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  • [Rant] Microsoft adding AI to Notepad

    From Andrew Singleton@singletona082@ctrl-c.club to tilde.meta on Sun Feb 23 07:28:09 2025
    https://www.tweaktown.com/news/103367/after-40-years-of-being-free-microsoft-has-added-paywall-to-notepad/index.html

    This is not a joke.

    This is happening.

    'but it's OK that's only if you're a 360 subscriber.'

    That they did it at all is what annoys me. Why? Just. WHY?! It's.
    NOTEPAD. The program that basically went unchanged since windows 3?
    Probably before then? It had LITERALLY ONE JOB....

    And Microsoft wants to shove LLM based 'AI' malarkey into it.

    Idiocy. Pure. Idiocy.

    Want to bet it scrapes everything you type regardless on if you're
    subscribed?

    Long has the joke been about microsoft selling malware. Windows 10 gave
    us a nagware screen that literally behaved like ransomware. Now this.

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  • From keyboardan@keyboardan@tilde.club to tilde.meta on Sun Feb 23 13:55:00 2025
    Andrew Singleton <singletona082@ctrl-c.club> writes:

    https://www.tweaktown.com/news/103367/after-40-years-of-being-free-microsoft-has-added-paywall-to-notepad/index.html

    This is not a joke.

    This is happening.

    'but it's OK that's only if you're a 360 subscriber.'

    That they did it at all is what annoys me. Why? Just. WHY?! It's.
    NOTEPAD. The program that basically went unchanged since windows 3?
    Probably before then? It had LITERALLY ONE JOB....

    And Microsoft wants to shove LLM based 'AI' malarkey into it.

    Idiocy. Pure. Idiocy.

    Want to bet it scrapes everything you type regardless on if you're subscribed?

    Long has the joke been about microsoft selling malware. Windows 10 gave
    us a nagware screen that literally behaved like ransomware. Now this.

    How about micro$oft wordpad? Is there AI in it too?
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  • From Andrew Singleton@singletona082@ctrl-c.club to tilde.meta on Sun Feb 23 09:02:48 2025
    On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:55:00 +0000
    keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club> wrote:


    How about micro$oft wordpad? Is there AI in it too?

    No, because microsoft killed wordpad last fall.

    https://www.windowslatest.com/2024/10/02/windows-11-24h2-deletes-wordpad-but-you-can-bring-it-back/



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  • From keyboardan@keyboardan@tilde.club to tilde.meta on Sun Feb 23 18:40:24 2025
    Andrew Singleton <singletona082@ctrl-c.club> writes:

    On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:55:00 +0000
    keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club> wrote:


    How about micro$oft wordpad? Is there AI in it too?

    No, because microsoft killed wordpad last fall.

    https://www.windowslatest.com/2024/10/02/windows-11-24h2-deletes-wordpad-but-you-can-bring-it-back/

    Things are going bad for controlled software users.
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