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Re:Ask HN: Why is on-device search terrible? by bravetraveler on Thursday January 19, 2023 @09:02PM (#34448290)
Lost my ability to edit, but here's a link to Albert: https://albertlauncher.github.io/

The demonstrations there confirm searching... and way more than I can do justice here

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Re:Ask HN: Why is on-device search terrible? by abdullahkhalids on Thursday January 19, 2023 @09:22PM (#34448432)
Albert is pretty good.

I also catfish https://launchpad.net/catfish-search which is excellent. Also can search within text files.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is on-device search terrible? by yonz on Friday January 20, 2023 @10:11AM (#34454123)
Are either of you concerned about giving permissions to almost everything? I think that was why I uninstalled Albert.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is on-device search terrible? by abdullahkhalids on Saturday January 21, 2023 @12:24PM (#34468053)
I am not sure what special permissions you are talking about that Albert gets? Just like any other software, it can do whatever the user can do. As far as I understand it doesn't "phone home" or anything with my data. And doesn't really delete or move files in any way.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is on-device search terrible? by bravetraveler on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @09:50PM (#34527175)
A bit, I'll admit I haven't audited it as much as I should -- are you aware of anything in particular?

I install it through the Fedora repositories and only use the bundled extensions, so I don't worry too much about it

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