@pluralistic been noticing this for a long time.

It's wild how so many things I use on the daily worked so much better even 5 years ago even though the underlying technology supporting them have gott3n better.

Autocorrect is the most obnoxious example of this. On iOS it's almost unusable because it only makes a change when it's clearly wrong, and refuses to fix my actual spelling mistakes.

DressToKILT I started using a keyboard on Android that doesn’t have autocomplete, and it’s honestly wild A) how bad my typing is on a touch screen, just in general, and B) how the only meaningful difference between this and my previous keyboard with all of the bells and whistles is that it doesn’t catch small typos like “og” (vs “of”) or “ro” (for “to”). At some point, the autocorrect decided that my typos were purposeful and needed to be saved, and it started “fixing” my correctly spelled words with my previously saved typos, somehow.

So, overall, a neutral transition.

@kichae Oh yeah, I have the same issue. My typing on a touchscreen is /atrocious/ and I constantly hit the wrong row for certain letters. I fat-finger the space bar instead of /n/ all the time, so I frequently have stuff like "I'm Goi g to be lat3" and so forth. The worst part is that it generally knows what I mean and just... doesn't replace it.

But it will replace "if" with "of" every single time regardless of context, and then fight me when I try to correct it.