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I correct the spell checker more than the spell checker corrects me

On my phone? All the damn time, since I use a lot of jargon and shorthand that it doesn't understand, as well as a few neologisms. But, I'm a much worse typist on my phone.

On my Linux desktop or $dayjob's Windows laptop? Almost never, as it is much less aggressive about replacing what I typed.

Depends on whether it thinks I'm living in America or not.

All the time. Depending on the app and device, my spell checker might be set to American English, British English or Spanish. And I never check which before I start writing.

One quirk of not being a native speaker of English is that I don't really have a default spelling - colour or color, it depends on what the spellchecker says

Disabled by default. Fuck that
And every other smart feature as well.
Basically it works like a regular old school desktop keyboard.

The most of auto-complete I am using is on the terminal to auto-complete commands.

Never. Turned that shit off. Don't need it. If I can't spell hippoospotiamus right now it's your problem not mine.

Often. Stupid work PC is set to US English while I use Australian English.

Less the spell checker and more the "swipe". If it pulls the wrong word based on my swipe, the suggestions it offers as alternatives are closer to the word it incorrectly picked vs other words similar to what I swiped. So fucking irritating.

I let auto carrot handle it and you decipher what I mean.

All the tine

All the ducking time!

At this point its main function is adding apostrophes and tildes to words. About half the time it does that when it's not needed and needs correction. Eg. the first "its" in this comment.

My company is European. Although all our templates are written in English, the check-language is set to Italian. So, pretty much every single word.

And yes, every time a new template comes out, we have to go through block by block and reset them to English. But even then a bunch slips through. Usually takes about a month to filter all the filters out.

I turned mine off years ago because it was all the time.

although I get more irritated at grammar checkers.

I'll never use a spell checker again. The last time, I ended up with my feet on backwards. That witch can't spell check shit.

Depends on the spellchecker/autocorrect. I know they are technically different because of how you interact with them, but autocorrect is just an automated spellchecker/grammar checker.

The spellchecker/grammar checker in my web browser on my desktop is great, barely need to fix anything and it brings things to my attention. It also tells me something is wrong, then I choose whether to do the correction.

The autocorrect on my phone is a steaming pile of crap that changes words into other words that it shouldn't, so I ended up turning it off because it wouldn't let me confirm a correct spelling for something that was close to another word.

So any typos in my posts will be due to doing it on a phone without a spellcheck, since I turned that off and my thumbs aren't as reliable as my fingers.

I had a habit of letting the spellchecker alert me to misspellings but didn’t allow it to correct them. This was to teach me to figure out the correct spelling of difficult words. But now that so much typing is with thumbs on glass, I let it fix things for me (as well as incorrectly modify the word I intended) all the time. Still doing it the old way on a physical kbd, though.

Often, specifically the word colour, fedora doesn't have an option for Canadian English.

I use to write things for a sci-fi mud, so frequently I'd be adding things to the spellchecker. Usually I just have to correct things on the phone when it thinks I want wrote instead of write or the like.