Dave uses GPT Codex Max 5.1 in Extra High mode to generate a perfect clone of Notepad that brings back everything you missed about it
Just use Notepad++ instead?
Microsoft “Improved” Notepad. I Un-Improved It. - Dave's Garage
Submitted 3 days ago by BlueEther@no.lastname.nz to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmBd39OwvWg
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PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 3 days ago
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
There are plenty of good FOSS text editors out there. I certainly don’t want to use one that was barfed up by an AI.
axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Dave is a charlatan who think that the fact he worked on one app decades ago somehow makes him relevant in the modern day. Not to mention that he sold shitty software that tricked people into fake anti-virusnd and got hit legally for it.
hietsu@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
This needs to be pointed out more in all posts related to the guy, and in YouTube too. Scummy shit like his programs were quite common back then but the way he acts around that topic now deserves all the hate imo.
db2@lemmy.world 3 days ago
No.
NameTaken@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This is the guy that wrote Task Manager for Windows back in the day. Hes an old Microsoft Windows developer. So even if he used AI id be interested in seeing what he made.
hietsu@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
This is ALSO a guy behind many of those ”your PC is at risk” scams back in the day, selling useless optimization tools that extorted money from victims. He specifically quit Microsoft to pursue that and was even convicted later. Still chooses to downplay and try to hide what he did.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Hes a shit bag then and still is. Fuck this guy.
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 days ago
I’ve been using TextEditor.app on OSX to quickly open it and jot down something during meetings, etc. until Apple put in cloud into it and you needed to first choose the name and the path of the file where you wanted to store it.
This is when I decided to write TextEd.app which would only do what the previous app did, open a new window with a textarea and only when you wanted to save it it would ask you for the path and name. I even removed the RDT functionality and it would be just plain text without anything.anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
zerofk@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
It’s still there, but turning it off still won’t let you associate txt files with the old notepad.
Simply uninstalling the app works fine though, then it defaults to the old one.
anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Ah, I always associate my .txts with notepad++ - notepad.exe is only started from Win+R as a temporary clipboard.
zerofk@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
“I want to start with a blank slate”
There’s a setting for that.
“I don’t want tabs”
This one’s trickier: there’s only a setting to open existing files in a new window; you’ll still have tabs.
nublug@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
this is the second or third article i’ve seen where someone supposedly fixes dumb ai things by checks notes using ai to do it.
this is an ad.