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[–] henfredemars 43 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I really don’t want AI. Can’t it just be a regular notepad? Or a regular calculator? I’m a human and I want to do human things not be replaced by a machine. I want the software to serve me.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

I want the software to serve me.

Free Software is literally your only option, then. Everything else serves its corporate master first.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

Ai, which is famously good at maths.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 months ago

If you're not in control of your software then it's in control of you. Avoid proprietary software at all cost

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

W11 Enterprise IoT LTSC.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Since leaning about notepad++ I have not used the notepad. Sad to see there is now another reason not to launch notepad.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I copied the windows 10 notepad.exe to my 11 machine and use that instead.

[–] 01189998819991197253 4 points 2 months ago

I did the same thing with mspaint, but from Win98.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

On Windows, I switched from Notepad to Notepad++. When I switched to Linux, I tried using Notepadqq, which is just a Notepad++ fork with Linux support. But then I realized that Kate is actually miles ahead of Notepad++/qq.

I have zero clue how well it works on Windows, but I highly recommend trying it based on my Linux experience. Notepad++ and Kate are both FOSS either way, so you can't go wrong if you end up preferring or not preferring it.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Im a Sublime Text fan, I think their UI is cleaner than NP++ and I get a lot of milage out of the regex find/replace feature.

[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Me too. The multi-line select and edit feature has been a godsend so frequently. I use NP++ plenty too but I find Sublime far more useful out of the box and especially when I’m bouncing between Linux, macOS, Windows; it’s nice to have a consistent text editor across all platforms.

However I also use micro a lot if I’m just using the shell. It’s like Sublime but in the terminal and not proprietary too! Perfect for when you’re SSHing into servers and don’t want nano or vi. Best part, micro is a static binary so you can curl/wget it and spin it up straight away.

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago

"We have determined that a program called "Notepad" has become a security vulnerability, please remove it from all Windows systems."

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Everyone needs to just stop using Windows.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

just please fucking stop...

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

???

Is this a joke I'm too open source to understand?

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm a vim fan as well, once I figured out how pasting worked (not just yanking and putting, using the system clipboard) I couldn't use anything else.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that like an ad for vim?

Just get past the point when you learn copy paste, the real one using clipboard then wow then you will be so hooked

Yeah I'm intrigued but it sounds like a hard pass then

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, I just didn't know how to copy to the system clipboard. Its just highlighting the text, and pressing "*y

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 3 points 2 months ago

It's just funny that this is considered a step forward and hailed as useful. But I get it, I love keyboard navigation

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago

3===D

Copilot -> Make longer

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

You can bring back the old notepad and disable the new one.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

You know what doesn't have Copilot? Kate.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why are you using windows?

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some of us have jobs where there's no choice.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, don't look now but you're using Windows.

Ssshhh - don't look. It'll get suspicious.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My main computer uses Fedora, don't worry.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Your secondary computer knows

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought this happened over a year ago

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

The icon is more prominent now.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hahajaha, oh god, people still use Windows?

Jesus fucking Christ.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Lol. Lmao, even.

[–] esc27@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

At risk of completely triggering lemmy... that button is basically an Ad. It apparently only works if you are signed into a Microsoft account and have the right subscription, otherwise all you can do is view the available plans.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Go ahead and normalize this shit like you are doing and eventually every app will be nothing but a platform for add on services.