Notepad.exe is getting sloppified: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-rewrite-in-n...

I 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.

Notepad++ is the way.

... I did not know that one could uninstall Notepad

Since Windows 10 at least: https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/remove_or_restore_no...

jesus fucking christ

Open 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.

I will simply point you to the iTerm2 AI kerfuffle (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.)

One 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.

Consumer-facing apps are made by the tech industry, so it is and industry problem

Notepad is attempting to fix spelling without asking.