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

Microsoft remains convinced we want clippy everywhere regardless of how many times we have rejected these solutions!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Jeebus, u okay Microsoft? 😬

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

But still no AI in the calculator. Why is that Microsoft?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

I predicted you wanted to multiply your answer by 1.2x. No need to thank me!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

AI is the new "smart connected" that they are going to shoehorn into anything and everything. No one is asking for AI on Notepad.

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

No! Fucj you! I should have known the minute Microsoft started making you log in to use notepad windows was dead but this is unacceptable, note pad has exactly one purpose, to be as simple as possible. If I want Ai I will use any of a thousand other programs but keep my notepad sacred!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Wtf you have to login to use notepad now? Wtf???

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

I seem to recall back in (the rose tinted synthpop) 90's that Notepad was an example of Visual Basic... or at least we created it on a training course...

So, I'm surprised that anyone's done anything with it.

It's probably gone from a 12kB .exe to a 2GB file with another 10GB of .dlls

[–] [email protected] 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Is nothing sacred?

At least that’s one use case that Linux will always be awesome for - editing plain text without added bullshit (excepting any keyboard shortcuts you need to learn to save or exit, depending on your editor, lol).

And you can obviously do that on windows with any number of third party apps. But not having the basic clean text editor included in the base OS install just seems wrong.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

And most Linux distributions have a simple text editor shipped with their desktop environment (i.e. Kate or GNOME Text Editor).

I use vim, but there are simpler editors if you want something CLI, like nano or pico.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Yep, I’ll typically use vim or nano for editing existing files, but when in just want to make a quick temporary note or fiddle with some plain text it’s the graphical one that came with the DE.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

There should be AI Jesus in the bible!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Abrahamitic Incantations

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