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Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

515 points · 323 comments · privacyisntdead

  1. ryandrake · · 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 · · focus · HN ↗
      What makes you call it crapware? The new spotlight search (from Siri) is amazing and super convenient.
      1. adastra22 · · focus · HN ↗
        I don’t want to make my search more ambiguous. That is the opposite of what I want.
        1. ianm218 · · focus · HN ↗
          The existing search on macOS was almost completely useless to be fair
          1. dreamcompiler · · 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 · · focus · HN ↗
              This is why I rip out spotlight on my mac and replace it with FZF
              1. a96 · · 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 · · focus · HN ↗
              Spotlight was really good on Tiger idkwym
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