• Fishbone
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        914 days ago

        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.

    • Phoenixz
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      1114 days ago

      Of course subscription

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

      /S, of course

    • SternOP
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      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.

      • Flying Squid
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        714 days 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
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      Yeah. I hate reading “essays” generated by an AI.
      Keep it short for better reader experience.

      • @[email protected]
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        714 days 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        314 days ago

        There’s a place for more formal writing.

        But the point of using precise, formal language is the intent behind it. If you’re just RNG-ing it it loses all meaning.

    • @[email protected]
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      213 days ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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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!

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        714 days ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          114 days ago

          Can’t you install Notepad++ to a thumb drive and run it by just plugging it into a Windows box? As a bonus, you can save Ann your text files to the thumbprint so they’re always right where you expect them.

      • Boozilla
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        314 days ago

        I totally get that.

        Check out Textpad. You might like it. The only nuisance with it is the default config settings are a little oddball (things like keyboard shortcuts, etc). But it’s highly configurable so you can set it up the way you like and then it’s good. It has more features than Notepad, but it’s still pretty simple and can do cool things like search files / folders for strings, has regex support, etc. But the extras stay out of your way and it’s pretty clean and simple for “notepad-like” usage.

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    First, they came for Wordpad, and I did not speak out–because I did not use Wordpad…

  • @[email protected]
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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.

  • morriscox
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    2014 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      1514 days ago

      I’d guess the codebase that keeps Word running is so convoluted by now they have trouble shoehorning it in.

    • @[email protected]
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      214 days ago

      Enterprise would riot if they did.

      They might do it later, but as it stands, this isn’t the old notepad, and gets used by a good bit more than just Enterprise users, so they can stick their AI into it.

  • Optional
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    914 days 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*

  • @[email protected]
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    914 days ago

    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?