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by kebman 1910 days ago
Why not. I use Chrome to make quick calculations all the time. Just Ctrl+N and 1+1, and the answer is posted. Then Ctrl+W, and/or Alt+Tab to Sublime or whatever. Then I continue with my life :)
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Razengan 1910 days ago
On macOS, Cmd+Space and just do calculations in the Spotlight search bar.
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kebman 1907 days ago
I also use Windoze, that's why I prefer the Chrome way.
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argvargc 1909 days ago
Just a heads up that everything typed into Spotlight is sent to Apple.
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retromario 1909 days ago
Do you have a source for this?
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argvargc 1909 days ago
It's in the ToS, and there was a big hoo-haa over it at the time it was introduced. Eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8473580

Aside from that, the most basic understanding of what Spotlight is reveals there is no other way for it to function other than to send the users input off-machine:

The user types in a value and results are returned related to that value, some, from online sources.

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