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Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession (www.theregister.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (17 children)

You know what's free (as in beer and speech) and not being enshittified? Notepad++

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Fun fact: Most of the features that people liked about the "new" Windows notepad were just stolen from Notepad++ anyway.

So you may as well just use Notepad++ and enjoy a better experience, plus about a zillion other things like numerous plugins, syntax highlighting for just about every programming language under the sun, immensely configurable color schemes, etc., etc., etc.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I know it's dumb but I was always a bit disappointed that Microsoft overhauled Paint in Windows 11 with layers and polish. To me, paint is always that terrible pre-packaged program that makes bad art. There was a community around making things in paint, which was noticeably impressive because making decent art in paint is a nightmare.

Now that it's actually fairly good... I don't know, it's lost its charm.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Its not actually good, and many actually good art programs far outshine it.

So its lost what made it unique, by being comedically bad, and become the death knell of most things in a capital focused system; mundane.

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

Now do paint. Or even more useless: calculator.

No need to "fix" notepad. It does what it has to. If you're a power user, you can download something else. But I'll bet it won't have Ai in it.

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