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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

More like Notepad--, amirite

[–] fishbone@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month 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@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] pseudonym@monyet.cc 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

Of course subscription

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

/S, of course

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month 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@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

That's another issue, but I agree. I was just addressing the idea that this is what people need to help them be better writers.

All this will do is to teach them how to better write specific sentences. If they even read the suggestion before using it.

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month 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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[–] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month 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!

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 28 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month 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.

[–] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month 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.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month 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.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Or for the masochistic windows user in your life:

https://www.vim.org/

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

As it ahould be!

[–] morriscox@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month 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.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Almost like an AI wrote it

[–] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Oh yes, I write my articles in notepad, how did you know?

[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] JIMMERZ@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

Enshitification will continue until moral improves.

[–] dan@upvote.au 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Why are they adding this to Notepad rather than Word?

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month 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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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago

Nobody uses notepad the way Microsoft thinks people use notepad.

[–] jdw@links.mayhem.academy 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That’s LLM bullshit, sir.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Imitation Intelligence, captain.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

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

[–] MrWafflesNBacon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Oh god not Notepad!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month 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@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month 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?

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Why not both?!

[–] sag@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AI will never come for vim!

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Forgetting about the intrusion of shitty LLMs everywhere for a while... Who the fuck even uses notepad for something they would need redacted?

It's not a actual writing tool, it's a basic text file editor.

[–] meathorse@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And a formatting-stripping tool

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[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who cares, life was never the same after Wordpad passed away.

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Why, yes, I believe I will gladly pay for your AI Notepad bullshit, Microsoft! Sign me right the fuck up.

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 month ago

Well the headline got a chuckle out of me anyway. Still happy with Neon and it's lack of AI bullshit.

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

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

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