I want to turn it off entirely, but the “smart” hitboxes for the digital keyboard are also so imprecise that I rely on autocorrect to accommodate my fat fingers.

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    10 months ago

    Gboard is especially bad at this. If a word could in any conceivable way be capitalized, it will capitalize it.

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      10 months ago

      Mine constantly pulls the bait and switch when I try to type “definitely”. On the third letter, it will momentarily recommend “definitely”, but after an instant, say, long enough to decide to tap the suggestion, it switches it to “Def”, and because I tapped the suggestion, I have to go back and delete the whole word and start over

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      10 months ago

      Soon the globalists will lay claim to every word and we’ll communicate with sentences composed 100% of proper noun brand-names owned by multinational corporations.