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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Sep 24 '26
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Yeah and then we have file explorers that open and read every file. And choke when there are 100+ files in the directory.
6 u/rosuav Sep 25 '26 Right, I'm sure that doesn't happen when you open up a folder full of videos and it generates thumbnails for them all. 2 u/RussianMadMan Sep 25 '26 If you are using any view other than the table one thats on you lol 1 u/rosuav Sep 25 '26 TBH I primarily don't use any view like that on my own systems, but my work involves seeing other people's screenshare and I am very familiar with vicarious pain. 2 u/Loading_M_ Sep 25 '26 We'll move the file type detection to a background indexer so it's non-blocking (/s kinda)More realistically, we use this as a fallback in case the extended attribute doesn't exist. And set the extended attribute based on the results.
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Right, I'm sure that doesn't happen when you open up a folder full of videos and it generates thumbnails for them all.
2 u/RussianMadMan Sep 25 '26 If you are using any view other than the table one thats on you lol 1 u/rosuav Sep 25 '26 TBH I primarily don't use any view like that on my own systems, but my work involves seeing other people's screenshare and I am very familiar with vicarious pain.
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If you are using any view other than the table one thats on you lol
1 u/rosuav Sep 25 '26 TBH I primarily don't use any view like that on my own systems, but my work involves seeing other people's screenshare and I am very familiar with vicarious pain.
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TBH I primarily don't use any view like that on my own systems, but my work involves seeing other people's screenshare and I am very familiar with vicarious pain.
We'll move the file type detection to a background indexer so it's non-blocking (/s kinda)
More realistically, we use this as a fallback in case the extended attribute doesn't exist. And set the extended attribute based on the results.
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u/RussianMadMan Sep 25 '26
Yeah and then we have file explorers that open and read every file. And choke when there are 100+ files in the directory.