I don’t like having AI butting in with suggestions while I’m typing and I really don’t want to waste the energy it takes to run it, so I disable it as much as possible.
I disabled Gemini from my main Gmail inbox. A casualty of that is that I also lost spell check.
Mind you, spell check was there long before AI started butting in, but now it appears that you can only have spell check if Gemini is turned on.
While I try my best, I’m afraid that some typos have snuck into my emails.
I hope that people forgive them in exchange for my authentic voice, unaltered by AI.
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Linda’s prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday this week is “typo.” Join us! Find out more here: https://lindaghill.com/2026/09/18/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-september-19-2026/
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Good for you! Getting rid of AI is worth a few typos. I have to look into how to disable it.
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It can be tricky to do because it’s gotten so ingrained in the way things are designed and the companies don’t want you to stop using it. It may take looking to other sources besides the help offered within the produc.
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Yes. AI does pop up in tempting ways. Thanks for the encouragement!
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Give me an authentic you over AI every time 💜💜💜
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Thanks! ❤
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i understand this –
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I’m sure I’m not alone in this. It does annoy me that there are words that I know full well how to spell but somehow miss when I’m proofreading that I transposed letters or something.
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i think we all suffer from of bit of ‘blindness’ when trying to look at our own errors )
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True!
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Yes, exactly–authenticity is a higher value than perfection.
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If I were adept at needlework, I stitch that as a sampler. 😉
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Spell check is wrong more often than it’s correct anyway!
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LOL!
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