Probably because you can’t even properly `ls` system directories without it.

Because it is useless without?

lol, is this serious? The final straw with Mac for me was when I accidentally hit “No” when asked if I wanted to give my terminal access to the file system. All of a sudden I was starting my work day without a working terminal. Obviously there was a solution, probably an easy one, but I didn’t even look for it.

What would you do in the terminal without it?

I'm not sure letting a webapp access your home is a good idea. You're basically YOLOing random remote code to run on your machine. Maybe we can have it access some specific folder for its own data.

And then there's also Apple which won't allow functional web apps, lest it affects their app store 30% cut.

Comparing to DOS or what? No one runs Win10/11 on FAT now, while NTFS has access permissions and ACLs.

What does that even mean? NTFS file access permissions (35 years old at this point) are far more powerful than 1970s-era Unix permissions model.

What we used to have, 15 years ago, was a really well functioning google. You could be lazy with your queries and still find what you wanted in the first two or three hits. Sometimes it was eerily accurate and figuring out what you were actually searching for. Modern google is just not there even with AI answers which is supposed to be infinitely better at natural language processing.

Don’t the LLMs get their information from these random websites? They don’t know what is good and what is malware. Most of the time when I get an AI answer with a command in it, there is a reference to a random reddit post, or something similar.

Yesterday I was debugging why on Windows, my Wifi would randomly disconnect every couple hours (whereas it worked on Linux). Claude decided it was a driver issue, and proceeded to download a driver update off a completely random website and told me to execute it.

My point is, this is not solved by AI answers.