• CounselingTechie@slrpnk.net
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    8 hours ago

    Sadly sets a precedent, even if they are putting their AI features behind the paywall.

    That being said, the daily reminder that Notepad ++ and LibreOffice are better anyways, and if you want to get Linux most versions have Gedit at the beginning.

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      9 hours ago

      I agree. Until there is that one thing I want to do that windows just does better… Like iTunes backups.

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    Not that I’m using 11, but my response would be: Notepad? No thank you, I’ve got Notepad++. The plus mean it’s better, and it’s got two of them so you know it’s really good shit.

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      10 hours ago

      And it is objectively 1000% better, notepad is trash, i use notepad++ every day

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    I just shrank my partition but Im just gonna delete it and fully swap to linux, idc if I run into isues anymore, I always got a usb to restart and 90% of what I do is online

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    I found out that if you don’t like the new win11 notepad with the tabs and all the other bullshit, you can just uninstall it, and the other, older, familiar notepad that was still there all the time, will take over, file type associations and all. This even worked on my work computer, where I am not an admin.

    I was quite pleased that I could do this.

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      Oh good one! I was thinking about the absurdity of having to uninstall notepad when this bullshit started. Now I know it’s just a step. Thanks!

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      That’s actually really funny and I’m wondering if M$ won’t end up removing it down the line just to prevent the fallback being so easy for users (you know how you want to make things hard for your customers when you make products).

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        If they could just make a new operating system instead of tacking on bullshit on top of 30+ year old shit I wouldn’t complain. But as a sys admin of a building for of windows 11 shit…fuck Microsoft.

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        I can’t stand it when I make a product that doesn’t make my customers lives significantly worse. It makes me feel like a failure

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      Thanks for the tip. Tabs are dumb, auto saving is annoying, and notepad is literally only for tracking my thoughts since I’m a little scatterbrained. Otherwise I’m going to use a better option like sublime or ++.

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    I’m fairly anti-AI, but I can’t imagine the use case for AI rewrite in Notepad. Word I can at least can see it, but Notepad?

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      My best guess is that it’s useful, if you specifically just have a snippet of text you want rephrased. Like, imagine you find a paper you want to plagiarize, so you copy some text, paste it into Notepad, click the rewrite-button, and then you can take it from there and paste it into your LaTeX editor. In some sense, Notepad is the minimal UI you need for that, which also starts up quickly.

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    It should be noted that you can still use Notepad without a Microsoft account, and users can go as far as removing the Rewrite icon completely from Notepad. Despite the ability to still use the software without an account, Microsoft has received some criticism for implementing what is most definitely a paywall/advertisement for a built-in piece of Windows software.