Carrie ShanafeltI finally figured out how to turn off predictive text in my work email app, which might have been contributing to the utter exhaustion I feel when I'm trying to email. I'm constantly having to avoid accidentally writing "With love" to the dean or whatever. Who thought it was a good idea to constantly be pre-writing random words and plopping them down in front of your cursor while you're trying to think about what you're trying to say? It's like screaming numbers at someone trying to do math.
Veronika Cheplygina@carrideen I have to do this every so often because Microsoft likes to reset your settings after an update, and to by default enable all sorts of "improved features" they introduced
Albert Cardona@carrideen Someone at a tech company needed a promotion and didn't know how to do anything else.
Cavyherd"crush it with a rock" is my primal response to "functions" like that....
Jules she/her@carrideen oh God, I once tried to type "that turns out to be a transferrable skill" and had it predicted to "that turns me on" and then had to go and make a coffee and take a few deep breaths to stave off the panic attack about what would have happened if I hadn't spotted that before sending it
Karen E. Lund 💙💛@afewbugs @carrideen Back when I worked in an IT department we had an Internet outage that originated at our national headquarters.
After it was resolved our local network engineer sent out an all-staff email message saying it had been resolved and, as spellcheck rephrased his words, "...we apologize for any incontinence this may have caused."
I would have wagered money that most people don't really read those kinds of emails all the way through. I would have lost. Big time.
Shawn McCool@carrideen I have seen people programming like this and watching them try to have coherent thoughts while trying to decide if the machine was doing the right thing.
PetterOfCats@carrideen it’s just as bad when I’m trying to code and Microsoft’s coding “autocorrect” keeps completing my statements with things that are so super wrong I need to triple check my work word for word to make sure it didn’t autocomplete things like style with StylusInputForceFunctionIO_DONOTUSE or something similar.