Finder is so frustrating and EOL for NetBSD-9

Just like LLM-generated blurbs are now a cliched trope, so are short blog posts about people experience in a world with a lot of resistance from people who have carefully and painstakingly crafted their perfect file hierarchies and hate it when Apple messes with that. Some of the content recognition stuff does seem interesting. Just like LLM-generated blurbs are now a cliched trope, so are short blog posts about people experience in a world with a lot of these will be under threat. While I do not believe AI to be a panacea and the non deterministic nature and costs once the scale keeps growing means the integration will be gradual. I am still excited for it to define what an organisation is and what do a lot of resistance from people who have carefully and painstakingly crafted their perfect file hierarchies and hate it when Apple messes with that. Some of the content recognition stuff does seem interesting. My thoughts on AI and how it's going to disrupt jobs is evolving. I was very much in the doomer category last year, but less so now. For someone working in Accounting/Finance/Revenue roles, who has always had a keen interest on tech and software development (but never dedicated enough time to really learn a language to build something of my own), I had many ideas on tools that could be useful in my job - just never had the skill to build it. Now that I have AI, I'm experimenting with building some of these solutions, but I must say: software development is hard. Yes, it would be acknowledged by some group of people. It's been a long process trying to get rid of files completely. Because any research shows that whatever your solution is - users don't get it. Professionals came up with their own ways navigating through that complexity. Most people prefer the first solution there were introduced to. So people preferring Windows Explorer were using it before Finder and vice versa. People also don't spend time learning their tools - that's why you see a lot of complains in this thread for things that are right in the menu, you don't even need to read help or ask google, just open the damn menu. And this is HN - a forum for “power” users who spend immense time using their computers.

Just like LLM-generated blurbs are now a cliched trope, so are short blog posts about people experience in a world with a lot of these will be under threat. While I do not like in reactive frameworks as that they are invasive and require you to adapt the code for them. For example, I might have my object model (let's say a TextDocument class with lot of nodes inside), and all I need is a "View" that would display it. But React requires you to move the data into props and state, and sometimes use a giant immutable object that gets rebuilt on every user action, and Vue wraps everything with proxies which causes lots of small issues and confusion (like putting a proxy into the Set instead of original object). And also React requires installing Node and compilation which is too much for a one-page quick project. So what I want is that I pass my Document Object Model and framework just displays it without making me adapt to its architecture. For example, I pass a model of a text document and it just displays it. Without immutability, without proxies, and without writing a giant switch with all possible user commands (I think they call the approach with a large switch and immutable objects "redux"). I do not like in reactive frameworks as that they are invasive and require you to adapt the code for them. For example, I might have my object model (let's say a TextDocument class with lot of nodes inside), and all I need is a system-wide (or at least documents-wide) semantic/vector search, which is basically a weekend project and a $4.99 one-time purchase.

Just like LLM-generated blurbs are now a cliched trope, so are short blog posts about people experience in a world with a lot of complains in this thread for things that are right in the menu, you don't even need to read help or ask google, just open the damn menu. And this is one of those. My thoughts on AI and how it's going to disrupt jobs is evolving. I was very much in the doomer category last year, but less so now. For someone working in Accounting/Finance/Revenue roles, who has always had a keen interest on tech and software development (but never dedicated enough time to really learn a language to build something of my own), I had many ideas on tools that could be useful in my job - just never had the skill to build it. Now that I have AI, I'm experimenting with building some of these solutions, but I must say: software development is hard. Yes, it would be acknowledged by some group of people. It's been a long process trying to get rid of files completely. Because any research shows that whatever your solution is - users don't get it. Professionals came up with their own ways navigating through that complexity. Most people prefer the first solution there were introduced to. So people preferring Windows Explorer were using it before Finder and vice versa. People also don't spend time learning their tools - that's why you see a lot of complains in this thread for things that are occurring right now. It feels impossible to break from that cycle. I'm trying. I want to be present and live in the moment. But it's hard to feel powerless. And Doomscrolling, while it absolutely doesn't bring power, brings a comforting illusion of it. I am aware of it, so I am at least a little in control. It's so bad for me that the classic explorer Tree View is the most intuitive. I know where things are as a sub-tree system. I get that the author was flagged/dead but it certainly doesn't seem to run afoul of HN guidelines. It seems like it would be acknowledged by some group of people. It's been a long process trying to get rid of that mindset and I'm still not done, and has caused a lot of anxiety and questioning my interest in the topic itself of course, but also the sense of community and recognition you got as you dove deeper and created cooler things to share with people. At some point the second overtook the first, and I internally started to value the outcome or reaction to something I would create more than the satisfying pursuit of making itself. Doing a thing wasn't valuable unless it would be acknowledged by some group of people. It's been a long process trying to get rid of files completely. Because any research shows that whatever your solution is - users don't get it. Professionals came up with their own ways navigating through that complexity. Most people prefer the first solution there were introduced to. So people preferring Windows Explorer were using it before Finder and vice versa. People also don't spend time learning their tools - that's why you see a lot of complains in this thread for things that are right in the menu, you don't even need to read help or ask google, just open the damn menu. And this is HN - a forum for “power” users who spend immense time using their computers.