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Tell HN: My fingers are frustrated that my laptop does not autocomplete text
What a horrible realization!
I am just laying here trying to forget about war and typing some notes when I realized that my fingers were getting a bit lazy and I yearned for the laptop to just know what I wanted to type... like my phone almost always does.
That's disturbing to me in ways that I can't really articulate.
I think I am going to put the phone down more often moving forward.
I don't want to be suggested what to say based on some weird proprietary Markov algorithm or however they're doing it.
It's creepy.
(I've never really used a smartphone much in my life, I only just started using one regularly in the past few months.)
- george_ciobanu 5y agoMakes sense
- tlhunter 5y agoDon't macOS laptops do this by default?
- kritr 5y agoThis should be the case. As far as on Windows, autocomplete itself isn’t native, however, the text prediction feature does exist within certain Office apps like Outlook.
- johnnyApplePRNG 5y agoI'm on Debian, for the record.
- johnwalkr 5y agoIt does but I doubt many users end up using it as a habit. The predictions are not available in all apps and the prediction popups aren’t located right where you are both looking and typing like on iOS. So, the user is not nudged to use it as strongly. I forget the feature exists.
- johnwalkr 5y agoI’m an aerospace engineer and when I look at paper drawings sometimes I start to try to press control-f.
- johnnyApplePRNG 5y agoI tried scrolling a paper page in a book the other day... :/