On one hand I agree that the content of a file should guide a search. Copilot has improved lately to help me find something (standard Windows or SharePoint makes even searching for file names painful).

On the other hand, folders are still a good (and necessary) way to convey structure and meaning. Which files did I attach to that tax filing? Where can I share files related to this project?

Please, a locally run FOSS means of characterizing my thousands of photos known only as DSCN_somethingorother from some date.

Apple image search is dumb as a brick. It can't tell a tractor from a brick, and "cloud or Claude" hosts will do so and flood my email and government dossier with sales spam, indistinguishable from phishing, or sell tidbits that will get me investigated every time there's a crime involving a brick or tractor, real crime or thought crime.

I prefer not to have a parallel exploitable existence online. Rant withheld. For now.