Do you use autocorect on your devices? Why or why not?

No, my keyboard doesn't support it, and I don't much like it, anyways. It forces me to slow down slightly and re-read what I wrote.

Red squigglies, yes.

Auto-correction, fuck no. Not on anything except maybe in visual studio for snippets because it actually matters.

Anywhere else, though, just get better at typing and have fun embracing imperfections and silly typos.

Literally, to err is human.

Yes. Autocorrect has gotten better and better with my typing as it learns the words I type. It takes into account where on the wrong letters that I’m typing to figure out the actual word. I’m pretty fast at typing on my phone.

I use it on my phone for text messages, but I've realized that over the years, I'm starting to forget how to spell some words. I should probably stop using it to reprogram my brain.

Not autocorrect, but I let my phone suggest words and manually choose the one I want because I'm unable to write without mistakes on touch screen keyboards.

On my PC I don't use anything like that.

I do, but boy am I looking for a better keyboard, gboard has really gone downhill, I mean it was never great but it's just straight up putting completely wrong totally unrelated words in place of REAL FUCKING WORDS. I miss pre-microsoft swiftkey, they had the best text prediction I've ever used. I remember in college my friend and I had a convo about how it was so good that he would have a full text to his dad perfectly predicted and he felt bad because he basically let a robot do the thinking for him lol. Now it's been gutted by microsoft, and they text correction is just as janky as gboard.

I use gboard. It has great emojis and gifs so I don't wanna stop.

If you type or swipe in a word (I primarily swipe) and it comes out wrong, you can tap and hold the suggestion word that you hate, and drag it upwards to the garbage to remove it as a suggestion.

No longer do I get "Ave" when I'm trying to swipe in "and". Or any random proper nouns. It should basically never suggest proper nouns or abnormal words. If you want those, you should have to type them in manually, correctly, first.

yes, but I turn off autocomplete and autocapitalization and grammar correction

For anything on my PC, usually yes. For texting or simple messaging, yes. For Lemmy, no, any spelling errors here are genuine human fuck-ups.

I have it on but I do toy with the idea of turning it off occasionally.

My biggest problem with typing is I will “accidentally a word” a lot in sentences.

Try it. It's quite freeing ;)

I have the spell check toggled on, but not autocorrect. I hate having my text changed when it is what I actually want, but having the mistakes underlined so I can fix them manually can be useful

Yes, to my determinate

Yes. Disabled, faster.

I feel like it'd erode my abilities over time like others say, but primarily I just find autocorrect worse than useless for efficiency. I keep disabling it every time I try on new devices.

What abilities would it erode? Your ability to spell? But the only difference is whether you take the 10 seconds to google the spelling or let autocorrect do it for you. That's not a meaningful difference.
- It's a meaningful difference for me personally.

No. Because I don't want to rewrite everything it got wrong, and when you regularly write in three different languages that happens constantly.

Also, it makes the onscreen keyboard bigger.

On mobile I definitely do because I like to type really fast and sometimes I don’t have the patience to hit every key with 100% accuracy.

I did, but I just turned it off two seconds ago. I had been fed up for a while with all the "ducking" and other stupid autocorrects that I did not intend. I can type well enough and if not, that's on me. But autocorrect makes worse errors than I do. I usually proof read my texts anyways, so that should catch 99% of all preventable errors.

Add those words to your dictionary to stop them from autocorrecting. You can also add them as a contact and it will autocorrect towards that word, so I can get my phone to want to correct to “fucking”.
- I've been doing that for half a year or so. It's still shit, so I'm giving up on autocorrect.

No, never! They are more painful than useful.

I used to be so much better at spelling than all these spell checker things.

Recently, they have improved and I am getting old 😉 but I still see them making so many mistakes with new/modern words, and when I use terms from different languages... still no good.

i disabled auto correct and predictive text. do i make more typos, yes, but it is better than having my sentences change as i type. i got so frustrated with words changing as i typed

This, especially if you switch between languages and forget to change the keyboard.

I turned everything off about 2 years ago after getting annoyed by autocorrect making more mistakes than me. I like that the keyboard takes up less space and my typing has improved dramatically since then. I can type whole paragraphs now without making a single typo. I regret nothing.

I've been using swipe to type on my phone, but I do wonder if I spend more time correcting it than I save by using it. If I have a physical keyboard, hell no. All spelling errors are entirely my own.

Swipe is really bad on iPhone. I remember some frustration at times on Android but on iPhone it's infuriating. I use it anyway.

Of corse

Duck auto carrot.

Jokes aside, I prefer to have errors be marked with an angry red squiggly line and suggestions. No automation beyond an upper case letter at the beginning of a sentence. Even that is too much on a computer.

I don't see a need for autocorrection, when I have autocompletion. When I make a typo, I just press the correct version on the suggestion row of my keyboard.

To be honest, I can't comprehend how so many people can withstand autocorrection and not use completions.

I have SwiftKey. Autocorrect is switched off, but it still auto, ahem, "corrects". Because apparently when you type "have" you must have meant "haven't".

Does anyone know a keyboard that doesn't do dumb shit like that?

"Anysoft keyboard" is able to behave, usually.
- Ooh, thanks, I'll have a shufty.

I do! Being reasonably accurate as possible when typing is something that I value! It helps, as sometimes I am a goose on the loose, and don't proofread my sentences before posting. The obvious errors are at least caught before they become final.

Yes, because my spelling is atrocious and I need help.

I spell most words just fine, but swipe implies some level of autocorrect, anyway. With physical keyboards of course not.

I don't because my keyboard doesn't have it

I don't because I can't. The main language I use privately does not exist + I quite often browse English speaking sites.