• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 hours ago

    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

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      19 hours ago

      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.

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        11 hours ago

        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.

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          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.

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          10 hours ago

          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 )