Welp, time to delete that shit and find replacements. Notepad++ is a solid upgrade over notepad, there must be something similar for paint that doesn’t have a steep learning curve?
There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now
Submitted 1 month ago by MrJgyFly@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.wired.com/story/theres-even-ai-inside-windows-paint-and-notepad-now-heres-how-to-use-it/
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libra00@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bezier@suppo.fi 1 month ago
PaintDotNet is what I used to use on windows. It was a great upgrade without being too complex.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
PaintDotNet is perfect if you only need some commonly used “pro” features. It’s a relatively easy transition from paint.
madame_gaymes@programming.dev 1 month ago
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I think Inkscape is brought up less often because of its focus on vector graphics, which can be confusing to people new to it.
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
Those are nice tools but they don’t replace paint, they’re way more complex.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I’m using pinta. When I type “paint” in my xfce search bar, it already brings it up automatically.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
GIMP isn’t that hard to use for basics.
libra00@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Does that even run on windows without a bunch of hoop-jumping and some jank-ass chunky qt-style UI elements? I seriously haven’t looked at GIMP in like 25 years.
aradgus@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
When you start adding bloat to notepad you know withea doubt you’ve really jumped the shark. Get fucked Microsoft
Fijxu@programming.dev 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
Notepad++ has a plugin that makes it the default even for things that would normally be go to Notepad.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You can either uninstall Notepad and return to the old one using some registry trick.
Or you can download some version of Microsoft Notepad on the internet or even ReactOS Notepad if you really insist of having such simple program, but using I’d recommend to use something like Notepad++ instead.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Bro, if we keep feeding the AI more and more data, he willl be like a real human, then will be cracking sick jokes with me. He will be my first real friend!” – Elon Musk probably
P1nkman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He will be my first real friend 🤣🤣🤣
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Notepad is perhaps better known as a code editor than a word processor
How many insane people are using notepad for software development that it’s “better known” for that?
spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think most everyone who is sane has moved on to coding in MS Word by now. Much better, and you can italicize and bold parts of the code for emphasis.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Case sensitivity in the language is soo last year. Formatting sensitivity is the new hottness!
neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Maybe they saw somewhere that people use it to format text and assumed that has something to do with programming.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 month ago
It used to be common.
dukethorion@lemmy.world 1 month ago
<funfact> The majority of the early internet (HTML) was mostly created in Notepad and similar basic text editors. </funfact>
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I truly can’t fathom why microsoft are so bad at these things. I actually like the photos “app” on windows but it recently updated to instead of allowing cropping and rotating to having a colourful button for “edit in designer” which doesnt open anything, creates a blank photos window and crashes.
They are so bad at improving customer experience. I have an opportunity next month with our cto and cio and I am hoping to get across just how shitty they are to deal with and interact with.
sounddrill@programming.dev 1 month ago
Please keep us updated!
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We are saving literal millions a yeae by moving from google. Its a bottom line decision, the best I can hope for is to colour their view to hold the opinion against the savings in discussions down the line.
Sharepoint overcomplicates everything.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Spider89@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Kate is also available on Linux.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Almost any default text editor on Linux is better than Windows notepad, and many are straight up better than Notepad++
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Photopea. Why bother with paint or a download when it’s all in a browser and Photoshop lol
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Great, shitty web UI instead of shitty AI UI.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The whole point of Paint and Notepad is that they’re extremely simple and no-frills.
If MS really wants to add this bloat, it should be to their Office suite.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 month ago
I think the whole point of Paint and Notepad is that they are installed by default. They are there to give you the most basic functionality MS can offer without charging you extra. Now they are simply trying to get some extra money by funneling users to AI/MS 365.
themaninblack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Switched to Linux Mint at home, quit my Windows developer job and having a great time. I’ll never go back.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In my house 3 computers are already running Linux (Raspbian on Raspberry Pi, Debian testing on my PC and openSUSE on a family laptop), and I already talked with my dad to install Linux on his personal laptop as well, which is probably going to be Linux Mint (I am planning to replace openSUSE on other laptop with Linux Mint as well, because openSUSE sucks).
normonator@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Holy shit is notepad just fucking ruined.
I don’t need any of that shit I just need to view a short log or something on someone elses computer. Now it cant do that without auto saving and reopening shit.
Nobody is writing a document anyone cares about with notepad just fucking leave it.
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Notepad++ is good.
normonator@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Ya but I’m not installing that on other people’s computers. Also its more than needed for notepad things.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I tvink it’s useful to be able to talk about some nuances of gender, so maybe use woman for biological double the Ai?
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Out of curiosity I’ve tried the AI feature in Paint (on my work computer) to erase something and use AI to fill in the background
I was removing a line between two items on a flowchart, background had diagonal colored lines in a regular repeating pattern think college ruled paper at an angle.
Instead of connecting the lines in the background it seemed to just take an average of the pixel colors of the edge of what I erased and fill it in with that average color. Such intelligence!
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I’ve been writing a small powershell script at work lately and as vscode now offers their AI bundled in I just tried it out of curiosity. It does a half decent job. Nothing I couldn’t write on my own, but on a simple script it saved some time as I’m a long term linux guy and just getting my toes wet with powershell so I need to dig up proper functions and syntax pretty often.
But it also created a script which would have broken syntax and errors in it, so it still needed manual tweaking, but as long as you know what you’re doing it can be useful. And also potentially dump your company data to some learning database.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Instead of connecting the lines in the background it seemed to just take an average of the pixel colors of the edge of what I erased and fill it in with that average color. Such intelligence!
Paint has two AI models depending on your hardware, whether you have a “Copilot Plus” PC or not.
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They need to put AI inside the AI next and add a couple more full screens of ads , some subscriptions and super ultra premium++ edition OS DLC for functionality to save files.
dbtng@eviltoast.org 1 month ago
Win11 Paint annoys the hell out of me. This is it. We are breaking up. I’m going back to old Paint.
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Ickabod@lemm.ee 1 month ago
And that AI is not free either. They bundled it with the Office update
j0ester@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A1… it’s all computer!
11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 month ago
On mobile so excuse my not linking to site but winaero tweaker has links for instructions how to replace current notepad with the classic notepad. Haven’t looked back since.
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Good news everyone!!!
Microsoft Ctrl-C copy is now fully AI!
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
archive?
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 month ago
You know you can just copy the URL and prepend it with “archive.xx/” right?
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
couldn’t you just link it (archive.is)
JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
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