Me emitting 20KG of CO2 by using Google search to spellcheck individual words

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• etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s 2026 – replace “Google search” with LLMs.

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  • Beep@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I would get down voted to the earth core if I did that.

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    • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Tbh I use it for de-fluffing AI articles/job descriptions/what have you.

      I get that the technology is problematic in all kinds of ways, but if I have to use it "(and can use it without giving them money)* to nullify it’s negative impacts in my life, I’m probably just gonna say fuck it every time.

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    • riskable@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The core of the earth is very warm already though.

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Seems like a google problem, maybe they should invest more in green energy

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• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well, stop doing it, use search within some dictionary (eg wiki).

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Because spell check is crap now it just turns into an add for grammerly

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  To be fair, I’m looking for a definition more often than spellchecking. I’ll be typing along, and I’ll pull a word out of my head that I haven’t used in ages, and I’m not sure if it’s the right word, so I search for a definition.

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• NochMehrG@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I feel attacked!

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• SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I didn’t expect google search be this energy intensive (estimated between 0.2 g and 10 g CO2 per search request) and wanted to be smartass with question “are you spellchecking entire libraties?”. This gives average geometric around 1.5 g and 13k words… Short story or novelette?

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I generated a cute kitty and burned down Brazil.

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• Skyrmir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You kinda have to when most local spell checkers suck so bad.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m quite satisfied with language tool.

    It doesn’t get every esoteric variant of words, but adding a few to its dictionary over time brought it to whatever vocabulary I know.

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    • PainInTheAES@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yep it’s great, does well with grammar, and it has good multi language support. At least between what I’ve tried, English and Dutch

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    • Skyrmir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Most of the time for me it’s not even that the spell checker doesn’t know the word, it’s that it can’t unmangle my typing or misspelling. Teh it knows is wrong, and obviously knows ‘the’, but doesn’t even suggest it as a correction.

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• LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Tried that. Half the Internet is full of incorrect spellings, so a lot of times I do the search, I see it used that way a lot, Google doesn’t show a correction in the top, and still use the wrong spelling.

  It’s not just regional spelling either, it’s just people using it incorrectly a lot.

  Can’t use search to validate spelling anymore in unless it’s a really common word.

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