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by dylan604 1064 days ago
From personal experience, most auto-fill fields will correctly find Dallas for "dal", but will quickly update to Dalles for "dall". Which is weird since "dalla" comes before "dalle" alphabetically which makes me think their "learned" use implies more people looking for Dalles type "dall".

I've been caught out by this on multiple occasions.
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rollcat 1064 days ago
Every time I want to launch Photos.app or Photo Booth.app through Spotlight, it keeps flicking between one and the other almost with every key press... then when I think it's done, and am about to press enter, it updates the top result a millisecond before I hit enter.
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katbyte 1064 days ago
I replaced spotlight with alphred and found it to be more consistent (and accurate) with suggestions
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lostlogin 1064 days ago
You could rename Photo Booth, or even better, delete it.
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rollcat 1064 days ago
Nope. System Integrity Protection.
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dylan604 1064 days ago
Last week, I helped a friend update their new to them older mac book air. I used my machine to download the most recent OS compatible with their model. Now that's completed, I tried removing the installer from my machine, only part of it will not delete because it has the restricted flag set. According to the internet, I can only delete this file by rebooting into special mode disabling SIP, delete the file, then reboot into normal mode. WTF is that bullshit? This isn't a critical installed file that's a crucial part of the OS. It's just an external file used to install an OS. Totally baffling
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lostlogin 1064 days ago
That’s hilarious. It used to be hard to track down specific versions of macOS, but if you can’t ever delete them I guess that’s solved.
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dylan604 1064 days ago
Sure, it’s hilarious as long as it’s not you. Otherwise, it’s beyond frustrating.

Not sure about the hard to track down issue. If you have a Mac and the App Store, they’re there for the downloading. Trying to download to run in a VM on windows or Linux violating license agreement then it is not mine nor Apple’s issue

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lostlogin 1064 days ago
Argh. And bypassing that is a finicky 10+ step process. And software update will restore the apps.

https://nektony.com/how-to/uninstall-default-apple-apps-on-m...

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rollcat 1064 days ago
Why would I want to bypass that? Someone's been putting crazy amount of work to make the system foolproof, only for me to play the fool?
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lostlogin 1064 days ago
Removing apps you don’t want and will never use seems like something you should be able to do on your machine.
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gymbeaux 1064 days ago
Windows 11 search too
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jlarocco 1064 days ago
It's not too weird...

If it offers up "dallas" for "dal", but the user keeps typing, then it's reasonable to assume "dallas" wasn't what they were looking for, or they'd have picked it after "dal".

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szundi 1064 days ago
I hate these autocompleters with this logic. Counterintuitive and let me not type with 1/sec just to be “helped” correctly
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ComputerGuru 1064 days ago
Or maybe they type quickly and don’t stop after each and every letter to see the autocomplete results?
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dylan604 1064 days ago
Exactly. I'm not typing D...pause...A...pause...L wait for suggested value. I'm typing dall by the time the first suggestion has had a chance to make its appearance. Then again, I'm on a real computer with a keyboard, and not some mobile device where it's impossible to type properly and forces those pauses between letters where the autocomplete might be noticeable.
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ComputerGuru 1064 days ago
I am in the same boat but experience this on mobile, too. They just slow everything down by the same factor.
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