If you want full access to Notepad, Microsoft now requires users to pay, with the new changes to 40-year-old software adopting the 'freemium' model.
  • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Are people just going to keep reposting this misleading shit headline of a post until no one reads the article and just goes along with it?

    Are the people constantly reposting this even reading the article and realizing how illiterate they look?

  • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This is misinformation. They added the login requirement for their Generative AI and the actual notepad doesn’t require a login. But I guess we’re ragebaiting today.

        • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Can’t wait to see in 5 years while all of the LLM nonsense quietly gets shuffled further and further to the back until it’s gone like Cortana or Paint3D

          Meanwhile has anyone noticed Microsoft has unhidden some genuinely useful older menus like Control Panel? Earlier in the windows 10 lifespan you couldn’t search for control panel and had to instead use constantly changing shortcuts and tooltips to gain access to it, but now you can just search for Control Panel and pull it right up. I’m not thrilled that I have to dig for the network adapter properties still but I’ll take the improvements I get

          • the_crotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I hate the information superhighway the world wide web the blogosphere social media web2.0 mobile the cloud IOT blockchain ar/vr generative AI

    • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I turned off that AI stuff as soon as I saw it. Click the gear icon in Notepad in the upper right to open settings and turn it off.

      • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Oh, one of the first things I did was group policy edit anything to do with tracking, ads, or AI.

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 months ago

    I don’t think it’s ragebait/clickbait. I think it’s really problematic that just a simple text editor get this bad by enshittification.

    • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      But it is though, it’s for a feature that you don’t need and can just turn off and never see again…

      • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
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        2 months ago

        I think you got used to used to it, if you would use Linux for 15 years (like me), then going back to Windows really shows all these problems of Microsoft.

        The biggest problem here that you get this pop-up in the first place… And I’m pretty sure it’s not only Notepad, all Microsoft products (including Windows) is getting worse and worse due to enshittification.

        • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I use notepad++ like most sensible people so I didn’t even know this was a thing until I read this article and even then, you have to click the button to get the pop up. It definitely should be opt in and not just sitting there, but if you’re just trying to write a quick note it’s not just popping up and stopping you.

  • yggdar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The title is quite sensational compared to the content. They only added an AI Rewrite feature for notepad that requires a Microsoft 365 subscription. Considering the cost of AI, and the fact that it will very probably run in the cloud, it is very reasonable that it isn’t free. Everything else about notepad remains free / included with the price you paid for the OS.

    • Noedel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I agree, but the idea of adding AI to notepad is quite insane in its own right

    • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Is it though? I still always open notepad for random text stuff. What is better in ++?

      • RustyShackleford@literature.cafeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Notepad++ isn’t trying to shoehorn in AI for starters. It’s clear Microsoft is praying the current gimmicky narrative of AI will let the masses not realize this is a privacy nightmare.

      • kava@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Gnome is an opinionated desktop environment and that turns some people off. But it’s bold enough to make some design decisions and have a limited scope. KDE tries to be another Windows alternative.

        Of course, you could go with a tiling window manager but my vote goes to Gnome. I’ve had a very smooth experience on Gnome for the last couple years.

        • Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.comEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Yeah, Gnome is like the Apple of the Linux world. The devs have the same kind of “we know better than you do” mentality towards design. The issue tracker is a lot of “hey the OS won’t let me do [edge-case scenario that an OS should be able to do, but which most users won’t bother with]” followed by the devs going “Gnome isn’t designed to support [edge-case scenario]. Bug report closed.” Like the devs have a very “it’s not a bug; It’s a feature” mentality, and anyone who runs into that bug must be using the OS “wrong”.

      • mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        IMO:

        • want to show off? i3wm with gaps and rofi for menu launcher. Add it some transparency effects too.

        • want the MacOS style? Gnome. Default on a lot of distros.

        • want something stable? XFCE. Install and forget.

            • Brumefey@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Lightroom mobile and web are not at the level of Lightroom Classic. It’s highly subjective but I enjoy the web version for quickly editing a few pictures, but for the management of my library which contains more than 20k pictures, no app is as good as Lightroom Classic. I tried a few ones and always went back…

  • Nosavingthrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Oh god, how will replace a completely basic word processor? Surely there are not numerous replacements?

  • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It should be noted that you can still use Notepad without a Microsoft account

    Despite the ability to still use the software without an account

    Are we not doing context anymore?

    What is this? Just outrage for the sake of outrage?

    • Nosavingthrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Don’t take this the wrong way, but it’s hard for me to contain my incredulity: have you been asleep for the last decade? Has a very obvious pattern of enshitification not been constantly proven as a rule on the tech sector? And an article is… outrage?