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AI Has Come for Sweet, Innocent Notepad (gizmodo.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Stern to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] T156 3 points 1 week ago

You can turn it off, but the fact that you have to go into the settings and toddle about is ridiculous.

It's a notepad, why does it even need settings to twiddle?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Oh my god that drives me nuts. I haven't saved it so why is it still here?

[–] AngryRobot 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can, but plugging thumb drives into work machines is not always kosher

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week 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