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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • Strongly disagree. I’m using SwiftKey, and the prediction has been awful for the last year or so. It constantly tries to force sentences on me and gives me multiple repeated words.

    As an example, typing that last sentence, every time I started a word with ‘m’, it suggested ‘more’ and ‘more than’. If I long press and tell it not to suggest ‘more than’, then select ‘more’, the next suggested word is ‘than’.

    I find that it often repeats the selected word too. Earlier I typed something like ‘I did it last year’ and the next suggestions were ‘year’ and ‘year ago’.

    Microsoft have shoehorned a predictive AI into SwiftKey, and it doesn’t work properly.







  • I witnessed something like this once. I worked for a pawn shop, wiping and reinstalling Windows on computers they were selling, but occasionally working on one of the counters if they were short staffed.

    One day a regular customer brought his PS2 in to trade, so it had to be tested first. The manager took it as a training moment for me and and a few others, and connected it to the main TVs around the store so that we could all see how he checked the system.

    The customer had left a rather hardcore DVD in the drive and completely forgotten about it, until it started playing on the big screen, and everyone in the store learned about his preferences.






  • I’ve had a look, and I wasn’t a member. I’ve seen the site before, but apparently you didnt have to be a member back then.

    I do have some good news though - I’m a member now :D

    You just need to click through to the forums and read the sticky mesage that asks if you’re looking for the projects. It gives you the code that you need. I won’t post the link here publicly, but I’ll message you now, in case you can’t see it for whatever reason :)