[godshatter]

I have to say that I agree with GRRM's point about not wanting software to "correct" you. I seem to spend half my time while typing on my phone trying to convince it that what I typed is really what I wanted to type, and not what it thinks is what I wanted to type. Microsoft Office is also bad at this.

Also, whoever decided that highlighting something should try to guess the whole words you wanted and when copying should throw a space on the end for no apparent reason should be, well... I shake my fist at you. I spend a lot of time re-highlighting something either to avoid the space on the end or the beginning or both or to get something out of the middle of the word and it's incredibly frustrating. Just stay out of my way. I've got this.

[ryandrake]

These (and other examples) are of the same category: Computers should obey the user's commands, not ignore the user, and not try to second guess the user. Computers felt a lot more reliable (and a lot more fun) when they were essentially REPLs: Read a command from the user, start a process, execute the command, print the results, end the process, and repeat. Now, they're running hundreds of processes doing god knows what, trying to do things that you don't want them to do, nagging/notifying you constantly, suggesting this and nudging that. It's gone from something that executes the user's commands to something that commands the user.

[furyofantares]

> I seem to spend half my time while typing on my phone trying to convince it that what I typed is really what I wanted to type

I'm curious why you don't turn those features off

[godshatter]

Laziness, I guess. I haven't wanted to scour the settings for my keyboard and/or system settings for it. But, prompted by your question I did go root through the settings and got it all turned off.