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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

gennepher said:
Predictive text has it in for me as well @Krystyna23040 . It can change a post so completely that I have not a clue what I wrote... Because, as I change it back to what I wrote the whole thing changes the grammar and meaning again and adds words and REPHRASE before I have finished correcting, and says to me oh you mean these words after that word...no, I flipping don't...

I spend more time correcting predictive text but I do actually writing my actual email/ post whatever. I am almost getting to the stage where I dare not write anything....
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It is definitely getting worse @gennepher . It is driving me crazy also.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
It is definitely getting worse @gennepher . It is driving me crazy also.
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Is it not possible to turn predictive text off? Luckily my software only suggests, it doesn't actually change anything - my word processor is Libre Office, not MS Word. It does insist on American spelling, but that is the only problem with it. Even so, it doesn't do anything but underline in red and suggest the change.

Eating sweets at the moment - BG has dropped and I'm in the shaky stage of a hypo - misjudged the insulin with breakfast. I didn't have my normal hypo remedy of oatcakes or digestive biscuits to hand, nor any other starchy thing, so grabbed some dolly mixtures which I keep for cake decorating. They didn't stop the drop, so I've just had a few more and am hoping that works.

That might have worked - edged up to 3.1 now. We'll see if it drops again.

An old friend of mine - he was one of a group of friends when I was a teenager and I fancied myself "in love" for a while - haven't seen him since 2003 and only had occasional word via e-mail - has sent me a copy of a little book he has had published and, guess what - the starting point of his story is very similar to the one I am working on at present. It doesn't carry on in exactly the same way and his characters are different, but it's quite a timing coincidence. Only timing because the original idea was one we discussed way back then (1962 or 3). Great minds and all that. Took both of us quite a while for the idea to come to fruition.
 
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Annb said:
Is it not possible to turn predictive text off? Luckily my software only suggests, it doesn't actually change anything - my word processor is Libre Office, not MS Word. It does insist on American spelling, but that is the only problem with it. Even so, it doesn't do anything but underline in red and suggest the change.
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I didn't realise I could turn it off on my kindle fire @Annb. Thank you - have turned it off.
 
Annb said:
Is it not possible to turn predictive text off? Luckily my software only suggests, it doesn't actually change anything - my word processor is Libre Office, not MS Word. It does insist on American spelling, but that is the only problem with it. Even so, it doesn't do anything but underline in red and suggest the change.

Eating sweets at the moment - BG has dropped and I'm in the shaky stage of a hypo - misjudged the insulin with breakfast. I didn't have my normal hypo remedy of oatcakes or digestive biscuits to hand, nor any other starchy thing, so grabbed some dolly mixtures which I keep for cake decorating. They didn't stop the drop, so I've just had a few more and am hoping that works.

That might have worked - edged up to 3.1 now. We'll see if it drops again.

An old friend of mine - he was one of a group of friends when I was a teenager and I fancied myself "in love" for a while - haven't seen him since 2003 and only had occasional word via e-mail - has sent me a copy of a little book he has had published and, guess what - the starting point of his story is very similar to the one I am working on at present. It doesn't carry on in exactly the same way and his characters are different, but it's quite a timing coincidence. Only timing because the original idea was one we discussed way back then (1962 or 3). Great minds and all that. Took both of us quite a while for the idea to come to fruition.
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I have just turned predictive text off @Annb @Krystyna23040 but it is all or nothing...I am getting no written suggestions now...

EDIT... I am getting no suggestions now, but when I made today's entry, I typed 'pens'... but when I press post it had changed into 'pins' without telling me... so there still some AutoCorrect going on without telling me, even though I have a totally turned autocorrect off... and it had altered this last sentence quite a bit... so far it's just making no difference in turning AutoCorrect off...

Second edit...at 06.48
It makes no difference whether you have predictive text on or off... at least a not on my iPad....

If you turn predictive text off on my iPad then there are no suggestions in that blank suggestion line there is nothing at all, and it still changes the words unbeknownst to me...

If I have predictive text on burn, there are suggestions in the blank suggestion line, and in addition there's still the other thing while it changes the words and the grammar.

I am damned either way....

And yes, I have been onto ChatGPT... who tells me it depends what app you are using, or what site you are using and some are better than others . The only site that I have no problems with that it does not change anything. I write whether I have predictive test on or off is the social media site BlueSky.
 
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Fbg 6.9 for Monday

First drawing I have done in months...
I am totally out of practice.
The paper is still wet...!!!
And I can't find the pens I want...!!!!
I still have to find all my art materials...

Night night
Sweet dreams

Link to my painting...
www.blipfoto.com

First drawing I have done in months... | gennepher

First drawing I have done in months... I am totally out of practice. The paper is still wet...!!! And I can't find the pens I want...!!!! I...
www.blipfoto.com
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.9 for Monday

First drawing I have done in months...
I am totally out of practice.
The paper is still wet...!!!
And I can't find the pens I want...!!!!
I still have to find all my art materials...

Night night
Sweet dreams

Link to my painting...
www.blipfoto.com

First drawing I have done in months... | gennepher

First drawing I have done in months... I am totally out of practice. The paper is still wet...!!! And I can't find the pens I want...!!!! I...
www.blipfoto.com
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You haven't lost your touch, Gennepher.
 
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