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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Nobody uses notepad the way Microsoft thinks people use notepad.

[–] repungnant_canary 31 points 4 days 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!

[–] ivanafterall 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

First, they came for Wordpad, and I did not speak out--because I did not use Wordpad...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

That's what the article is about

[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] FooBarrington 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

More like Notepad--, amirite

[–] fishbone 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] FooBarrington 11 points 4 days ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Oh my God, AI and a subscription model. Kill me now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Of course subscription

Didn't you know that AI can only run on servers?

/S, of course

[–] LovableSidekick 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] AngryRobot 14 points 4 days ago

As it ahould be!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

Enshitification will continue until moral improves.

[–] FlyingSquid 37 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Well that's weird, because I didn't need AI to improve my writing.

All it took was one very good and very short book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style

I don't agree with everything in it, but I agree with most of it.

[–] Stern 41 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Personally I don't use Notepad for writing writing. Its a functional writing app. A app for copying and pasting code, or making a list, or crude ascii art. If I need to bold something, or do text formatting, thats when I open up the several orders of magnitude larger office apps.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah. I hate reading "essays" generated by an AI.
Keep it short for better reader experience.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Everytime I see a commercial where someone uses AI to make something larger and embellish and such, I think of the other commercials where people use the same AI to summarize it for them.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Exactly. I write well enough. I only use AI if I'm just stuck for words and want to get a suggestion. Sometimes it's good enough, sometimes it's way off base, but was enough kick to get things going in my brain.

I'd appreciate some added AI to give suggestions occasionally, but it needs to be implemented well. I hate when Word tells me to phrase something differently as if it 100% correct. No, I worded it that way because that's how I want to say it.

The real damage will be when everybody starts sounding alike because there are defined acceptable ways to say things.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago

That's stupid, notepad is meant to be simple....

[–] Boozilla 26 points 5 days ago (4 children)
[–] HeyJoe 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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] 8 points 5 days ago (4 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 5 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Or for the masochistic windows user in your life:

https://www.vim.org/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days 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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

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

[–] morriscox 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Recently, another innocent app, Notepad, also got some AI features.

Dude, you just talked about Notepad. You are thinking of Microsoft Paint. Your article needs to be proofread.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Almost like an AI wrote it

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Why are they adding this to Notepad rather than Word?

[–] d00ery 15 points 5 days ago

I'd guess the codebase that keeps Word running is so convoluted by now they have trouble shoehorning it in.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] iAvicenna 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

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

[–] AngryRobot 7 points 4 days ago

And the collected data will be sold to every type of insurance provider you have.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That’s LLM bullshit, sir.

[–] LovableSidekick 4 points 4 days ago

Imitation Intelligence, captain.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

AI will never come for vim!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

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

[–] homesweethomeMrL 9 points 5 days ago

This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of notepad . . and will soon see the end of text entry itself.

*ohhshh . . pahhhh*

[–] Rukthag 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is this so a user is assisted with AI or is it more that it’s yet another vector for Microsoft to be gathering more training data?

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[–] MrWafflesNBacon 9 points 5 days ago

Oh god not Notepad!

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