Wandering Adventure Party

@juergen_hubert Ah, yeah,, okay. A whole world of nuance I've never considered!

@juergen_hubert Totally fair. To try to answer the value-add question, though:

I feel a nostalgia in reading folk tales in English, which isn't just about the stories but about the old-fashioned way they're expressed, and I'm guessing you feel much the same about reading old German tales.

So the value I imagine is that an equivalent old-fashioned expression might make me feel closer to how a German speaker feels when they read the same tale in German.

@juergen_hubert That's an interesting point! I sort of assumed you would try to emulate the feeling of reading an equivalent English text of the era, but what you're saying makes sense.

In case you're unaware, notepad, the stripped-back editor for plain text has been "upgraded" to notepad, which comes with AI and fucks up your quote marks with smart quotes and a bunch of other shit that literally nobody who uses notepad wants or asked for.

The hilariously fucked up bit is that notepad is still there on your machine but if you want to use notepad you have to uninstall notepad first.

All in all, not nearly as bad as I was expecting, actually. Turning off all the crap in my start menu and taskbar was surprisingly easy. I did have to uninstall copilot twice for every user (ms365 copilot and copilot), as well as onedrive and "notepad" (which still fills me with rage - seriously WHY?!)

I'm sure I'll find more privacy violations to come, but so far, apart from the lack of that one extremely basic, important, and previously universal customisation option? I don't hate it!

I seriously can't even put my taskbar vertically in Windows 11? I'm gonna hate everything about this "upgrade" aren't I?