What we needed was a built-in hex editor, and maybe some better tools for working with unicode that you can't just type in on whatever keyboard you have.

Instead, they turned it into WordPad, which we already have.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Its not even wordpad. It only supports markdown not rtf... it only exists so they could easily shove copilot into it.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

I get the saltiness about Copilot but this is getting ridiculous.

It got dark mode, sessions, tabs, and a Markdown viewer. How are these bad changes? How do these "only exist so they could easily shove Copilot into" them?

(btw, you can disable Copilot from Notepad with three clicks)

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

True, but IMO it makes a lot more sense to support markdown under Wordpad than Notepad since the controls and doc-style layout/rendering support is already there.

it only exists so they could easily shove copilot into it.

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

hex

Does windows power toys have one?

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

No idea. I want to say 'yes', but the last time I installed Power Toys was under Win2k.