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?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 15 Apr 15:12
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IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Apr 16:11
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I never understood this one. What kind of course would you be doing that required very expensive paid software, but you didn’t know ahead of time that said software was required. I think the imaginary OP is just an idiot.
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.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 16 Apr 04:40
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Works fine every time I’ve used it in Windows, but I do mostly live in Linux now, so your mileage may vary.
All I use paint for is like drawing red underlines under text in screen grabs and shit like that. The most ‘pro’ feature I ever use is when I sometimes misclick the rounded rectangle tool instead of the rectangle tool and I’m too lazy to fix it. I’ll give that a shot tho, thanks.
Fijxu@programming.dev
on 15 Apr 15:58
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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
on 15 Apr 16:42
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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
on 15 Apr 22:26
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Notepad++ has a plugin that makes it the default even for things that would normally be go to Notepad.
Nobody's forcing you to use it. I didn't even know it was there until this article pointed it out, and when I tried it in Notepad it turned out to need an Office 365 subscription that I don't have. So by default I can't use it even if I want to use it.
I wasn’t making a comment regarding forcing, I was sharing an anecdote how Microsoft themselves are offering free workarounds for features they want to get paid for.
“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
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 16:05
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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.
11111one11111@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 16:19
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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.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 15 Apr 16:45
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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!
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.
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.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Apr 19:43
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When you start adding bloat to notepad you know withea doubt you’ve really jumped the shark. Get fucked Microsoft
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 15 Apr 20:29
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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?
GIMP isn’t that hard to use for basics.
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I never understood this one. What kind of course would you be doing that required very expensive paid software, but you didn’t know ahead of time that said software was required. I think the imaginary OP is just an idiot.
I personally think that’s the point. It just mocks the Linux Fanboys.
Lol this resonates with me as a disorganized person
4chan greentext is mostly fanfic, always has been
It reads to me more as joke than something that tries to sell itself as a true story
This one always gets a chuckle out of me.
Glad I made you happy!
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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.
Works fine every time I’ve used it in Windows, but I do mostly live in Linux now, so your mileage may vary.
Huh. I barely used it when I was on linux, so… shrug
I’ve been using it off and on for over twenty years and it’s never needed more than running the installer to get it working on Windows in that time…
PaintDotNet is what I used to use on windows. It was a great upgrade without being too complex.
PaintDotNet is perfect if you only need some commonly used “pro” features. It’s a relatively easy transition from paint.
All I use paint for is like drawing red underlines under text in screen grabs and shit like that. The most ‘pro’ feature I ever use is when I sometimes misclick the rounded rectangle tool instead of the rectangle tool and I’m too lazy to fix it. I’ll give that a shot tho, thanks.
Check out greenshot. Has a built-in editor that’s great for quick stuff like this
Haven’t seen these two paint alternatives mentioned yet:
I think Inkscape is brought up less often because of its focus on vector graphics, which can be confusing to people new to it.
Yeah I’ve only used Inkscape a little bit but I would not categorize it as a program that can quickly be picked up
I’m using pinta. When I type “paint” in my xfce search bar, it already brings it up automatically.
Those are nice tools but they don’t replace paint, they’re way more complex.
Tux Paint
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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
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?
Notepad++ has a plugin that makes it the default even for things that would normally be go to Notepad.
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.
Nobody's forcing you to use it. I didn't even know it was there until this article pointed it out, and when I tried it in Notepad it turned out to need an Office 365 subscription that I don't have. So by default I can't use it even if I want to use it.
You can use the feature for free by using Microsoft’s Copilot chat bot, making the subscription requirement even more stupid.
Again, that's not forcing anything. That's even less so - you have to deliberately go to an AI application in that case.
I wasn’t making a comment regarding forcing, I was sharing an anecdote how Microsoft themselves are offering free workarounds for features they want to get paid for.
“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
🤣🤣🤣
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.
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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.
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!
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.
Paint has two AI models depending on your hardware, whether you have a “Copilot Plus” PC or not.
When you start adding bloat to notepad you know withea doubt you’ve really jumped the shark. Get fucked Microsoft
archive?
You know you can just copy the URL and prepend it with “archive.xx/” right?
couldn’t you just link it (archive.is)
Sure, I could
And that AI is not free either. They bundled it with the Office update
Switched to Linux Mint at home, quit my Windows developer job, and having a great time. I’ll never go back.
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.