because it’s too late at that point, which is the whole point and issue!
A PR is when the discussion is supposed to happen. It's an open source project, nothing happens "too late" to discuss. You see that change in the pull request, you can start moaning about it.
if the field is necessary, but the data is useless, then it shouldn’t be there
Who defines what's "useless"? You? On what authority?
So, how about we start freaking out when someone starts making these fields required, instead of right away?
However, once this field exists, it enables later reference and/or mandatory dependencies
Yeah, this is a devious plan that has been going on for years, when they added the realName field!
Mate, it's an optional field on your local OS. If a paedo has access to this, it also means they have access to everything else, so there are plenty other opportunities for them to check whether or not they're interested in you.
This is nonsense. Do you feel like having a "user name" field brings "real ID one step closer"? Just don't fill that field or enter some bogus data - nobody is checking this.
You could try connecting an external keyboard/mouse to your main computer.
As for the backup one - how much space do you have left? You'd need between 4 and 6 GB to download a Linux ISO and around 2 MB for Rufus with which you'd build a bootable "live USB".
If you don't have even that much, grab WinDirStat to check what exactly is taking up so much space - maybe you can remove some of it.
Weird. I was just setting up three Linux laptops and was asked if I wanted to turn these features on every time.
Weird. I was just setting up three Linux laptops and was asked if I wanted to turn these features on every time.
Holy shit, people really lose any rationality when it comes to AI, don't they?
Mozilla mentioned integrating AI, got flak for it, reversed gears. Everything is optional and opt-in now.
And yet, a third of comments here are crying about Big Bad Firefox AI coming to eat them at night.
It's not on by default.
Does it still have the option to only show text raw and uninterpeted? I absolutely would not want it to, like, show bold instead of bold
.md files.Let's try from a different angle: which functionalities of Notepad have been lost?
Mostly from Lemmy
Yeah, Lemmy is weird, especially the tech-related communities for some reason. It's like: "if it's not Linux and FOSS, it's literal cancer, unless it's Microsoft's, then it's literal radioactive and aggressive cancer".
I can totally understand the anti-AI fellows and their sentiment “Windows = AI”.
100% agreed. However, as with any other opinion, fundamentalism is bad, m'kay. I get why people are tired of AI (I'm in the same boat!) but there has to be rationality involved.
As far as I read, it’s partially true.
That's just ordinary standard click-bait from a tech site. They themselves mention that the rollout will be "to beta users", that means Insiders. Insider builds are very different from regular builds and many features are force-enabled in them.
Which makes sense: if you're making the very conscious decision of signing up to Windows Insider, after going through the warnings about the nature of the program, you should know full well about what it comes with.
I was reinstalling my wife's Windows recently and was asked if I want to enable Recall, with a very prominent "the feature is in preview" on the screen.
Not true, however, in cases when the PC was set up by someone other than you, e.g. in workplaces. If the company someone works to decides to enable Recall “to improve productivity”, anything done by the employee will be seen, not just by the employer, but by Microsoft too, not to mention hackers who will love to get their hands at this golden goose of private data.
Oof, there's a bit to unpack here.
Maybe. But the presence of the button, alongside the shortcuts for features “summarizing”, “auto-formatting text” and other AI-driven features, implies Copilot is a whole dependency on .dll/.exe related to Copilot, as well as potential unintended network comm with Microsoft servers.
Those features - to my knowledge - only work on the devices with the NPU, which is to say: they run locally. I haven't really looked into it, though. Either way: they are fully optional and dormant until the user clicks them.
Whenever I hear about how “users are dumb”, I can’t help but wonder how the so-called “dumb users” are allowed and able to drive a half-tonne car at 120kph
Check any news source for the road accident numbers. You start to see a trend now?
or, even worse, (it doesn’t even need a license) voting (allowed responsibility over everyone’s lives)!
Did you not notice who won in the US last year?
Maybe it’s because iThings aren’t socially pushed as Microsoft things are
How do you mean? The only difference I can think of is that Apple users are generally more enthusiastic towards Apple products than MS users. That being said, we've seen countless times that whatever Apple does is called "revolutionary", whereas when MS does, people don't care. First touch-screen phones: Microsoft. Best digital assistant: Microsoft. Best optimised mobile OS: Microsoft. Etc., etc.
And we've already seen that recently with Recall - Microsoft announced it, and people lost their shit, talking about how dangerous that is, how security is 100% compromised right now, and how everybody has to switch to MacOS or Linux.
Then, two weeks later, Apple announced it's identical but less secure version of Recall, and there was nothing overtly negative in the media about it. Some sceptical articles here and there.
Non-consensual relationship. Harassment. In this case, it’s software harassment disguised as dark patterns such as opt-off when it should be opt-in.
That's, unfortunately, not how it works. I agree that dark patters suck and people who use them should be banned from making any executive decisions regarding software ever, but most of the time when people are complaining about dark patterns these days, it's completely benign shit.
Like, come on, a button showing up with a new feature is now a "dark pattern"? Let's be real here.
Don't take this as an attack against yourself, but holy shit, where are you getting your news from? Do people seriously believe that everything is AI in Windows now?
Recall is not yet live (it's available as a preview feature), you have to enable it manually, and even then you can disable it easily.
Copilot barely does anything. They're basically shoving the button wherever they can to goad people into using it, but that's mostly it.
"Purging" the OS from "AI-related crap" would purge it from AI-related crap and not break anything (source: did this on my previous work laptop)
Also, “can be easily turned off” implies something that comes enabled by default
It's a button. If you click the button, a Copilot interface loads with the file you're editing pre-loaded as context. Unless you click it, it does nothing other than taking up space. You can disable the button from the Settings.
I agree about all the opt-out/opt-in stuff, but also understand why a company catering to 80% of the market defaults to opt-out - users are dumb, they have no clue how to explore features, so opt-in features remain forever disabled for 99% of them.
And then Apple does an update with an identical feature enabled by default, and everybody goes "damn, if only Microsoft thought of this!"
I don't understand what "crime" you mean.
Kwrite supports Markdown just fine, actually better than Notepad (it does syntax colouring and formatting as you type), although I'm not sure if it can display the formatted file.
The junk being: tab support, dark mode, sessions, and Markdown support. Oh, the horror!
RTF requires special software, whereas you can easily read Markdown in a console. It's superior in every way.
That makes no sense even if you ignore the fact that Copilot can be easily disabled in Notepad, and it doesn't directly load with the app (as in: doesn't slow down startup or anything like that).
Notepad works just as it always had, it just has dark theme, tabs, sessions, and a Markdown viewer now.
Disable the Copilot logo with three clicks.
(Don't get me wrong - I hate that they shoved a fucking LLM front-end into Notepad, but let's not be silly and pretend like it's all shit now. It still does the exact same job it always did)
Why hasn't the discussion started when
realNamewas introduced?Someone may find these data points useful, for whatever reason. No point in being angry at a date field, mate.