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WHAT !!?? You have a button to copy the error message, this feature is asked since Windows XP, they took their time.
I was in a chatroom and joked about them adding “AI” to notepad. Someone in the room was like “wtf did they seriously?!” and I said “oh no, I don’t use Windows 11 but there’s no way lawl”
Someone else sent a screenshot of their fucking AI in notepad
They added AI to Paint, too.
What does it do there? Ai content aware fill like in photoshop?
Yes. Also, selecting an object in an image, or using a prompt to edit your drawing.
Oh eeeuw. That aint paint boys haha
pAIn
You can use the ai to write a notepad without ai
Yeah, Microsoft does some wild shit. Nothing they do surprises me at this point. I still remember how when the WWW was starting to get really big, some MS engineers decided to turn their web browser into the Windows file manager.
You could open the file manager, enter a URL instead of a local path, and suddenly it’s a web browser. I just thought it was a neat trick back then. It’s only in retrospect that I realise how dumb it is.
Oddly enough, the reverse isn’t bad. It makes sense to use a webbrowser to open HTML files, even if those are saved on your harddrive.
Tbh, imo its a good user feature to have. Makes accessing the internet less big and less of a hurdle for people to learn to use the net. Something that welcome/needed then.
However, from a technical standpoint its utter hell to maintain, keep safe/secure and was at that point a nono haha
( i say at that point, because now webviews are bloody everywhere )
I feel gratuitously attacked.
I have my own server running in the cloud to get my wallpapers.
Ok I think I’m the problem lol
I’d love more problems like you in this world
I use a Gnome extension to get daily wallpapers (from Bing, lol), then curate them to my liking.
I love to shit on Microsoft as much as the next lemming, but this error message is way out of context. This was a bug in the January quality update (quality lol), and has been addressed.
Windows doesn’t require you to sign into the MS store to use notepad or paint.
Source: end user compute engineer who had to deal with this shit.
Okay but why was there functionality in place for this to break in the first place? Notepad shouldn’t need the store involved at all and why are they pushing our bugs like this that should be caught in testing.
My guess? Because they fired a shitload of engineers and are having the remaining ones pick up the slack with AI vibe coding. They are pushing slop to prod and breaking shit left and right because they need to prove that destroying the world with AI data centers is worth it.
Spoiler altert: it’s not. Having well trained and talented engineers wite the code works better.
Oh good that’s much better, at first I thought they were requiring notepad to be online, but they’re just ruining the OS and world with vibe coded slop? Well that’s fine!
Because enterprise is Microslop’s real customer, and the consumer is the QA now.
Oh, I know. The point was that the comment I responded to isn’t a valid excuse.
I’m not saying it’s a valid excuse, and I’m certainly not jumping to defend Microsoft. All I’m saying is the screenshot/post is misleading.
It happened to me while trying to use the shipping tool, an hour before a presentation.
Fortunately I was able to record the screen and extract a frame as a still.
“quality update”
the suggestion that you should maybe write down an eight digit hex string “in case you need it” is just adding insult to injury. i guess anything less than a 32bit space for error codes would be insufficient
When did Right Click -> Set as Wallpaper -> Desktop involve writing code?
Yes, older versions of Linux may have had that setting buried in a config file somewhere, which required editing in a text editor. And that sort of UI was shit, is shit and will always be shit. But, if we’re going to bring up old versions of an OS, let’s talk about Windows Me.You can still do it that way anyway, if you want to. Many (many =/= the majority of) Linux users want their system to work exactly like that, and set it up such that there’s no other way. And that’s the beauty: Choice!
To change my lock screen background I still have to go into like /usr/sddm (or some such dir, I don’t remember which specifically and it’s not booted rn).
For some reason the setting in FedoraKDE for “lock screen background” will change the “lock screen background,” but only after I’ve logged in and then re-locked, on boot it still showed the Fedora default. But I wanted it on boot, too, as it’s a single user laptop anyway. To do that you have to place the file in iirc sddm’s config dir.
At least with linux though I can design my own Plymouth theme and change my splash screen, try that on windows (idk if you can or not but I’m gonna assume no since I’ve never seen anyone do it.)
That’s the funny thing. To laugh about something easy being made stupidly complex on linux, you have to go back in time some few years.
To laugh about something easy being made stupidly complex on windows… you just need to update to the last version.
No you don’t. OP just chose a bad example.
It’s not been that long since I last used Linux, but when I did, I had to type a command in the terminal to change screen brightness (kubuntu)
Was the command [Fn]+[F6]?
If only it were that simple.
To be honest, I’d have no idea how to change screen brightness in Windows at all.
I either do it with function keys on the keyboard (on a laptop), or the monitor itself (on a desktop).It’s in screen settings. But you can also use the keyboard keys and it works.
Well, it’s also worked in Plasma on every PC I used so far.
So this isn’t a case of “You need the console for everything in Linux” but rather “Something doesn’t work on your system”.
Which can happen on any OS.
if you want free operating system, try using linux instead of using pirated microslop
I still have record of my reaction when I learned Windows Media Player had paid DLC on Windows 10. I made a video about it.
I literally can not fucking wait for them to start charging microtransactions for items under the “accessories” menu, like games, or tools like the calculator and notepad. M$ has been the best advertiser for Linux this past decade, and they’re only getting better at advertising it, I know that’s coming at some point.
Buy ten “Undo’s” for just
$4.99$2.99!Just imagine separating bored office staff the world over from Solitaire, behind even a modest 99c paywall and a moderate barrier to entry like “having to install a third-party solitaire application” if they wanted it for free.
People would be calling for Nadella to be hung like Mussolini within weeks. It’s gonna be a good fun shitshow, mark my words.
There is already a subscription for no ads in solitaire IIRC…
There are ads in Windows Solitaire now? Good lord. Goes to show how long it’s been since I’ve used Windows.
Notepad++
Seriously. If you’re not using N++, you’re notepadding wrong.
I never use notepad, it wasn’t really good in the past and it looks like it hasn’t got any better
Notepad++ is a seperate program.
That’s right. I use it daily, great tool. It’s one of the first things I install after a clean windows install. Just avoid notepad, as I said.
It’s Notepad with postfix notation.
If you build makethe Win11 ISO using Rufus instead of Microsoft’s own Media Creation Tool, you have options to prevent this bullshit from happening.
I’ve been using Win11 with an offline account for years, and everything works as it should, even the MS Store. I never have to deal with Microsoft Account bullshit ever.
I mean, if you’re going that far you might as well start considering just leaving Microsoft’s bullshit OS entirely
Rufus for making the USB, and then Immediately Chris Titus Win Util it to clean up the rest of the trash.
https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
Yes, yes… Just use Linux. I know. But my career is Windows based so driving it at home keeps me dialed in.
Throw the MASSGRAVE software in there too. Afaik they’re safe and work incredibly.
Its almost as if one should try to be technically literate when using technology
Notepad was the final straw that made me switch
EditPad Lite.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Windows users. Mmm! How did it get this far, hm?
Well. See you on the other side then :D
