> With Recall, locating files in a large download pileup or revisiting your browser history is easy. You can give commands to Recall in natural language, eliminating the need to type precise commands.
"We suck at UX so we'll need to record everything and run on a 40+ TOPS CPU to be able to provide even the most basic functionality. Do you like this, is this good?"
@ca1ne I'm still waiting for MS to show that they can ship any kind of search in any part of Windows that isn't a disaster. I can't think of anything that has ever worked. The async Start Menu search has been an ongoing disaster for the last 15 years. The file search in Explorer has never worked. You've always had to use third-party tools to get a functioning, productive search experience for any part of Windows.
@pervognsen Yah...it's kind of funny since doing file searching or program search + execute on linux works as fast and as well as I want it to, something achievable on Windows...if they cared to. And now that they have the AI magic dust I guess they want to sprinkle it everywhere rather than...just doing the basic work. Really sad.
@dotstdy@ca1ne It's never been a technical barrier... I'm not going to take a cheap shot at PMs because the issue is bigger than any role like that but the issue is clearly related to company values, incentives and decision making rather than either design or technical competency.
@dotstdy@ca1ne Or perhaps more accurately, the design and technical competency of a company or division is much less than the sum of its parts. There's plenty of competent designers and engineers at MS who could do a great job with search if they were allowed to do it.
@pervognsen@ca1ne Right, and although I enjoy blaming PMs / executives as a convenient shorthand, one should never assume the provenance of bad decision making... :') It's akin to the gamer special of blaming the publisher for all bad decisions. nah dawg that terrible idea was 100% home grown.
@dotstdy@ca1ne@pervognsen Is there a program like everything which you can just point to a directory and it will index the contents of the files in that directory structure? Not just the names but the contents.
@dominikg@dotstdy@ca1ne Everything can search file contents but it doesn't do indexing. Personally I just use ripgrep, it's fast enough without the need for indexing. If you need indexing there's @zeux's qgrep. Although I don't think qgrep automatically keeps the index up to date. A good reason to prefer a non-index-based solution is so you don't have to worry about index maintenance.
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