It's almost like proprietary software is built to maximize shareholder profits above user friendliness

Notepad++ is just, a top tier app

TBH, tech companies showing AI down our throats is still no good, open-source alternative existing or not.
- DRM wasn't good either, tech companies are just really creative at making their products worse.

People are allowed to want what they're comfortable with to not be riddled with llms

On the subject of Foss and AI - one of the G summer of code projects is about integrating an AI voice platform into Neochat and I'm somewhere between bemused and amused by the lack of reaction from de KDE/Plasma community

I would be happy if more and normal people were actually mad at ai.
- I would be happy with more nuanced takes on AI.
  Instead of just "All AI is worse than the devil and is killing babies" or "All AI is the pinnacle of humanity and is the next step in our evolution".
  LLMs have a place, but it is not in every product imaginable.
  
  When someone can produce an LLM that doesn't use more power than entire small nations to spew out bullshit, then we can start inviting nuance. Unfortunately, we have to be pragmatic here; and the consequences of lots of GenAI are way worse than returning to no GenAI.
  Obviously, this doesn't include pattern recognition or protein folding AI.
  
  Fingers crossed it'll end up like crypto. Here to stay in the world of finance, no longer in every product that never needed it.
- Normal people are losing themselves in AI. I’ve seen multiple instances of people using LLM to fact check someone. Endless “uhh, but I asked ChatGPT and it said blablabla” making me lose faith in humanity.
  
  I don’t keep the kind of company that goes “well chatGPT says” if I’m being honest. Though I imagine that’s more of a “yet” statement.
  
  Yeah it's become impossible to have philosophical discussions, although this truly does seem limited to the virtual world (i.e. via text, online, etc.). If I were to go have some drinks with a friend and they busted out some LLM to take part in our discussion I would chastise them endlessly for it.
  
  Honestly its not much different from a google search and reading some nonsense written by someone who has no authority in the subject. As long as it reinforces their belief itll be true in their eyes

I'm chill with the amount of ai duckduckgo has, because its not in your face and it can be easily disabled.
- Yeah but duckduckgo has loads of adds now, too
  
  last I checked you can disable that? or has that changed?

Sometimes you're in the feelings phase, not the solutions phase.
- Underrated comment

My dude, you can be mad at AI and use a FOSS alternative - best of both worlds
- Unpopular opinion, but it's also fine to hate having AI being added to a tried and true industry standard. FOSS is great, and I use many FOSS programs, but it's often a decade behind in features, compatibility, & stability.
  
  Example I always give is GiMP. Great team, great software, but also 10 years behind photoshop. Great for hobbyists and slightly above but professionals simply can’t use it as a daily driver.
- Yea, not everything is a binary choice.
  
  This is Lemmy, which is a byproduct of Reddit, and both of them have generally devolved into worlds of black and white only, although here tends to at least still have some nuance.
  
  Yeah, but some things are. It’s like, things are either a binary choice or they’re not. Whoa 🤯
  
  What people really want is to not have to change anything - neither about their lives, nor about themselves.
  They want to live in a perpetual 2005 where Windows is forever usable and still just an operating system. Where they feel happy and comfortable in their environment and their skills and abilities.
  And I get that, because I feel it too.
  But sometimes you have to change yourself, in order to change your world.
  
  When it comes to computing, technically everything is a binary choice.
  
  I wanted to disagree with you. But I also wanted a sandwich.
  
  u might even say its a nonbinary choice laugh track
  
  Have you met end users before?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znG1SKGeDj8
- Or you can use AI and FOSS - optimization of both worlds!
  
  I don't want hallucinations and lies in my open source
  
  AI is for lying to investors that your company is going to turn a profit in a few years. FOSS projects don't need that.

It's all fun and games until ai is mad at you

Next version of npp should reference this comic.

Why are the robots making art? Why are the humans packing the boxes?…
- Because hardware is more difficult to develop than software.
- Exactly, we should focus on the highest paid jobs first! Automate the bankers and executives!
- Because development of mechanical devices does not hype investors nearly as much
  
  in a society that values the worker an invention that relieves work would be lauded.
  capitalist society doesn't value the worker, it values the product.
  as fas as capitalism is concerned people are just inefficient machines with annoying things like "rights" and "feelings"
  
  Put googly eyes on the robot and name it Steve. Tell investors it's intelligent. Tell them you can have sex with it. You'll have so much money.
- MO: Make high cost human low cost human

Wait who doesn't already use Notepad++? It's even part of the standard install image at my job, and we have MS365 accounts already
- Me because I use Sublime Text
  
  I use nvim, btw
- Son, I was using Emacs before Notepad++ even existed.
- Real talk. I'm beyond an amateur, mainly doing super simple scripts for low power sbc's to output an I or 0, and even during my ~1hour learning process every video uses np++.

