Skull giver

I can’t say I care too much about this feature, but looking into it I can’t seem to find any documentation about it at all. Where are you getting this confirmation that you can’t disable it?

I’d just stop using Steam Chat if it’s not working for you, there are dozens of game chat services specifically built for chatting in games. Then again, I’d probably stop playing with people that make me self–conscious of typing indicators as well.

Also lol @ anything Valve designs being “modern”. Steam Chat looks, feels, and behaves like MSN Messenger did twenty years ago. Don’t let the gradients fool you.

Because Linux doesn’t have any legitimate programs to enforce the DRM on their files, presumably. Plus their .exes/.dmgs for companion tooling won’t work on Linux, unless you’re the kind of person smart enough to bypas this message.

To be honest, the code generating this message probably just checks if you’re on at least Windows 10 or macOS 14 to make sure their code works, and just echoes back the OS if it’s not supported (Android, iOS). I doubt anyone bothered testing for Linux on their website, let alone care to fix the problem.

They’re probably using a third party library to do user agent detection. I doubt anyone ever tested their code on Linux in the first place. They’re probably writing code like “if Windows version >= 10 or macOS version >= 10.14 or Android version > 10 or iOS version > 14” and Linux just happens to fall through because it has none of those versions.

Welcome to Lemmy, also known as “reddit for communists and people with a favorite Linux distro”!

Any comment regarding Windows or macOS will inevitably bring out the Linux fanboys. Even as someone who runs Linux everywhere I can, it’s kind of exhausting.

Notepad is little more than a wrapper around Microsoft’s text box control (and I suppose some AI API these days). It’s not part of notepad, it’s part of Windows itself. A great feature for most users, in my opinion.

The corrective part is in Settings > Time & Language > Typing > Highlight/Autocorrect misspelled words. You can download an alternative to Notepad and hope that it doesn’t integrate with the spelling API, but any update to that software might bring back autocorrect.

You might want to leave the highlight feature on so you get instant feedback on what words you misspell.

As for learning a language, there is scientific evidence that information sticks better in your brain when writing down things on physical paper than when typing. If you’re learning a language through random exercise, you might want to consider going back to pens & paper.