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Re:Impressions from a first-time Mac user by AA-BA-94-2A-56 on Monday April 11, 2022 @05:21PM (#30995244)
Spotlight is a really good search tool, and it's worth occasionally letting it build its index. You mostly only notice this when you've changes a whole bunch of files or setup the computer for the first time. It really is short-term pain for long-term gain, because Spotlight is phenomenal at finding anything on the Mac in a really short amount of time.

That being said, if you're in the dev-space, I'd recommend using Raycast instead. I've dong some cool things with it, like format my commit messages, generate UUIDs, and search my bookmarks with a command (/w dev -> my company's development application with a really long URL).

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Re:Impressions from a first-time Mac user by mushyhammer on Monday April 11, 2022 @10:03PM (#30997745)
> Spotlight is a really good search tool

I loved Spotlight until I had to check out several project to my computer. Now with thousands of non-own files it’s really hard to find what I want. Even if I look for my own projects, Spotlight shows the same project as it appears in several node_modules as a dependency. Find out the right one means I have to hold alt on each item. Ludicrous.

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Re:Impressions from a first-time Mac user by smoldesu on Monday April 11, 2022 @05:58PM (#30995632)
It's not worth it if my computer heats up to 85 degrees for an hour and a half every few days. Really throws a wrench in my productivity and has already made me miss a couple meetings. Raycast looks neat, but I'm not interested in adding Yet Another Random Closed-Source Tool to my Mac. At this point I'm mostly using it as a dumb terminal and even that is testing my limits with how annoying Homebrew and the FreeBSD 4.1-ass kernel is.
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Re:Impressions from a first-time Mac user by noizejoy on Monday April 11, 2022 @08:29PM (#30997072)
> has already made me miss a couple meetings.

Congratulations on a novel permutation of “the dog ate my meeting notification” :-)

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Re:Impressions from a first-time Mac user by smoldesu on Monday April 11, 2022 @09:25PM (#30997465)
More like "my computer's CPU is pinned so high that I can't do the screenshare I promised you earlier, because I made the mistake of trying to rebase 15 minutes before I was scheduled to appear"
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