This is why I uninstalled Notepad.

They are convinced it needs to be a worse vscode when all I want is something to edit plain text files.

What I want in windows is Notepad++ or Kate (and even Kate is a bit much). That's the full extent of the features that I'd want in something like notepad.

Adding RTF and a wysiwyg markdown editor is the last thing that I want from something like notepad. When I open notepad, I still want to see the characters that are present. Heck, I'd like to be able to see the difference between a space and a tab. I'd want to be able to see which type of line ending are being used (and switch to the correct one, \n) Hiding characters is antithetical to the reason I'd use notepad in the first place.

I want to be able to search text and see text. Not compose a document or talk to an LLM.

> Kate

So install Kate? There's a Windows build.

Oh I've ditched windows or I would go grab Kate (I use it on my linux box). I'm just commenting on how even if you were to enrich the features of notepad, the direction to take it is towards a kate editor and not towards an wordpad editor.

And it can be easily installed with chocolatey, like:

choco install kate

Consequences come later friendo.

I personally love the idea that they think people are so desperate to logon to facebook or tik tok that they will use some government vpn to access advertising laden slop.

The books were likely in the training data, I don't know that it's that impressive.

I heard the other day that every time someone claps another vibe coded project embeds the api keys in the webpage.

I wonder if this will continue to be the case.

Also, it is my experience that exec and boards favour safe and well known B2B partners over in house. It's a more publicly defensible approach that gives them an out if things go wrong and shareholders get upset.

All they need to do now is slap AI on it and they'll have bags of cash delivered to their door.

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I recently started a new role and have to use Windows for work.

I am seriously thinking of looking for another role because it is such a HOG.

I'm in the same boat, have to use Windows at work. In addition to whatver MS is doing, every workstation is encumbered with various EDR and antivirus software.

Throw in some docker workloads and it's a party.

It not pattern matching, it’s literally two things happening at the same time… in a business… that strictly budgets everything…

It’s not a pattern it’s a plan.

You forgot to mention the case where the US economy craters because of political missteps leading to Google and Apple being distracted leaving it open for Chinese or other models to surge ahead.