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Notepad (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 hours ago by rustydrd@sh.itjust.works to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 4 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

Notepad had one job. Operate on a damn text file. Operate on the damn text files I choose.

I knew it was going down the drain when I reopened Notepad and it opened the files that were previously open. No. Don't do that. That's overly helpful. You were only supposed to operate on the damn files I chose. These files I'm about to work with aren't necessarily the files I previously worked on. If I want this functionality I might as well open it in vscode.

I'm, like, screw it, might as well keep Emacs running if I need random temporary text editing.

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 minutes ago

Personally I find that feature (including tabs in general) very helpful and is something i'd expect from a text editor in the 20th century.

Just my opinion. To each their own, but just wanted to share that it might also be many others' opinion too.

[–] myrak@lemmy.world 3 points 58 minutes ago

Use Copilot to write your own Notepad. With Blackjack. And hookers.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 points 50 minutes ago (1 children)

People complain that Linux is inconvenient but then prostrate themselves upon the broken, buggy, ad-infested spyware that is Windows. Doesn't seem very convenient to me. This person thought that their Notepad data was private before Copilot? Ha!

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 minutes ago

Sadly most people grow up using and are tought Windows from the first time they touch a computer so its quirks and workarounds of bugs are engrained in the users mind.

Uprooting their entire (current) knowlegebase is inconvenient.. but it's still for the greater good of their privacy and in my opinion effectiveness of whatever they do.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 hours ago

linux is definetly not all of that anymore.

but yes, one step at a time, its time will come for ya.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Vivaldi

Ahm, sure?

[–] Ton@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, was wondering about that. I’ve just installed it for the first time and while it looks OK, i’m wondering what the catch is.

Any privacy or security holes that one might to be aware of?

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Just the usual one: it's a proprietary fork of Chromium.

[–] Ton@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Ah.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 49 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

AI sure killed the motto KISS. Copilot for notepad is literally using a nuclear reactor to light a single bulb.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 3 points 41 minutes ago

Gotta scoop all the data from everywhere on your machine, even the temporary notes you don't save.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

The new moto is “keep giving me money stupid”

How wasting billions on AI accomplishes that goal, I don’t know but I’m sticking with FOSS apps and platforms just to be safe

[–] tostiman@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 hours ago (10 children)

Figuratively

[–] theblips@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

The use of "literally" is part of the figure of speech you're pedantically referring to. Saying "figuratively" would be redundant, as everyone knows Copilot is not a nuclear reactor, and also declaring that you are using a figure of speech "weakens" it (like /s for sarcasm). By saying "literally" they are saying "wow, this fits so well that this isn't even a metaphor anymore".
If you want to correct everyone for saying literally instead of figuratively, correct every teenager saying "I'm actually dying rn 😂" with "ackshually you're not ACTUALLY dying, as I can see you are still alive typing tips fedora"

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

That too.

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 52 points 7 hours ago (17 children)

i installed arch on my laptop almost 10 years ago

I have to fix something maybe once a year and I only update once a week, if i remember

reboot maybe one time in a month

the myth that you need to fix Linux constantly needs to die

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I don't know what you're talking about because when I tried Linux it was a nightmare. The only thing that worked properly ironically was the printer. It's straight up would not play sound, if I plugged in headphones it would play sound but it would not play sound through the speakers. There were lots of people telling me I needed to install new sound drivers, or run arbitrary commands. None of them fixed it.

It ended up being a problem with the USB driver. That's ridiculous, I shouldn't have to mess around with a driver for an internal component.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 32 minutes ago

What distro?

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like my experience from a while ago.

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 minutes ago

Yeah, wondering myself if this guys experience was also from a long time ago or maybe just an obscure device or something.

[–] OhShitSon@lemm.ee 11 points 4 hours ago

I switched from W10 to Fedora KDE a little over a month ago, and the amount of troubleshooting I had to go through during this time is unlike anything I've ever faced with Windows. I think I have a handle on things now, but the switch to Linux as a casual user was not as seamless as I'd been told over and over.

Others experience may be different of course, but in my experience Linux is not as easy to use as Windows.

Still happy with my choice to not swap back to Windows though.

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[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

There's a lot of discussion here without any mention of Sublime Text.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Are you even a programmer if you don’t just do everything through ed?

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