Dave uses GPT Codex Max 5.1 in Extra High mode to generate a perfect clone of Notepad that brings back everything you missed about it
Dave is a charlatan who thinks that the fact he worked on one app decades ago somehow makes him relevant in the modern day. Not to mention that he sold shitty software that tricked people into fake anti-virus, and got hit legally for it.
This needs to be pointed out more in all posts related to the guy, and in YouTube too. Scummy shit like his programs were quite common back then but the way he acts around that topic now deserves all the hate imo.
this is the second or third article i’ve seen where someone supposedly fixes dumb ai things by checks notes using ai to do it.
this is an ad.
There are plenty of good FOSS text editors out there. I certainly don’t want to use one that was barfed up by an AI.
Just use Notepad++ instead?
No.
“I want to start with a blank slate”
There’s a setting for that.
“I don’t want tabs”
This one’s trickier: there’s only a setting to open existing files in a new window; you’ll still have tabs.
This is the guy that wrote Task Manager for Windows back in the day. Hes an old Microsoft Windows developer. So even if he used AI id be interested in seeing what he made.
This is ALSO a guy behind many of those ”your PC is at risk” scams back in the day, selling useless optimization tools that extorted money from victims. He specifically quit Microsoft to pursue that and was even convicted later. Still chooses to downplay and try to hide what he did.
Hes a shit bag then and still is. Fuck this guy.
Haven’t watched any of his videos since I learned what he was but what I’ve heard they’re all AI slop now too, like this one appears to be as well based on the description. I wish nothing but shit for this guy.
Have they removed the option to disable the alias and bring back the old notepad.exe?
It’s still there, but turning it off still won’t let you associate txt files with the old notepad.
Simply uninstalling the app works fine though, then it defaults to the old one.
Ah, I always associate my .txts with notepad++ - notepad.exe is only started from Win+R as a temporary clipboard.
I’ve been using TextEditor.app on OSX to quickly open it and jot down something during meetings, etc. until Apple put in cloud into it and you needed to first choose the name and the path of the file where you wanted to store it.
This is when I decided to write TextEd.app which would only do what the previous app did, open a new window with a textarea and only when you wanted to save it it would ask you for the path and name. I even removed the RDT functionality and it would be just plain text without anything.
