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Stern to [email protected]English • 8 months ago

AI Has Come for Sweet, Innocent Notepad

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AI Has Come for Sweet, Innocent Notepad

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Stern to [email protected]English • 8 months ago
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Notepad is getting AI features that Microsoft claims will help you improve your writing.
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  • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖
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    2•8 months ago

    Classic windows L. Come to the light side come to the linux master race.

  • @[email protected]
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    1•8 months ago

    That’s stupid, notepad is meant to be simple…

  • ivanafterall ☑️
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    First, they came for Wordpad, and I did not speak out–because I did not use Wordpad…

  • @[email protected]
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    9•8 months ago

    It assists with refining your writing by rephrasing your sentences, modifying your tone, and tweaking the length of your text based on your preferences.

    I don’t remember when was the last time I wrote a full sentence in Notepad yet alone needed an Ai redaction. Because it’s a fucking notepad! It’s for writing notes not essays!

  • @[email protected]
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    13•8 months ago

    Notepad++ ftw

    • @[email protected]
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      5•8 months ago

      Notepad# when?

      • @[email protected]
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        1•8 months ago

        That’s what the article is about

  • Lovable Sidekick
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    The fuck? This must be on Win 11. My Notepad still has to be told whether to search Down or Up, just like in 1990.

    • @[email protected]
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      4•8 months ago

      As it ahould be!

  • Snot Flickerman
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    9•8 months ago

    Notepad++

    • @[email protected]
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      8•8 months ago

      More like Notepad–, amirite

      • Fishbone
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        2•8 months ago

        Dunno if I’m misunderstanding you or you’re misunderstanding the person you replied to, but Notepad++ is a third party program unaffiliated with windows or notepad. It’s also an astronomical step up from notepad and it’s free and has optional plugins and whatnot.

        • @[email protected]
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          1•8 months ago

          asks AI politely to show line break characters

        • @[email protected]
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          8•8 months ago

          I’m aware, it was mostly a joke about these “features” making Notepad worse. Nevertheless, thank you :)

  • Boozilla
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    2•8 months ago

    https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

    or

    https://www.textpad.com/home

    • @[email protected]
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      1•8 months ago

      I love notepad++, but to me, both have different uses. Notepad is like my basic sticky pad just to copy-paste basic stuff to it and come back to reference throughout the day. Also, notepad opens instantly and everything else is slightly slower. It’s just the reason why I like it more. Notepad++ is for editing and manipulating data for me.

      • @[email protected]
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        1•8 months ago

        One of the uses of notepad was also that it’s installed by default, and was a place you could be assured wouldn’t mess with your text. No formatting, no weird characters you didn’t ask for.

        Notepad++ is great, but you can’t be assured it’s installed on any arbitrary Windows machine.

        • @[email protected]
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          Can’t you install Notepad++ to a thumb drive and run it by just plugging it into a Windows box? As a bonus, you can save Ann your text files to the thumbprint so they’re always right where you expect them.

          • @[email protected]
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            You can, but plugging thumb drives into work machines is not always kosher

            • Echo Dot
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              1•8 months ago

              I don’t have admin privileges and can’t install Firefox on my work computer but I can install Firefox on a thumb drive and then run it from the thumb drive because IT admins are idiots

        • @[email protected]
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          1•8 months ago

          And ephemeral unless you specifically wanted to save something. Since I got win 11 at work instead of disappearing on reboot the next time I open it I get 50 fucking notepad instances and I can’t find the actual doc that would’ve been useful to save because its in a background tab. Fuck this shit.

          • Echo Dot
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            Oh my god that drives me nuts. I haven’t saved it so why is it still here?

    • @[email protected]
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      https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3

      and honorary mention

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metapad

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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      2•8 months ago

      Or for the masochistic windows user in your life:

      https://www.vim.org/

      • Echo Dot
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        2•8 months ago

        I’m not convinced anyone actually likes vim. They are just use it to be edgy.

        • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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          1•8 months ago

          I don’t use it for windows because notepad++ exists, but I actually like vim because it’s 100% distraction free (none of the extra formating settings and such to distract me). Same reason I like nano.

  • @[email protected]
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    1•8 months ago

    Who cares, life was never the same after Wordpad passed away.

  • @[email protected]
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    4•8 months ago

    Enshitification will continue until moral improves.

  • @[email protected]
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    1•8 months ago

    Forgetting about the intrusion of shitty LLMs everywhere for a while… Who the fuck even uses notepad for something they would need redacted?

    It’s not a actual writing tool, it’s a basic text file editor.

  • sag
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    0•8 months ago

    Please put AI in my toilet too. Please I am begging.

    • @[email protected]
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      2•8 months ago

      I’ve heard of Mench on a Bench but never Robotty on the Potty

    • @[email protected]
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      you are joking but I am sure that will come too, toilet AI doing health checks based on the color and consistency of your poo

      • @[email protected]
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        1•8 months ago

        It’s gonna be real confused with the amount of beets I eat

  • @[email protected]
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    1•8 months ago

    As if the new notepad wasn’t already enough of a downgrade.

  • @[email protected]
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    0•8 months ago

    AI will never come for vim!

    • @[email protected]
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      0•8 months ago

      https://github.com/madox2/vim-ai

      • @[email protected]
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        1•8 months ago

  • Echo Dot
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    11•8 months ago

    Nobody uses notepad the way Microsoft thinks people use notepad.

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