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There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now
(www.wired.com)
Welp, time to delete that shit and find replacements. Notepad++ is a solid upgrade over notepad, there must be something similar for paint that doesn't have a steep learning curve?
PaintDotNet is what I used to use on windows. It was a great upgrade without being too complex.
I think Inkscape is brought up less often because of its focus on vector graphics, which can be confusing to people new to it.
Yeah I’ve only used Inkscape a little bit but I would not categorize it as a program that can quickly be picked up
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GIMP isn't that hard to use for basics.
I never understood this one. What kind of course would you be doing that required very expensive paid software, but you didn't know ahead of time that said software was required. I think the imaginary OP is just an idiot.
I personally think that's the point. It just mocks the Linux Fanboys.
4chan greentext is mostly fanfic, always has been
It reads to me more as joke than something that tries to sell itself as a true story
Lol this resonates with me as a disorganized person
This one always gets a chuckle out of me.
Glad I made you happy!
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When you start adding bloat to notepad you know withea doubt you've really jumped the shark. Get fucked Microsoft
Man, does ANYONE needs this? Probably no one. This addition is just another way to force people to use AI so they can gather more personal information about that person. Specially with Notepad.
Will people be able to do thing without AI on the future if it's being pushed so hard on everything? Like, they want to make our brains smoother and dumber lol
The worst part is if I'm using a work computer or something, I can't just type into notepad anymore without considering that a record is being made.
Is there a Windows+R "oldnotepad.exe" that just works pre-installed?
Notepad++ has a plugin that makes it the default even for things that would normally be go to Notepad.
I installed npp on one work computer but I don't want to on the other one. I just want to use what is already installed.
"Bro, if we keep feeding the AI more and more data, he willl be like a real human, then will be cracking sick jokes with me. He will be my first real friend!" -- Elon Musk probably
He will be my first real friend
🤣🤣🤣
Nobody's forcing you to use it. I didn't even know it was there until this article pointed it out, and when I tried it in Notepad it turned out to need an Office 365 subscription that I don't have. So by default I can't use it even if I want to use it.
So by default I can’t use it even if I want to use it.
You can use the feature for free by using Microsoft's Copilot chat bot, making the subscription requirement even more stupid.
Again, that's not forcing anything. That's even less so - you have to deliberately go to an AI application in that case.
I wasn't making a comment regarding forcing, I was sharing an anecdote how Microsoft themselves are offering free workarounds for features they want to get paid for.
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Notepad is perhaps better known as a code editor than a word processor
How many insane people are using notepad for software development that it's "better known" for that?
I think most everyone who is sane has moved on to coding in MS Word by now. Much better, and you can italicize and bold parts of the code for emphasis.
Case sensitivity in the language is soo last year. Formatting sensitivity is the new hottness!
Maybe they saw somewhere that people use it to format text and assumed that has something to do with programming.
It used to be common.
Holy shit is notepad just fucking ruined.
I don't need any of that shit I just need to view a short log or something on someone elses computer. Now it cant do that without auto saving and reopening shit.
Nobody is writing a document anyone cares about with notepad just fucking leave it.
Notepad++ is good.
Switching to Linux is even better.
Ya but I'm not installing that on other people's computers. Also its more than needed for notepad things.
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Switched to Linux Mint at home, quit my Windows developer job, and having a great time. I’ll never go back.
Win11 Paint annoys the hell out of me. This is it. We are breaking up. I'm going back to old Paint.
I ditched Notepad for Metapad years ago.
They need to put AI inside the AI next and add a couple more full screens of ads , some subscriptions and super ultra premium++ edition OS DLC for functionality to save files.
Out of curiosity I've tried the AI feature in Paint (on my work computer) to erase something and use AI to fill in the background
I was removing a line between two items on a flowchart, background had diagonal colored lines in a regular repeating pattern (think college ruled paper at an angle).
Instead of connecting the lines in the background it seemed to just take an average of the pixel colors of the edge of what I erased and fill it in with that average color. Such intelligence!
I've been writing a small powershell script at work lately and as vscode now offers their AI bundled in I just tried it out of curiosity. It does a half decent job. Nothing I couldn't write on my own, but on a simple script it saved some time as I'm a long term linux guy and just getting my toes wet with powershell so I need to dig up proper functions and syntax pretty often.
But it also created a script which would have broken syntax and errors in it, so it still needed manual tweaking, but as long as you know what you're doing it can be useful. And also potentially dump your company data to some learning database.
Instead of connecting the lines in the background it seemed to just take an average of the pixel colors of the edge of what I erased and fill it in with that average color. Such intelligence!
Paint has two AI models depending on your hardware, whether you have a "Copilot Plus" PC or not.
Pinta has become my favorite image editing tool. Every other one I feel like I have to fight with in order to do anything (looking at you Gimp), but Pinta is so easy and intuitive it's a joy to use.
And that AI is not free either. They bundled it with the Office update
A1… it’s all computer!
On mobile so excuse my not linking to site but winaero tweaker has links for instructions how to replace current notepad with the classic notepad. Haven't looked back since.
Good news everyone!!!!!
Microsoft Ctrl-C copy is now fully AI!
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