I'm pretty sure notepad.exe is actually below the kernel. Its load bearing.
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I can confirm it's not. One cool feature Windows does have is Windows sandbox, which lets you instantly start a blank Windows VM with no persistence. I was playing around with it yesterday and discovered it doesn't include notepad in the guest OS!
I'll bet the hypervisor for that VM is notepad based /j
still kinda pissed they got rid of edit.com after win7....
They brought it back (well, a modern version) in Win 11.
It's available for Linux too!
Recently revived my old gaming PC, decided to put Bazzite on it. Was a bit surprised to see that sudoedit had a menubar and everything, used to it being vim or something. Got even more surprised when I found out it was made by fucking Microsoft. Yuck.
is notepad.exe still around? I was sure they had replaced it with a new Microsoft Store app with copilot and ads.
yes, and i think you can open it with win+r notepad
Yes, but they made it dumber.
Notepad++ is in my opinion. It just should be at the side in mid air supporting a big lever under cmd
Obligatory XKCD:
Didn't they fix that in a more recent build? I could've sworn I'd read that it was rebuilt in... Not react
Glad I'll never have to experience that
Literally everything you do is going to spike CPU usage it's called having an efficient CPU that can idle for microseconds.
And ya'll bitch about systemd 🫤
To be fair, systemd is like the Windows 11 of Linux software.
You are thinking of snap
Hardly. It does what it needs to then a bit too much more but in my experience all the pieces at least fit together and I've never had any instability from systemd.
we're gonna put copilot in EVERYTHING! it'll be great
bill arrives for the compute
we're gonna take copilot out of EVERYTHING it'll be uh
Lol. Work is currrently trying to cram Copilot into critical business processes despite it being incapable of doing very basic things.
However, it has shed light on the fact that we have people in management who dont understand the fundamentals of how our business operates. Not that anything will be done about it.
have they tried replacing management with copilot?
I mean with some of the managers I hear about, it couldn't be worse than the current situation....
I've always said that most middle management can be replaced by LLMs. And not even the more expensive models. Gemini flash would probably do about as good of a job as most middle managers.
Of course an LLM couldn't do the job of a really good middle manager. But most middle management is basically doing basically what LLMs do, and hallucinate and get things wrong just as often.
We taught the AI to speak like a middle manager and thought that meant the AI was sentient, instead of realizing that the middle managers aren't
It's horrifying, but I can’t look away…
File explorer should be way bigger.
And with spiderwebs of connecting lines tying it to pretty much every block both above and below it.
missing level 0 = electricity.
That tree reads like “build an apple orchard to discover gravity”.
What game is this from?
Not 100% sure, but I think civilization 6
thanks :)
Goog's image search agrees with you: "The image shows a section of the Atomic Era technology tree from Sid Meier's Civilization VI". One thing AI is good for.
Can you make the copilot icon 7 times bigger and have it pulsate?
Like a giant throbbing ...artery
I miss taskmanager. Should be right on top win32
About cmd: if you trace back things like right-click > print, it's usually a switcheroo between 7 registry keys and 5 directories that ends in some.dll /arg.
Yeah, Context Menus just work like that.
Not sure what the Apple logo is doing there, though Macs did have Boot Camp until the Apple Silicon models.
*1400 patches in one month
They seriously banned "microslop" on the official Discord?
Part 2: ReactOS stack
I love these type of memes XD
I love that nothing actually uses the drivers