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Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?

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Re: Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?

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Post by 1718627440 »

josephg wrote: post #78
1718627440 wrote: post #26

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> Never in the past decade have I thought to myself, "gawrsh, I wonder where this file is on my laptop hard drive." I do, but 80% of the time I'm able to locate it by opening the directory where I would put it. And 10% it's in the "other" directory. And since I have the shell history, in the remaining case it is still a simple search.

I search for stuff all the time. But full disk search just never seems to solve the problems I have. Whatever keyword I’m looking for will inevitably show up in thousands of unrelated header files, Python files and JavaScript files in various node_modules directories and whatnot. Search in finder (or spotlight) is always way too noisy to actually do what I want it to do. Spending hours of cpu time to build that a use…

The typical find oneliner to do a fulltext search invokes sed. sed supports regular expressions, so you can do quite a bit more than just a simple text match. And you can also invoke various filter chains on the results.

Re: Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?

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Post by hu3 »

thisislife2 wrote: post #88
hu3 wrote: post #86

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And I can tell Windows search to not index some directories. Like node_module with a million small files I don't want to search in anyway except with grep. Perhaps if macs let you configure Spotlight to ignore some directories you could tell it to ignore the entire disk? Which would disable it in practical terms.

Not a fan of Spotlight here too. But, you certainly can instruct Spotlight to ignore some directory or drive through System Preferences > Spotlight and selecting the Privacy tab in it which allows you to add the directory or drive that you want Spotlight to not index.

great to know thanks

Re: Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?

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Post by jama211 »

clickety_clack wrote: post #95
fizwidget wrote: post #70

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It opens the door to tech-illiterate users being tricked into disabling security features, doesn’t it? Not saying I agree with it but I imagine that’s the motivation.

That's like saying houses shouldn't have doors in case the unwary are tricked into letting thieves into their homes.

No, it’s not.

Re: Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?

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Post by jama211 »

duped wrote: post #43
jama211 wrote: post #38

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You’re very entitled to your opinion, but it should be fairly obvious why this isn’t reasonable from their perspective. Put another way, let’s just say I think apple is glad you’re not making decisions about how their operating system should work. It’s an OS built for users, not those who wish to have iron control over everything. Allowing that would be disastrous for most users just to appease the very small percent…

How is allowing the user the power to disable software on the device they own "disastrous" for anyone

Same reason we don’t let people set their banking password to “password”.

Re: Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?

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Post by jama211 »

jasonvorhe wrote: post #62
jama211 wrote: post #38

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You’re very entitled to your opinion, but it should be fairly obvious why this isn’t reasonable from their perspective. Put another way, let’s just say I think apple is glad you’re not making decisions about how their operating system should work. It’s an OS built for users, not those who wish to have iron control over everything. Allowing that would be disastrous for most users just to appease the very small percent…

You had full root for more than a decade on any macOS machine.

We also used to use wep encryption on wifi networks

Re: Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?

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Post by jama211 »

wpm wrote: post #99
jama211 wrote: post #38

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You’re very entitled to your opinion, but it should be fairly obvious why this isn’t reasonable from their perspective. Put another way, let’s just say I think apple is glad you’re not making decisions about how their operating system should work. It’s an OS built for users, not those who wish to have iron control over everything. Allowing that would be disastrous for most users just to appease the very small percent…

What is the attack chain enabled by letting me disable the com.apple.mediaanalysisd job?

Show me where I said there was one? You’re raising this in bad faith.

Re: Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?

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Post by wpm »

jama211 wrote: post #116
wpm wrote: post #99

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What is the attack chain enabled by letting me disable the com.apple.mediaanalysisd job?

Show me where I said there was one? You’re raising this in bad faith.

You're the one concern trolling over security.

Re: Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?

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Post by jama211 »

wpm wrote: post #117
jama211 wrote: post #116

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Show me where I said there was one? You’re raising this in bad faith.

You're the one concern trolling over security.

Oh, so first you put words in my mouth, and now the moment you get called out on it you accuse _me_ of trolling? Get a grip son.
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