If you want full access to Notepad, Microsoft now requires users to pay, with the new changes to 40-year-old software adopting the 'freemium' model.
  • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Are people just going to keep reposting this misleading shit headline of a post until no one reads the article and just goes along with it?

    Are the people constantly reposting this even reading the article and realizing how illiterate they look?

  • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    This is misinformation. They added the login requirement for their Generative AI and the actual notepad doesn’t require a login. But I guess we’re ragebaiting today.

    • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I turned off that AI stuff as soon as I saw it. Click the gear icon in Notepad in the upper right to open settings and turn it off.

      • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Oh, one of the first things I did was group policy edit anything to do with tracking, ads, or AI.

        • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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          4 days ago

          Can’t wait to see in 5 years while all of the LLM nonsense quietly gets shuffled further and further to the back until it’s gone like Cortana or Paint3D

          Meanwhile has anyone noticed Microsoft has unhidden some genuinely useful older menus like Control Panel? Earlier in the windows 10 lifespan you couldn’t search for control panel and had to instead use constantly changing shortcuts and tooltips to gain access to it, but now you can just search for Control Panel and pull it right up. I’m not thrilled that I have to dig for the network adapter properties still but I’ll take the improvements I get

          • the_crotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            4 days ago

            I hate the information superhighway the world wide web the blogosphere social media web2.0 mobile the cloud IOT blockchain ar/vr generative AI

  • Nosavingthrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Oh god, how will replace a completely basic word processor? Surely there are not numerous replacements?

  • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    It should be noted that you can still use Notepad without a Microsoft account

    Despite the ability to still use the software without an account

    Are we not doing context anymore?

    What is this? Just outrage for the sake of outrage?

    • Nosavingthrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Don’t take this the wrong way, but it’s hard for me to contain my incredulity: have you been asleep for the last decade? Has a very obvious pattern of enshitification not been constantly proven as a rule on the tech sector? And an article is… outrage?