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I have a MacBook that was meant to replace my aging Windows and Linux laptops. This article is a microcosm of why I have just stopped using it. An endless stream of mollycoddling, obfuscation and "It's for your own good, child" trash. I can't even bring myself to sell it because I'm ashamed of it.

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But ... the point of that vulgar words list is to STOP autocorrecting them when it detects intentional use.

The parent post is a microcosm of why he's actually not using the Macbook - he doesn't understand how it works.

Oh, I understand. I don't agree with it.

Also you can disable autocorrect. I don't even have this list.

Oh and to be clear, this isn't one of those Windows things like "oh just disable this in some hacky unsupported regedit way, how did you not know this," or the default browser setting that flips itself back, or other settings that it'll nag you to change back every day. I mean MacOS has a properly supported setting for this and I haven't seen an autocorrection in years.

Install Linux on it and carve a big X over the apple logo

I have Asahi on my mac book mini - it turns a nice piece of hardware into a wonderful computer to use :)

There's no X in Wayland

I do not bother with X or Wayland when I can help it.

Herdr on a framebuffer and I am all set.

To be crystal clear, this internal framework and these databases exist as tweaks to make these words be autosuggested to / autocorrected to more often than they would be before the tweak.

Also, not only Windows and Android but even Linux (aspell / hunspell) also have+use “don’t suggest this word in autosuggest” metadata tags in their dictionary databases.

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