Microblog Memes

"convenient" ≠ "best option" or even "easiest option".

Linux is inconvenient because they would have to go out of their way to switch to it. Windows is convenient because it's right there and ready to go on essentially any computer.

And people dont care about "best" or "easiest" options because to most people a computer is just a means to an end.

Sadly most people grow up using and are tought Windows from the first time they touch a computer so its quirks and workarounds of bugs are engrained in the users mind.

Uprooting their entire (current) knowlegebase is inconvenient.. but it's still for the greater good of their privacy and in my opinion effectiveness of whatever they do.

All of the Copilot features in Notepad require manual interaction. When you click the button, there's a menu with options like "Rewrite", "Summarize", "Make shorter", "Make longer", etc., which either operate on the current selection or the entire document. How exactly that's implemented is obviously speculation, but most likely it will only send your data to Microsoft when you actually activate one of these functions. In fact, none of them even work without an active Copilot Plus subscription (I've tried). There is no free tier here, if try to use any of these features without a subscription, you'll just get prompted to sign up for one.

Also, the entire thing can be easily turned off from the settings panel.

Gotta scoop all the data from everywhere on your machine, even the temporary notes you don't save.

The new moto is “keep giving me money stupid”

How wasting billions on AI accomplishes that goal, I don’t know but I’m sticking with FOSS apps and platforms just to be safe

Figuratively

I use the free version, it's ok. Not as user friendly of feature packed as gmail. I think they renamed to just "tuta".

I find the web interface and android app are a bit limited - I think you need to pay to get decent searching and autofilter/rules and so on. If stuff is important you need to stick a tag or a folder on it fairly soon othewise it might become hard to find.

Option for encryption, but I rarely use that because I don't trust recipients to understand why they should care.

~~Based . . . can't use that word~~ Located in Germany so believe what you like about GDPR and privacy laws and stuff like that.

Overall I'm happy with it. It's fine for just doing your basic sbemail stuff. It hasn't been good enough to convince me to go for paid version, so I can't say about the paid features.

I'm gradually immersing myself in Linux until my Macbook loses macOS support, at which point I'll go full time on Asahi, having learned the ropes from Mint on my old Mac mini.

There are still some things that send me scuttling back to macOS, glad that Preview exists with its easy to operate editing and PDF viewing. But I'll learn to make that stuff second nature in Linux. Eventually.