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1. ryandrake · 1791149394 · focus · HN ↗

   Reminds me of all the de-crufting you've always needed to do when you install Windows. Looks like we've gotten to the point on macOS too, where you need to run third party scripts on a new OS installation to gain back control of your system resources and remove unwanted crapware.

   1. azinman2 · 1791149858 · focus · HN ↗

      What makes you call it crapware? The new spotlight search (from Siri) is amazing and super convenient.

      1. adastra22 · 1791150062 · focus · HN ↗

         I don’t want to make my search more ambiguous. That is the opposite of what I want.

         1. ianm218 · 1791152066 · focus · HN ↗

            The existing search on macOS was almost completely useless to be fair

            1. dreamcompiler · 1791153720 · focus · HN ↗

               Spotlight search has sucked from Day 1 of OSX. You need to use Find Any File [0] or some equivalent tool if you want to search the actual file system without being limited by Spotlight's never-properly-updated "index."

               The functionality of Find Any File was built in to Mac OS 9 and earlier. It was rock-solid reliable. So of course Apple removed it and now to get reliable search you have to use a third-party tool. Or 'find' in the Terminal.

               [0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;findanyfile.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;findanyfile.app&#x2F;

               1. appletrotter · 1791156172 · focus · HN ↗

                  This is why I rip out spotlight on my mac and replace it with FZF

                  1. a96 · 1791183039 · focus · HN ↗

                     Would you have a guide? Particularly on the rip out part. Fzf is no nice unless you trigger it on a dir too big (e.g. your entire home).
               2. alexgoodhart · 1791164213 · focus · HN ↗

                  Spotlight was really good on Tiger idkwym
      2. lynndotpy · 1791150697 · focus · HN ↗

         The new spotlight search replaced what I previously used, made it function worse for what I used it for, and uses 30GiB of already very scarce disk space.

         For many users, it is a strict downgrade that was forced on them against their consent.

         1. empthought · 1791154936 · focus · HN ↗

            How was it &quot;against their consent?&quot; The Siri AI &#x2F; Apple Intelligence feature required a user to explicitly enable it. It didn&#x27;t just get enabled for you.

            I know this because I just explicitly enabled it, and now I have the new Spotlight search. I didn&#x27;t have it before I enabled it.

            1. appletrotter · 1791156108 · focus · HN ↗

               I never asked for it, I had to disable it
            2. lynndotpy · 1791161842 · focus · HN ↗

               No, this is downloaded and installed upon installation of MacOS 27. The 30 GiB of &quot;Apple Intelligence&quot; is sitting on my disk against my consent. I&#x27;ve even taken pains to do all of the hacks (save for the novel one in this repo) to disable Siri AI.
      3. therein · 1791150775 · focus · HN ↗

         Can it now consistently find things in &#x2F;Applications when I type the full name?

         That&#x27;s revolutionary.

         1. trollbridge · 1791152385 · focus · HN ↗

            No.

            I made my own “pseudo spotlight” and mapped it to ⌘-Space specifically for this. It just goes against old fashioned locate&#x2F;updatedb, but with a very quick check against &#x2F;Applications first + running the search query through bc and if it’s valid syntax, showing the math result.

         2. azinman2 · 1791159973 · focus · HN ↗

            You’re missing the entire new world of personal context retrieval.
      4. cryptolobster · 1791155500 · focus · HN ↗

         Just because something is convenient or necessary for you, it doesn&#x27;t mean it is convenient or necessary for everyone

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