> version of explorer that's so fast

https://filepilot.tech/

$250 for a version with updates past a year? yikes

For a lifetime license incl updates forever that seems quite reasonable to me. It's a bit over a year of Netflix.

In fact, given that it includes perpetual priority support (within a business day!) I expect the author's gonna change that soon, once he gets one of those infinitely demanding customers and realizes what a terrible mistake he made (inf support for a one-time payment, oops!). So better bite while it's hot!

The €40 option for one year of updates is a lot more economical and is still a perpetual license for the software itself.

Now I'm shocked by the cost of Netflix.

The monthly subscriptions always sound cheaper than they are

Don't forget the old sales technique, £3.99 < £4.00. What a bargain!!!

Imagine paying for a file browser. This is why windows will always win. They have the most docile userbase ever. They'd rather pay 250 bucks for a file picker than to change OS.

If you use software that is $10k/year and Windows only, a few bucks here and there to improve your quality of life is a rounding error

I wonder if a lot of Windows users are also BMW drivers. If they're willing to shrug off $250 a year to be able to copy files efficiently on their computers, they are likely also to applaud the wonders of $50 a month for heated seats.

> BMW drivers

£50 for a heated seat, perhaps, but you also get by far one of the best turbocharged inline-6 engines ever put in a 4-door saloon, the S58. Analogous to Windows NT, a well-engineered kernel.

$250 (currently $200) is a single perpetual license. Annually it's $40/yr.

It's easy to lose a few minutes each day to Explorer shenanigans. For people making real money that adds up fast.

Hey Total Commander is free/shareware (if you can live with the nag screen) and superior to anything on any OS

My solution to the nag screen was that I never turned off my computer, just put it to sleep, so Total Commander was always running.

Interestingly, TC was one of the few software that I considered paying for, but in the end I didn't because they asked for too much information at the time. Not long later I switched to Linux, and I couldn't use TC there.

This is more of a macOS thing.

Windows users just don't pay and keep using Explorer.

Double Commander is open source and no cost.

some folks about to make a decent amount of money if the trend wrt win11 continues

> $250 for a version with updates past a year? yikes It cannot handle CJK encodings too. what a joke

I've tried this a few times. Windows 10. Downloaded the 2MB file, double-clicked on it, and nothing happens. Same thing when I tried it a few months again. Put it in a command prompt and no output of an error.

I'm starting to worry I just launched something malicious.

The latter is normal on windows. Executables have a header flag which specifies they either use the terminal or not. If a terminal program is opened from outside a terminal, it opens a terminal window. If a nonterminal program is opened from a terminal, it instantly detaches.

After downloading, did you open its properties and "unblock" it?

woa!!

This is a bad idea. We used a software that did this for a while, and everybody scheduled meetings 30 minutes longer than necessary and specified the real time in the description, just to avoid cutting people off mid sentence.

Roborock is 900 MB just to control a robot vacuum

Logi Options+ is 500 MB to configure a few extra buttons on a keyboard or mouse. Back in the days things like these were a few kilobytes(!) control panel extension.

That only works if those colleagues care about what you think of them

Some sites can be very simple and yet quite useful. For example https://rawdiary.com/ always impresses me with its speed.

One of them has that “scrambled visual keyboard” for an 8-digit password, and at the same time proposes a passkey as an alternative on desktop. Go figure.

Also datalist is nice but most the time we need a “select” (so users can’t submit anything not in the list), but select doesn’t have search/filtering like datalist has.

Technically native selects do have a very rudimentary form of filtering: start typing text with the select focused and it will auto-select the first matching option.

E.g. if the select is a list of US states, type "N" and it will jump to Nebraska. Continue into "New" and you'll get New Hampshire, etc.

This is better than nothing (and I personally use it all the time) but not a patch on an actual proper select-with-filtering which, yes, you still need JS to implement properly.

In my experience it’s been the case for years. I’ve been paying for Kagi instead to solve this.

For what it’s worth, I think there’s space for such an app for Duckdb databases. It’s growing in popularity and not very widely supported yet.

Well I never heard of it before so I appreciate it