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There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now (www.wired.com)
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[–] Fijxu@programming.dev 38 points 1 week ago (11 children)

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

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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?

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Notepad++ has a plugin that makes it the default even for things that would normally be go to Notepad.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You can either uninstall new version of Notepad or return to the old one using some registry trick (look it up).

Or you can download some version of Microsoft Notepad on the internet (probably not really that safe) or even ReactOS Notepad if you really insist of having such simple program, but using I'd recommend to use something like Notepad++ instead.

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