First, they came for Wordpad, and I did not speak out--because I did not use Wordpad...
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Why are they adding this to Notepad rather than Word?
I'd guess the codebase that keeps Word running is so convoluted by now they have trouble shoehorning it in.
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As if the new notepad wasn't already enough of a downgrade.
Notepad++
More like Notepad--, amirite
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.
I'm aware, it was mostly a joke about these "features" making Notepad worse. Nevertheless, thank you :)
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Oh my God, AI and a subscription model. Kill me now.
Of course subscription
Didn't you know that AI can only run on servers?
/S, of course
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.
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.
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.
Exactly. I write well enough. I only use AI if I'm just stuck for words and want to get a suggestion. Sometimes it's good enough, sometimes it's way off base, but was enough kick to get things going in my brain.
I'd appreciate some added AI to give suggestions occasionally, but it needs to be implemented well. I hate when Word tells me to phrase something differently as if it 100% correct. No, I worded it that way because that's how I want to say it.
The real damage will be when everybody starts sounding alike because there are defined acceptable ways to say things.
Yeah. I hate reading "essays" generated by an AI.
Keep it short for better reader experience.
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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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!
That's stupid, notepad is meant to be simple....
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.
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.
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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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.
As it ahould be!
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.
Almost like an AI wrote it
Oh yes, I write my articles in notepad, how did you know?
Notepad++ ftw
Notepad# when?
That's what the article is about
Enshitification will continue until moral improves.
Nobody uses notepad the way Microsoft thinks people use notepad.
Classic windows L. Come to the light side come to the linux master race.
Oh god not Notepad!
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*
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?
Why not both?!
Please put AI in my toilet too. Please I am begging.
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
And the collected data will be sold to every type of insurance provider you have.
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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.
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