Some FOSS software has been adding gen-AI to itself recently, particularly where it requires you to get an API key from Gemini, OpenAI or Claude.
- I don’t mind that they can do it so long as it serves those users who want that feature.

You could replace the reactor core of a small nuclear plant with Lemmy users hearing the letters "AI".
- "We've been using this reactor to power the AI, but the more we use it the weaker it becomes!"
- It's one thing to think AI is poor quality in some tasks, but some users act like AI is personally assaulting them every morning as they wake up for work and pissing in their coffee.
  
  Generative AI in different forms is more than just a poor quality tool. Image generators are being used to create fair pornography of real people. People are replacing actual mental health techniques with ChatGPT reaffirming every single one of their internal biases and making their problems worse. Employers are using metric shit tons of natural resources to generate "no you can't take the day off" emails, and people are generating AI summaries of AI generated presentations and saying they've learned something.
  And if the human impact doesn't appeal to you, all the financial capital being poured into NVidia and OpenAI and all of this other rubbish could be solving real problems.
- hearing the letters “AI”.
  I'm fuming!!
- I like ai, but only when its doing something actually helpful, not making 'art'

I was going to suggest Zed but it has Ai as well now
- They don't shove it in your face though, they just offer a possibility of integrating AI through external services.
  
  A button for AI in Notepad as seen in the image doesn’t seem like shoving in your face either

You can do VSCode, which is FOSS, contains integrated AI, and you can even complain about Micro$oft at the same time as a bonus!
- VSCodium
  
  Kate
  Microsoft is attacking the forks
  
  Still got the AI, but at least no Microsoft telemetry.
- VSCode isn't foss (like Chrome)
  
  In fact to add to this, VSCode downloaded binary from microsoft is not at all FOSS. I use VSCodium which doesn't push AI

Modern computing is a steaming pile of other horse's horseshit in my living room
- Not if you use linux. I'm happier than ever about my computing.

What if the open source software is forcing people to see AI?
- Fork!
  
  Fork people who come up with it right in the hand.
- Comment it out
- Bold of you to assume it hasn't been bought, sued or destroyed by MS, Amazon, Google or Meta by that time.
- That's the neat thing about open source: you can change it!
  It's like the difference between renting and owning. When you rent, you can't really do much. If you own, if you don't like the wall color, paint it! Or tear it down, or DON'T replace the carpets! Or take a hammer and put holes in the wall to see what's inside.
  And, because it's digital, you can make a million copies or delete them! It's like a holodeck! You do what you want. It serves you!

A more credible response would be
But FOSS is Malware! Everyone can see what I do tif I use it.
- The FOSS understander has entered the chat
  
  If you would actually turn on your last 2 Braincells, you would understand that this joke came from my own experience recommending foss software to people.

What are good Notepad++ alternatives that run natively on Linux?
- I'd say Kate
  
  Kate is great. I even use it on Windows instead of n++
- You won't find a 100% replacement because npp has a bunch of very specific plugins, but often those plugins would be unnecessary on Linux because you already have other utilities that perform those jobs. You don't need a plugin to ssh into a server to edit files when you've got sshfs for example.
  Anyway you can use Geany on Gnome or Kate on KDE.
- There are better text editors. Swearing by that one is kind of a joke.
- Kate is grate
  
  While regular Notepad is badd.
- Depends on what you want to do. I'm a dirty vim user and use nvim in the terminal. There are a lot of text editors though.
- A must-be joke: vim
  And seriously, Sublime
- If its the ui you are looking for there is notepadqq
- I use Zed Editor on a daily basis even though they push AI in it (it's purely opt-in, thankfully)
  For alternative software, I usually ask AlternativeTo : https://alternativeto.net/software/notepad-plus-plus/?platform=linux&license=opensource
  Edit: Some people seem to disagree and I'd like to know if it's related to Zed, AI in Zed or AlternativeTo, thanks in advance!
- Geany
- VSCodium
  Or just run the exe under wine. It's foss so i'm not sure why it's never been ported.
  
  Notepad++'s performance is one of the main reasons I run it under Wine despite the filesystem annoyances. VSCodium is not not nearly as responsive.

i’m still mad at np++ for the version that supported the french media outlet that was an attack victim. not for that but for sneaking in an auto-typing text tab that looked SO MUCH like a virus especially since it was not in the original release notes.
- Yeah the dev is notorious for sneaking in irrelevant political virtue signaling bullshit. I get that they want to do good to the world, but there are so many ways to do that without alienating your users. For example, partnering up with a charity. You know. Like VIM does.