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Every single built-in "basic" text editor of every single distro comes with syntax highlighting, line numbers, tabs, etc.
I just want a rectangle to type text into.
Notepad is turning into what Linux text editors already are: too complicated.
Sends everything you write to Microsoft.
Soon there won't be any safe place on Windows to copy and paste some random text/password/key that I don't want to get uploaded to some cloud service, or screenshotted and "analysed".
Soon it is not safe to boot Windows unless you are prepared to exterminate all the used hardware.
So, they went from not updating in forever, to finally updating it in some meaningful ways a couple years ago, to adding crap that no one wants pretty much right away. Too much, MS. Shoulda quit while you were ahead with tabs.
They have already onboarded a scrum team on the code base. They've got to burn those points on something to argue for their payroll and the PO and the lead dev thinks AI is cool.
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For Microsoft's credit, Windows has systems in place to install your updates when you're powered by more renewables than fossil fuels [0]. [0]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-update-i...
maybe they could just make the software not be completely shit instead ? why does Windows take 2 minutes to decide what updates to install, then 45 minutes to install them when Debian on the same machine can do both in under 30 seconds?
let me tell you a story...
Soon there won't be any safe place on Windows to copy and paste some random text/password/key that I don't want to get uploaded to some cloud service, or screenshotted and "analysed".
Since Windows is closed source, you have no way of knowing that this isn't happening today.
At this point I wouldn't even bat an eye if someone tried to sell me an AI toilet that uses an image recognition model to analyze my bowel movements.
I would be surprised if Toylet-companies weren't already working on something like that.
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> The thing that is a _feature_ of a cryptocurrency is why people don't use it. People do, in fact, use them. Is it a popular payment method in western countries? No, but do some people use it? Yes, they do. For privileged people, decentralization is usually a serious flaw. For others, it's an extremely important characteristic that lets them transact at all. The world isn't black and white, and people have use cases…
> For privileged people, > You're being self-centered, and that's okay, but perhaps you should factor it into your mental model before making sweeping statements in front of a global audience. > but I don't go around proclaiming that all of AI is completely useless, and that all of its problem areas are better solved by statistics and "if" statements. > Don't mistake your own privilege, ignorance, and lack of imagina…
> For privileged people,
Privileged person is anyone living in a western country who hasn't had to deal with censorship. I consider myself to be a privileged person in that regard. That's not an attack on anyone's character.
> You're being self-centered
That's anyone who fails to consider use cases other than their own. I wasn't speaking to your character, It was a description of your reply, not your character, because it contained sweeping statements that only apply to certain groups of people.
> but I don't go around proclaiming that all of AI is completely useless, and that all of its problem areas are better solved by statistics and "if" statements.
That's not an attack on anyone?
> Don't mistake your own privilege, ignorance, and lack of imagination with the lack of real-world applications.
I've explained that privilege isn't an attack on anyone's character. As for the rest, sorry, but which words am I supposed to use when someone denies that a problem is real (which fair enough, I'll elaborate), later admits that there are other services that solve the same problem, but they still want to claim that there are no problems that the obscure product is solving, despite that product having real-world users who are using it for that exact problem?