• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    8 months ago

    Would be nice if software in general would just stop suggesting things altogether and let the user decide what they want to say / do.

    [Types X]

    “Did you mean Y?”

    Did I ducking type “Y”? No. I typed X.

    Granted, this case seems more like the emoji metadata being mislabeled.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Why? The suggestion bar doesn’t obstruct typing or reading, it expedites access to spell check and emojis, and if you really hate it, you can disable it.

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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        8 months ago

        You’re focusing too narrowly. Suggestions in general. Software needs to get out of people’s way.

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          8 months ago

          As another commenter has suggested, you can get it out of your way if you take the time and energy to do so. It just requires that you put in effort rather than have it handed to you on a silver platter.

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              8 months ago

              Which often have settings if you look for them.

              Are you shouldn’t have Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud as your profile pic? Admiral Patrick sn’t anywhere near as much a curmudgeon.

    • Dontsendfeetpics@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Well thankfully there’s both settings to turn those features off and settings to customize your own text replacement built right into the OS. So yeah, the users can indeed decide what they want to say/do.

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        8 months ago

        Yeah, but when the default isn’t tailored specifically to me and no one else, it’s clearly bad design.