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Somehow I don’t have this problem with notepad.exe or vim or pandoc or imagemagic or textedit.app or resolve or blender. Maybe it isn’t the tech industry, and
by sneak 2y ago
Somehow I don’t have this problem
with notepad.exe or vim or pandoc or imagemagic or textedit.app or resolve or blender.
Maybe it isn’t the tech industry, and just consumer-facing apps.
- XorNot 2y agoOpen source has been looking better and better lately because it's not in a mad rush to bolt "AI" features onto it (an LLM will do something) and then shove a huge amount of interface in your face to try to get you to use it. On some level it's enormously baffling that this was the thing they decided they needed to do...conversely Adobe Reader on my phone won't shutup about liquid mode either (which uploads to Adobe servers) and Microsoft and Google's solution to "people don't want to use our AI assistants" was to ensure they literally can't be disabled or removed.
- halostatue 2y agoI will simply point you to the iTerm2 AI kerfuffle (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40458135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40458135) as proof that some in open source _are_ in a mad rush to bolt on completely unnecessary "features". It was a bad choice that never should have been implemented as "enabled but not configured", and I have moved away from iTerm2 as a result. I am sure that others have as well. (The grudging move to make it a separately downloadable plugin was good, but too late IMO.)
- immibis 2y agoOne of the rare times when the slow pace of open source innovation is actually a benefit, because all innovation that's occurring is making things worse.
- passwordoops 2y agoConsumer-facing apps are made by the tech industry, so it is and industry problem
- layer8 2y agoNotepad.exe is getting sloppified: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-rewrite-in-notepad-to-enhance-your-writing-with-ai-4088b954-c97b-46dc-813f-959be01746d5 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-rewrite-in-n...
- BearOso 2y agoI read that and saw: Tip: If you don’t have Windows Notepad installed, you can download it from the Microsoft Store. I have too much to say about that, so I'll just leave it.
- swiftcoder 2y ago... I did not know that one could uninstall Notepad
- layer8 2y agoSince Windows 10 at least: https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/remove_or_restore_notepad_in_windows_10.html https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/remove_or_restore_no...
- inglor_cz 2y agoNotepad++ is the way.
- taco_emoji 2y agojesus fucking christ
- sneak 2y agohttps://github.com/windows-source/MS-Notepad https://github.com/windows-source/MS-Notepad
- almostnormal 2y agoNotepad is attempting to fix spelling without asking.