Note by @fastfinge

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

7mo

TIL: when you use adguard or another privacy protecting DNS, spellcheck in all Microsoft apps gets significantly worse. Apparently the "good" spellchecker requires some service it was blocking, and the fallback is terrible.

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Matthew J @bermudianbrit@mastodon.online

7mo

@fastfinge oi that's depressing.

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Andrew Hodgson @andrew@hodgson.io

7mo

@bermudianbrit @fastfinge How do we know we're using the inferior spell check?

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

7mo

transphobia

@andrew @bermudianbrit The way I first noticed it is when Voldemort started getting marked as spelled incorrectly using Microsoft Edge, when it never had been before. I then discovered that it couldn't suggest Dumbledore as a suggestion, no matter how close to the correct spelling I got. Then I noticed that modern terms like Kubernetes were also being considered misspellings. When I disabled AdGuard DNS and rebooted, the problems went away.

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