Since I haven’t seen these mentioned yet:

Clipcascade (clipboard sharing across multiple OSes, handy when “copy from this VM and paste to that VM gets funky with the intermediary rdp client)

Infisical (self hosted secrets management, used for n8n automation pulls so I’m not storing credentials and api keys on a VPS)

Plus a Debian 13 VM for Claude+Hermes and a Fedora workstation VM to pretend I have a central workstation somewhere.

Jfc… I had no idea

Cheers… and I’m sorry for the pathetic question, but why the hell wouldn’t these companies think of this? It seems like such a basic obvious no-brainer to me, again, not knowing the technical details.

Yep, and add the OS itself spying with an unremovable universal ID, by a company who proactively reports on you, and wtf moments really turn surreal.

Right!? I’ll be the first to admit I don’t understand context, windows, or whatever the limit is, but I can’t understand how these large language models have probably exabytes worth of data hoovered up from all over but they can’t remember what I told it either a minute ago or in another chat. I’ve taken to trying to get it to write markdown files to help its own memory, but I don’t know if those are counting against me for context or whatever either.

Not to pile on, but my real grape is the nanny nature of some of these, especially nannythropic. I can’t tell of our times they told me outright that “I won’t do XYZ. This is a hard limit you can’t get around it.” And I’m sitting here like dude you just created that test record to verify the piping you can’t go back through and delete it because it’s a record delete? Le sigh…

Great point… i’m no expert in software development or user experience or whatever but it just seems obvious to stop adding friction in all forms including your notepad example. And of course the ads for OneDrive and suggestions on the start menu, etc…

The tough part to me is that it seems Microsoft is thinking they’re the hero by doing common sense stuff solving (part of) a pain they’ve introduced in the first place.

Anyway, I’m windows free after moving my gaming pc to cachy and couldn’t be happier.

Great. How about stop spying on us first?