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I used notepad precisely because it lacks features beyond writing text, this is such an anti feature

This is a pretty random Notepad story, but: in 1999 I was doing web development for Internet Explorer 6 (yes, I know) using Classic ASP and Visual Basic (5 or 6? I can't be bothered to look shit like that up). Probably my most important debugging tool was the "View Source" menu option in IE6, which would bring up the raw HTML of whatever page I was working on in Notepad. One day the "View Source" option just stopped working, completely. Clicking that menu wouldn't do anything at all; I tried everything I could think of but just couldn't fix the problem. For six months I was basically coding blind - I had no way of directly seeing the HTML my code was producing.

Somehow I managed to still get my work done. Then one day I stumbled across an obscure forum post that said "View Source" in IE6 would not work if you had a shortcut to Notepad on your Desktop. I of course had a shortcut to Notepad on my Desktop since I kept everything on my desktop (yes, I know). I renamed my shortcut to "NotepadX" and suddenly "View Source" in IE6 started working again. Possibly the happiest day of my programming life. I played around with it and found that it didn't have to actually be a shortcut to Notepad - it could be a shortcut to any program or file, but if it happened to be named "Notepad" it would block View Source from working.

I would give anything to find out where this particular bug came from. It's really bothered the shit out of me for the past 26 years. I don't see how it could ever happen accidentally, so I have to assume that some MS programmer somewhere really hated people with shortcuts to commonly-used programs on their Desktop and decided to punish them.

I mourn Notepad as well, but Notepad++ is great and it hasn't smeared shit on itself yet.

Good luck. As of this writing, I have UNINSTALLED copilot from Windows 11 Pro FOURTEEN TIMES in the past 3 weeks. I continually turn off its access to running in the background and terminate and its services in task manager multiple times a day. I've blocked the app in my non-MS antimalware suite. I have uac enabled to block unauthorized apps. I have disabled it in my startup apps repeatedly, to no avail .

I have disabled Edge browser everywhere possible, but Edge still manages to open itself up and REOPEN COPILOT even though I've disabled Edge multiple times and it is literally not the default app for even a single file type.

It's no longer POSSIBLE to install a single Office app, or uninstall single office apps. I do not need and do not want to bloat a ton of my SSD boot drive with Access and Designer and Publisher. The windows store standalone version of Outlook cannot load or save .pst backups.

MS has returned to even worse than its evil Borg ways. But now it's one of several threats to the continued existence of privacy anywhere for anyone.

Down with #enshittification #deshittify the #internet. Up with #CryptPad #Nextcloud #OnlyOffice (and to a lesser extent the commercial version #CollaberaOffice). Up with #StandardNotes and #ProtonMail, #ProtonCalendar, #ProtonDrive, #ProtonVPN, and #ProtonPass. Sad RIP to any and all security patches for #RIPLibreOffice (libre users - switch to security-patch-maintained software asap!)

Up with companies based in countries with strong privacy protections, that provide zero-knowledge services, and that do zero or minimal logging and discard logs swiftly (yay for thegood.cloud)!

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.

Its not really AI its just a string manipulation program, that, rather pointlessly, summarises paragraphs. The sort of thing you see done in BASIC in old program listing books.

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

I'm glad I left Windows again when I did (about 2 years ago). There's no AI bullshit in vim or mousepad. That said, vim is available on windows, so a full switch isn't necessary if you're not all about that Linux life.

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!

Installing cross-platform programs like that is a great way to prepare for a move over to penguin town, and check for any blockers keeping you from making the leap.

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

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

But why vivaldi of all things?