Probably because that’s not most people’s experience. Google is just pages of the same AI generated content. DDG, once good, seems even worse. Searx and the like are slow and results are mixed. Kagi, for me at least, seems to find the actual gems you’re looking for. It feels like Google used to feel back in 05.

That’s why people shill it.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's as good as peak google (agree on ~ when that was), which felt like magic. But it is, in my experience, noticeably better than current google.

Ahhh yup, wondered how long it'd take before this happened. Sorry to sound like THAT guy, but I'm glad I deleted my account ages ago. I liked BS and it seemed good but yea, here comes Twitter 3.0

The ignorance of this post to the rest of the world is amazing.

This is why I love Sublime Text. It's so fast, it works so well. It isn't trying to be AI, it isn't trying to evolve until it can read email or issue SSL certs via ACME. It's focused on one thing and it does it extremely, extremely well.

this is why i am still on vim

Ha yes, learning vim was one of the best things I ever did. I can SSH onto a Juniper router and fix up config using vi. I still try to instill in juniors these days "Learn vim!" but everyone just wants to use nano (which I understand but nano isn't preinstalled on many network devices)

> everyone just wants to use nano (which I understand

I do not understand.

I have a very capable colleague/friend who uses nano. Unix hacker type, so I think it is what he is used to from growing up. I still find it strange, but such is the nature of preference.

Nano not powerful, but it is friendly, it shows you its keybinds.

Vim is very powerful, but also very unfriendly.

The difference in effort required to pick up Nano vs Vim is HUGE

I feel like a heathen; I'm using Neovim.

I like neovim is the main way now, so I don't feel like a heathen.

I also felt a little guilty when making the switch! Totally irrational of course, but still there's something to be said for sticking to the the original.

If you don't use emacs, you are a noob to me...

I am still on "vi"

wow that's two people, including me!

(jokes aside, if I had a choice I'd use vim/neovim, but when I ssh into a remote system that has minimal installs, vi it is)

It's named vi because when it was made in ancient Rome there were only 6 users.

hey don't be so hard on yourself, everyone makes mistakes!

it's okay, you're still one of us

Yeah that. Same here.

I'm thinking of switching to iPhone after always having and Android. All these negative posts are really making me reconsider though.

As someone who has switched from Windows to Apple recently, my God the Finder is terrible. I can't understand how people aren't flipping tables over how bad it is.

Finder has to be used with the Miller columns; otherwise, it doesn't make sense.

But since the switch to the new filesystem, it's kinda slow and annoying.

They have built some proprietary stuff around their filesystem to increase their walled garden height. Which is kind of stupid in the era of cloud computing, because you cannot use any of it if you share files/directories with other people who don't use Macs.

Because Mac OS X Finder has always been kinda terrible. There was a lot of talk about this in the early 2000s and it's just faded away since the people using macOS now probably never experienced the good old Mac OS 9 Finder.

And its Windows competition Windows Explorer has likewise gotten worse and worse each revision of Windows.

Oh... Finder is the name of the default file browser? I always thought it was the search results that popped down from the top right search area.

Last Mac I was on still had OSX on it.

Thank goodness for Dopus.

lol, directory opus? I was using that on the Amiga way back in the day. I tried it like a decade ago, but it didn't stick for me. It doesn't seem to run on Linux, and it costs $$$, so no chance I'll try it again.

I can't think of a better rationale for the ubiquitous worsening of local search than increasing ignorance of comp sci fundamentals.

There's no reason a senior at undergrad level shouldn't be able to write an efficient, fast, deterministic, precomputed search function.

... and yet, professional developers at major companies seem completely incapable.

Minimum acceptance criteria for any proposed shipping search feature should be "There is no file / object in the local system that fails to show up if you type its visible name" ffs.

I just reload the page and it works

It's this sort of thing that makes me run a home DNS server with a blocklist. It even works when I leave the house thanks to Android's PrivateDNS function, I don't need to turn on a VPN, all DNS requests even on mobile hit my AdGuardHome. I use quite a conservative DNS blocklist (oisd.nl) but it means I don't have the family complain various sites are broken.