• @Alpha71
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    12 minutes ago

    Yeah, that’s why I have libre office.

  • CounselingTechie
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    44 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    57 hours ago

    Sorry, Windows 11 is total shit but let’s get this straight – it’s only the stupid “AI” features that are behind a paywall. Microsoft may have a black heart of pure greed, but if you want to pop open notepad.exe and type in Harry Potter fanfic, it still works free for no extra charge. If you want the AI to help you write a romantic encounter between Snape and Dumbledore, well, you’re going to have to pay then… no way around it.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 hours ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    27 hours ago

    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

  • ZeroOne
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    17 hours ago

    Oh no they didn’t

  • @halcyoncmdr
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    811 day ago

    Welp, looks like Notepad++ will be getting a ton of new installs.

  • @[email protected]
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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.

    • @JeeBaiChow
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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!

    • @taiyang
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      101 day ago

      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 ++.

  • flamingos-cant
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    411 day ago

    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?

    • Ephera
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      81 day ago

      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.

  • paraphrand
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    101 day ago

    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.