing with a co-worker (the health teacher actually) that it shouldn't be mandated, actually she managed to convince me otherwise. But; that was near the start of this whole debacle. Shrug.

I'm not an anti-vaxxer either. Being against forced vaccination is not the same as beign an anti-vaxxer. And, for the people who wanted to force it, they better be ***damn sure that the disease it is supposed to prevent poses a threat to humanity, and that the vaccine is not only effective, but is the only way that we avoid massive deaths. None of that was proven to any extent which would ever justify mandating them.

 

[jamil]

As an aside, anyone else notice autocorrect/dictation has gone down the crapper over the past year or so? both used to work great. Now? Not so much. ESPECIALLY autocorrect which will convert halfway decent misspellings into clusters of letters. LIke I'll type "as an asidc" and when I hit the space it totally changes aside to "ASD dd er" (or something like that) Dafu???

Autocorrect has gotten horrible. It actually suggests some misspelled words, for **** sake! But, dictation works pretty well on an iphone. Even when I flush the toilet it seems to be able to figure out what I said.

 

[jamil]

On your phone? I'm using a 3rd party keyboard that learns my typing habits (though it's not active during sensitive activity such as passwords, etc) so generally I haven't noticed what you mention.

I gotta get one of those. I tend to hit the 'n' key instead of the space bar. I would love for the keyboard to figure that out and just correct it for me. They available for iphone?

 

[jamil]

I never use talk-to-text. DoggyMama does though and it gets irritating hearing her say the same thing 3 or 4 times to get it to "take". That's what I ran into when I tried it. I said screw it. I can type faster even on a phone than the time it takes to get the talk-to-text to get it right.

It's usually spot on for me. But I've learned to sort of help it out by exaggerating pronunciation. Kinda like when practicing for a speech, you practice in the mirror while exaggerating your pronunciation, so that you speak clearly when you're speaking.

 

[WebSnyper]

I use SwiftKey on iPad and iPhone. There are others out there. Not sure how well it will compensate for that particular concern @jamil but it has a bunch of settings, learns over time. For me I couldn't stand when I came to iPhone that the "." was not on the main keyboard screen (I believe you can hit space bar and hold, etc for it, but it drove me crazy and SwiftKey was closer to what I was used to).

I used to use wordflow but I don't think it's supported anymore.

I do turn off the swipe functionality as dragging my fingers across the keyboard is not natural for me.