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If they really want to improve MacOS they should add synonym based search in Settings. I should not be forced to know by heart the arcane speech their marketing

If they really want to improve MacOS they should add synonym based search in Settings. I should not be forced to know by heart the arcane speech their marketing department chose to replace consecrated terms. Just today it took me 5 minutes to unearth the Speech Rate settings. It feels like using Siri and not knowing the magic words. Come on Apple, synonym matching is easy. Just use a LLM to generate synonyms to all things a user might query in settings! Use a small embedding model if you feel daring, it works fast enough. Oh, this reminds me that Azure, GCP and AWS also need AI assistants that actually know their way around instead of declining to help for anything above looking up some docs. Why can't I ask Azure in what region the still have A100 GPUs? That's what the assistant should be good at - integration with live data and ability to solve cloud problems.

t-writescode 1y ago
I filed a bug report about a specific setting, "Screen Time" that stopped showing up in Finder, and a couple-few weeks later, it returned to being findable once more. Filing bug reports about specific instances might be a useful way to help fix this?
pavel_lishin 1y ago
I would prefer if they re-organized their settings to actually be discoverable, instead of requiring search every time I need to change something. (Because, yes, I feel your pain.)
bryanrasmussen 1y ago
synonym search is also easy without an LLM
nrvn 1y ago
Synonym search is rocket science. It will take 20 years after they figure out n-gram search (i.e. “srceen time”, “cellluar”, et al.) and keyword search (“Set charge limit”) And it applies to all apple operating systems. Basic UX is not sexy nowadays.
Jackknife9 1y ago
It wasn’t so bad when it was still control centre - I had used it for at least 15 years and knew the placement of everything. Ever since it became system settings I get lost every time I open the app.

t-writescode 1y ago

I filed a bug report about a specific setting, "Screen Time" that stopped showing up in Finder, and a couple-few weeks later, it returned to being findable once more. Filing bug reports about specific instances might be a useful way to help fix this?

pavel_lishin 1y ago

I would prefer if they re-organized their settings to actually be discoverable, instead of requiring search every time I need to change something. (Because, yes, I feel your pain.)

bryanrasmussen 1y ago

synonym search is also easy without an LLM

nrvn 1y ago

Synonym search is rocket science. It will take 20 years after they figure out n-gram search (i.e. “srceen time”, “cellluar”, et al.) and keyword search (“Set charge limit”) And it applies to all apple operating systems. Basic UX is not sexy nowadays.

Jackknife9 1y ago

It wasn’t so bad when it was still control centre - I had used it for at least 15 years and knew the placement of everything. Ever since it became system settings I get lost every time I open the app.