Yeah I’ve noticed it sometimes seems to get worse. Don’t know what phone you use, but when I use Google’s voice-to-text on Android, I often have to correct mistakes, because it tries to do it word-by-word, but sometimes what I actually intend is not clear until I’ve spoken the whole sentence - and for whatever reason, Google very rarely goes back and changes a word it’s already transcribed. For instance, if I say, “I think your speaking” it’s not yet clear if that should be a “your” or a “you’re”, and it won’t become clear until I complete the sentence/clause.

If I want to dictate a long piece of text, I will use OpenAI’s text-to-speech, which is almost flawless (it doesn’t start transcribing until you’ve finished everything you’re going to say). I appreciate some people don’t like OpenAI, but to be honest, Google isn’t much better, and likewise Apple is not a lot better than Google.

Well spelling was solved even earlier than that, with rote-learning at school in combination with the very environmentally friendly technologies known as the paddle and cane. What was wrong with that way of doing things?? Is it progress? Or were things better in the old days?

In any case, all the words in the sentence in question are spelt correctly - the problem is grammar. Correctly determining if the grammar of a sentence is correct is a much harder problem than simply checking the spelling of words against a dictionary.

I’m using voice to text like right now

AI really has come a very long way hasn’t it. It was not that long ago that you had to train the computer on your own voice and even then accuracy was annoyingly bad. Now it can transcribe speech from just about anyone at much better levels of accuracy.

Yes you got it! The person I replied to was talking about those inline grammar checkers you have in word processors, which are pretty limited in value so I wanted to show what you could do with an LLM, and how it can go beyond just correcting but also helping learning.

I did think about adding a sentence to say to imagine writing in some important official context e.g. a letter to a government agency rather than a comment on Lemmy, but decided in the end it would probably be obvious.

It’s a *lot* better these days. Here’s how you could use it to improve the English in your comment:

Can you point out and characterise the grammar mistakes in the following sentence, with tips on how the writer could avoid similar mistakes in future - “I must admit its been a while, but all these things where horrible last time i played with them.”

Sure — that sentence has a few grammar issues, each pointing to a common kind of slip. Here’s the breakdown:

1. “its been a while” → “it’s been a while”

Mistake: “its” is a possessive pronoun (like his, her, their), while “it’s” is the contraction of “it has”. Fix: Use “it’s” because the writer means “it has been a while”.

Tip: When in doubt, try expanding “it’s” to “it is” or “it has” and see if the sentence still makes sense. If it doesn’t, you probably want “its”.

2. “where horrible” → “were horrible”

Mistake: “where” (a location) is confused with “were” (past tense of are). Fix: Use “were” to correctly form the past tense of “to be”.

Tip: Say it aloud—“they were horrible” sounds natural, while “they where horrible” doesn’t. If it’s a verb (they were), you want “were”.

3. “i played” → “I played”

Mistake: Lowercase “i”. Fix: Always capitalize “I” when it’s a pronoun referring to oneself.

Tip: This is more about habit than logic—just train yourself to always type “I” in uppercase, even in casual writing.

Full corrected version: “I must admit it’s been a while, but all these things were horrible last time I played with them.”

I put it on the hat on the throttle

That’s where I’ve got mine too

the build quality that leaves a bit to be desired

Got you, thanks

The absolute rock bottom cheapest I’d suggest is an X52, and even then I hesitate to actually recommend it

What would be better with a more expensive control system? Just curious - I’ve got an X52 also, it seems fine, although I haven’t found a good way to map the “strafe” axes (i.e. vertically up/down, horizontally left/right).

There’s really nothing special about Jesus, if you accept that the voices he heard in his head were not really “the all-powerful creator” speaking to him.

What I mean is that Jesus did not say anything more remarkable or ground-breaking than say Socrates, Marx or … I don’t know Iain M Banks or any other story teller. Way less remarkable in fact.

There’s this persistent idea that Jesus was some wonderful caring hippy, and before Jesus everyone was just a callous exploitive bastard. But there’s nothing new about the share-and-share-alike philosophy Jesus espoused. It’s basic game theory and has been present in society since before our species even evolved. Even chimps grasp those ideas.

Jesus was just a poor Jewish common person who thought he was the messiah. Just like his compatriots of the time, he believed the Jews to be the “chosen people”, and his message was only directed at his compatriots. He had no more grasp of humanity as a whole than any other common person of his time. As the messiah, he believed - as did his followers - that he was going to usher in the end of the world.

It’s complete nonsense, and if you truely understand what a scam the modern church is, you would stop promoting him as some kind of revolutionary.

Not sure what you’re saying - do you mean that if you use target nearest hostile, but there isn’t a hostile ship in the vicinity, it would instead target the original object? Hmm doesn’t sound right! Sorry, what did you mean?

When you’re in supercruise heading to a distant targeted destination, if the player targets other objects that they are going past, it should be easy to then re-target the original destination object again.

I can’t be the only one that would like to be able to target passing spaceships, planets or other objects while I’m on a 5 minute supercruise to some interesting thing I’ve found in the discovery scanner? The fact I would have to go back into the discovery scanner and find that same object again means I can’t really do this. Or is there already a way I don’t know about?

Either there would be a new button like the “target next system in route” button for hyperspace jumps, or whatever object(s) you target remain available to re-target again by use of Next-Target / Previous-Target keybinds.

Must’ve been a hell of a shower if adding a whole nother layer of weirdness in the form of time-travellers somehow made anything seem more logical!

Here’s a list of well-supported USB WiFi adapters - https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi/blob/main/home/USB_WiFi_Adapters_that_are_supported_with_Linux_in-kernel_drivers.md

Can you just stream video and audio directly, like a standard IP camera? This list of solutions in the Raspberry Pi documentation could have some ideas - https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/camera_software.html#stream-video-over-a-network-with-rpicam-apps (there are some RPi specific solutions, but also general Linux approaches e.g. ffplay)

In case you don’t already know about it, paccache (part of the pacman-contrib package) will let you easily remove old packages from the pacman cache

fraid I generated a tl;dr for this rather verbose article:

“Home directories are a mess because too many apps ignore XDG spec and dump dotfiles everywhere. The problem isn’t just legacy software—new apps do it too, often out of ignorance or laziness. Windows has similar issues with profile folders. Fixing it requires devs to actually follow standards, but many resist due to inertia or ‘my way is better’ thinking. Users should push back and demand proper XDG compliance to keep $HOME clean.”

Well like it or not, your footer is just a part of your comments, and so people are invited to respond however they wish when you post it on lemmy. If you don’t like people making the same replies, you can simply stop posting the same content in every comment.

artistic licence innit - based being the opposite of cringe.

Bethesda (and other companies) don’t owe anything to the very small community of modders

Disagree. I bought Skyrim VR (even though I already had the non-VR version) only because mods exist which make the game worth playing in VR. Same for Fallout 4 VR - would not have bought that without mods.

But once you leave Steam […] it gets a lot worse

Heroic Games Launcher is pretty great for games from GOG and Epic. You can run games with Proton just fine.

If you’d have left it @[email protected], it would’ve become a mighty oak. You Westerners are weak. Who wouldn’t want a mighty oak growing out their dick?