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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was already done with windows, but if I hadn’t decided yet the AI in notepad definitely would have put me over the edge. That’s insane.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah they just want to collect every single bit of data you have. AI is a data collection tool. A reason to send everything you type or use to their servers. I swapped to Linux fully over 4 years ago and my windows 10 install is still sitting on my older SSD drive. It's a good reminder to format that thing and use it as a backup drive in my Unraid setup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

What is a good linux program that serves this same purpose? Specifically removing formatting from copied text.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sublime. It's more like notepad++ but will serve the purpose.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Notepad in wine ^(/s)

gnote usually works

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

it is windows btw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So windows 11 sucks for a number of reasons, but one thing it doesn't suck for is updating the notepad program to have autosave and being able to reopen last notes even if not saved to a file directly. Makes it actually usefull as a notepad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It does AI autocorrect to text though, which I'm not sure how I feel. It hasn't ruined anything for me just yet, but they're starting to try and make it automagical, which is exactly what I needed not to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Oh gross. I haven't noticed that yet but will watch out for it

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

Yeah, that was the only way that worked consistently. Buttons like "Paste Without Formatting" failed in more than a few cases.


Past tense, because it works on Linux. But I still have the old habit and use KWrite sometimes.

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

Shift + ctrl + v is paste without formatting

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Outlook intercepts and disables it because of course it does and instead pastes it with the formatting but with a little drop down box at the end of your text pass address you can click to remove the formatting like you tried to do with you with hotkeys.

I have to use Outlook for work, but never intentionally do so if I choice. Truly amazing. If there's anything that can be messed up, it will be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Also, the “Paste Without Formatting” button is paste without formatting

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'm trying to remember if I've ever run kwrite beyond the first time 20 years ago when I wanted to see what it was.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just paste and then copy whatever i need into the address bar of any browser and its good to go. Unless its very long.

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

There is a good chance that whatever you are pasting is being sent to Google.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Im using safari and more recently opera, but since that is chinese now, im guessing this isnt much better :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I use Firefox with DuckDuckGo. But I do agree that Google is so pervasive in the browser space that pasting text to the URL bar without further context can be reasonably understood in most instances, as sending data to Google.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Huge chance. No question.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Nailed it, this is the only reason I've used notepad for years. Speaking of which, now that I'm permanently on Linux I should lfind a command line way to do this - there has to be one, if not many.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Just slap it in Geany.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You don't need Linux or any command line tools to do this, there's lots of apps that can strip formatting from the clipboard content, heck Windows Power Toys also comes with this feature built in, it's just a simple keyboard shortcut

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mainly use the Blue Velvet editor (works also in mobile). There you can save locally in plain text (without any format), PDF or in htm. (Rich text or code). Works right in the browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This is a good one. 😂

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