After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad
After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad
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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad
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I'm fairly anti-AI, but I can't imagine the use case for AI rewrite in Notepad. Word I can at least can see it, but Notepad?
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My best guess is that it's useful, if you specifically just have a snippet of text you want rephrased. Like, imagine you find a paper you want to plagiarize, so you copy some text, paste it into Notepad, click the rewrite-button, and then you can take it from there and paste it into your LaTeX editor. In some sense, Notepad is the minimal UI you need for that, which also starts up quickly.
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I found out that if you don't like the new win11 notepad with the tabs and all the other bullshit, you can just uninstall it, and the other, older, familiar notepad that was still there all the time, will take over, file type associations and all. This even worked on my work computer, where I am not an admin.
I was quite pleased that I could do this.
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Oh good one! I was thinking about the absurdity of having to uninstall notepad when this bullshit started. Now I know it's just a step. Thanks!
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SaaS - Shit as a Service.
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I am so glad I left Windows.
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I refuse to believe this is reality.
Imagine if this was the straw that broke the camel's back. Notepad goes subscription, and the world finally snaps.
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Fucking assholes.
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I agree. Until there is that one thing I want to do that windows just does better... Like iTunes backups.
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It should be noted that you can still use Notepad without a Microsoft account, and users can go as far as removing the Rewrite icon completely from Notepad. Despite the ability to still use the software without an account, Microsoft has received some criticism for implementing what is most definitely a paywall/advertisement for a built-in piece of Windows software.
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Sensationalized garbage. It's not going to be paywalled. Only the AI features are.
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Sadly sets a precedent, even if they are putting their AI features behind the paywall.
That being said, the daily reminder that Notepad ++ and LibreOffice are better anyways, and if you want to get Linux most versions have Gedit at the beginning.
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Sorry, Windows 11 is total shit but let's get this straight -- it's only the stupid "AI" features that are behind a paywall. Microsoft may have a black heart of pure greed, but if you want to pop open notepad.exe and type in Harry Potter fanfic, it still works free for no extra charge. If you want the AI to help you write a romantic encounter between Snape and Dumbledore, well, you're going to have to pay then... no way around it.
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Vscode (or Codium, whatever your preferred variant is) is still free of such junk.
People act like its an unfriendly IDE, but really, it's a good text editor that auto detects formats and stuff. Works fast with huge text blocks. You can ignore anything complex.
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To me, it's just weird how much hype there is about it, even though it's a fairly standard text editor. The features you mention, I expect from any editor that doesn't brand itself as 'featherweight' or whatever.
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I mean, VSCode is much deeper than that. To be blunt, few other IDEs, much less text editors, can compete with the critical mass its extension repo has accumulated, with, (as a random example) support for Paradox Script for game modding.
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Uhm WTF
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And so, Windows as a subscription service begins. [typo]
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surely this will embiggen people to find a new OS? Nah, who am i kidding.
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++ then
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Peak enshittification.
...must...resist...cheeky Linux comment
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i use debian btw
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I just shrank my partition but Im just gonna delete it and fully swap to linux, idc if I run into isues anymore, I always got a usb to restart and 90% of what I do is online
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Yeah, that's why I have libre office.
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And people still say emacs is bloated.
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Of all Microsoft products, notepad was the one I trusted the most. Now this!
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Welp, looks like Notepad++ will be getting a ton of new installs.
Not to mention it's far superior.
I think that's implied and why it will be getting a lot of new installs
Have been using it since God knows when. It's fantastic. Also i edited windows' registry to replace notpad.exe with npp.