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My next toot will be drafted on a blank Libre page with no AI checking anything.
I have bad news for you. It's in your OS, there is no space safe from surveillance in Windows. That said, LibreOffice is a pretty heavy and complex application compared to notepad. I'm sure they can find a much lighter and simpler text editor to use as a replacement.
I liked notepad for it's simplicity.
Even notepad++ was way more complex than notepad ever was.
It literally just used ASCII (or similar) characters to a file. You can't open anything other than text on it, it won't allow you to attach pictures, graphs, videos or even links. You need to type out the damned URL in its entirety.
N++ is great for what it is, but notepad, aside from it's simplicity, was also great because it was everywhere.
Windows 11 started the down fall of my favorite simple text editor when they introduced..... tabs.
I hate that. I close notepad, and then open it again and.... Why is all this shit still here?!?!
Get fucked Microsoft.
A more notepad similar program instead of Libre stuff (for windows folk) https://www.editpadlite.com/en.html
If you can find the original editpad floating out on the net, it's notepad without the file size limit, ancient shareware. The pro version is pretty sweet too, one of very few pieces of software I've paid for out of pocket.
Found the original, Jan keeps it alive.
https://www.editpadclassic.com/
I lied, no download there anymore, but it probably exist somewhere.
I never really thought about just how personal Notepad is for me. Even the Notes app on my phone. I wouldn't want anyone to look through any of it. I write some embarrassing shit. Pointless backstories for my video game protagonists when they don't already have one. Drafts for important upcoming conversations. You name it. Get the fuck out of my space. Fortunately I'm still using Notepad++, but I'm sure Microsoft will slide its dick into that too, eventually.
That's how it felt when Google announced Gemini into Gmail.
A lot of my friends and family didn't understand the issue.
Google said a decade ago that gmail is like your secretary parsing through your mail to hekp out with scheduling etc., it was never to be trusted
Notepad++ is a great option if you absolutely need to be on Windows. I started using it at work because all of my colleagues were on it, now I install it on any box I have running Windows while I set them up.
The plugins are great on Notepad++ too! I use it for work, JSON Viewer makes raw jsons much easier to parse through. Compare is really nice too to compare different files and spot their differences.
Plus it's one of the only editors left that gives a single shit about your computer's resources.
Vim? Ed? Nano? Pico?
Feeling the same, and currently in process of dumbing down my tech and decoupling from major tech platforms. They really got us by the balls.
Long live open source!
Learn to use Vim. It can be anywhere and everywhere.
Vim is hell to learn (a few weeks), but the second best time investment return I've made of any skill, ever (1st was learning to walk).
Yeah, but if you're forced to use Windows, then installing and running vim is a nightmare (unless you want gvim, but I don't think anyone wants that).
Huh, I never noticed any issues when I used to use gvim (a fair few years back, mind). What's the problem with it?
Does it run this new OS? emacs? It's a great OS but doesn't have a great text editor.
with emacs evil mode, you can add a pretty good text editor to the emacs ecosystem: vim
No, no, no, you're thinking of iMacs which are Apple's all in one desktop offering. But thy can definitely run MacVim.
