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Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by [deleted] »

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #752
latexr wrote: post #571

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There aren’t daily or even weekly submissions about the iOS keyboard being broken. That seems pretty obvious (and understandable).

There was a time, a few months ago, when everyone complained about the iOS keyboard, and blog posts about it got traction. If you want to get a blog post about the same topic to get traction now, you need a hook. The countdown is the hook. That's why I said, "Another random blog post about the broken iOS keyboard wouldn't get any traction." That's the point of the countdown. When you write that "this is one of the em…

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Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by mft_ »

itopaloglu83 wrote: post #415
sequoia wrote: post #274

I have a lot of issues with dictation as well which I feel has gotten much worse as it gets "smarter." It used to take literal dictation & I could say "comma" "period" etc. to insert punctuation. Now it tries to guess when commas or full stops should be added and it's horrible. If I pause to take a breath it puts a comma or period, sometimes entirely changing the meaning of the sentence. Recently I said "I ran into t…

Here's a recent conversation I had with Siri. Me: Hey Siri, set the living room lights to 100%. Siri: 100% = 1 This has been working for 6-7 years without any issues, and suddenly Siri is giving me math lessons. What the hell is happening in this company?

Did you upgrade your iOS? I’m stubbornly sticking to v18 as long as I can and have noticed no such change. Cooking timers, alarms, and light settings are basically all I use Siri for.

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by seec »

leptons wrote: post #784
seec wrote: post #723

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The whole window management system is an exercise in contrarianism. They basically chose to do things in the opposite manner of their competitor and mostly against what intuition would dictate for the sole reason of being different. macOS is very frustrating to use without utility apps that provide the necessary improvements. But they are never as well integrated, cost money or are a hassle to set up. Apple just wins…

Apple only "wins" by charging exorbitant prices that idiots are willing to pay to have a digital status symbol. What they have not "won" is market share. They have always been an "also-ran" in market share. Android (70%) beats iOS (30%). Windows (68%) beats MacOS (13%).

Well, I agree with that if we are talking about the general population. But Apple does have some niches it serves very well that make the prices worth it for some. But of course, this is a very tiny minority of their customers.

For example, they always have been focusing on video editing since the PPC days, starting with the iMac DV. And nowadays, Macs are still quite good for video editing; even when you factor in the price, it's not that bad of a deal. Previously it was about DTP and desktop graphics generally.

But it's always the same playbook; they are first to offer the possibilities of a new usage, but that comes with their high price; over time they lose competitiveness, and they end up switching to something else.

The question is always if the asking price is going to be worth it for whatever you try to accomplish with a computer at the moment. If you are doing work that doesn't require being on the bleeding edge, the answer is probably no.

However, in general, people buy Apple stuff for the status, very often as an ego trip (to prove they are better) and not infrequently out of ignorance/incompetence (it's crazy how much stupid shit Apple fans believe).

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by pbmonster »

savanaly wrote: post #797
pbmonster wrote: post #601

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Your Windows 11 experience strongly, strongly depends on where you are. Are you inside the EU? 90% of the crap people complain about is simply illegal and you don't see any of it.

I'm in the US, I never experience any of the issues people complain about. Just checked and I don't have the setting disabled that that one guy talked about up thread. But I do have all notifications off. Maybe that is why?

Pro/Enterprise Version?

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by lynndotpy »

stockresearcher wrote: post #775
lynndotpy wrote: post #499

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This is really reductionist. This isn't a bullying or in-group / out-group thing. Someone who is not on iMessage will be excluded from iMessage group chats, just as someone who is not on Snapchat will be excluded from Snapchat group chats, just as someone who is not on Instagram will be excluded from Instagram group chats, someone who is not on WeChat will be excluded from WeChat group chats.

iMessage has supported RCS in group chats for more than a year. It’s a non-issue, technology-wise

It still doesn't bring "green bubbles" up to parity with iMessage, though.

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by alterom »

Drupon wrote: post #408
usui wrote: post #228

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I can't believe there are also other people downrange who don't get it, but in case anyone has a broken sarcasm detector: Yes, this blog post is meant to be whimsical and tongue-in-cheek because the post takes itself too seriously by pretending like one user leaving to another platform (for 2 years GASP !!) with a big scary countdown timer is a credible threat to a multi-trillion dollar company. The real part of the…

Yep, lol. Example 364023 of high prevalence of autism accompanied by an arrogant need to weigh in aggressively despite these people having to had realized by this point in their lives that if something completely doesn't make sense, it's worth sitting it out in the case that it is indeed sarcasm.

> Example 364023 of high prevalence of autism

Excuse me!

As an autistic/ADHD[1], I can assure you that we do get sarcasm, and it's not autism that hinders that ability. In fact, this very post is peak autistic humor. (Deadpan comedy is trademark autism[2]).

>accompanied by an arrogant need to weigh in aggressively

Ding-ding, that's the winner! A necessary and sufficient condition for comments of that sort to appear.

Not exclusive to people on the spectrum either, mind you.

[1] https://romankogan.net/adhd

[2] https://autisticamber.substack.com/p/deadpan-literal-and-loy...

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by m463 »

kbrkbr wrote: post #738
m463 wrote: post #654

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but anyone who uses the keyboard knows the statements to be true. I have just switched to turning autocorrect off. The "select all" comment hit home. I frequently try to copy/paste text and it is maddening to try to locate "select all" And cursor movement? ugh. It is so painful to move the cursor to one specific letter that I frequently just erase everything and start over.

How did you make that happen? I use swipe keyboard in iPhone. I turned off all "autocorrect" features they offer. Still their random generator keeps replacing perfectly fine words _and the words before them_ with random crap that makes no sense. Heck, I even turned off all features, and still it happens. So I switched to another keyboard from appstore. I would switch to another OS, but I find the others even worse in…

it is under "Keyboard" in settings. I turn off:

auto-capitalization

auto-correction

smart punctuation

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by halostatue »

chmod775 wrote: post #463
halostatue wrote: post #460

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TL;DW. I don't watch video complaints. I don't watch most YT videos except at 2x because by time the person who made the video got started saying what they're trying to say, I could have finished a text article version of the same thing. Most people speak way too slowly for me to be interested in what they're saying, especially when they could have written an article that is more information dense and it typically sh…

Sorry. That comment is too long. Didn't read. Hope you didn't waste much time on it. Jokes aside, that video is 2:23 long and it gets to the point within the first 33 seconds, at which point they have demonstrated the issue. You're being beyond incredibly silly right now.

Not at all.

Video-first is generally as ridiculous as SEO-driven recipes where I can't start cooking what I want to cook because I have to go through someone's nonna's best friend's sister's cooking life story.

It's great that this video gets to the point in the first 33 seconds, but make me want to watch your video.

This post made me not care.

I get video bug reports all the time at work -- but it's accompanied with a description of what the problem is that makes it worth my time to watch the video. (Sometimes, with a well-written description, I don't need the video but watch it to make sure my understanding matches.)

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