u/Any_Construction_992

What were the most infamous words that you had difficulty learning to type quickly?

Is this story of cursing AI agents during coding really normal? Every now and then break a hate keyboard of theirs too. Appreciate any help.

It's been almost a year since I started practicing typing with my ten fingers. Previously, I made an average of 110wpm with the 8 fingers. Now with ten, I can't get past 80. I'm extremely frustrated and sad. And the worst, I can't go back to the eight fingers, my brain can't anymore. I don't know what to do anymore, typing quickly is very important to me. Oh, my language is Portuguese (Brazilian), so it's even more difficult because it's a language with many accents (~, ^, ', `).

I practice an average of 1 hour a day.

It's been almost a year since I started practicing typing with my ten fingers. Previously, I made an average of 110wpm with the 8 fingers. Now with ten, I can't get past 80. I'm extremely frustrated and sad. And the worst, I can't go back to the eight fingers, my brain can't anymore. I don't know what to do anymore, typing quickly is very important to me. Oh, my language is Portuguese (Brazilian), so it's even more difficult because it's a language with many accents (~, ^, ', `).

I practice an average of 1 hour a day.

For those who can't stand to look at that bastard green Dropbox tick in the Finder. Finally the definitive solution:

The green badges are not coming from the Assets.car file inside garcon.appex. I tried removing/editing that first, but Finder kept showing the checkmarks.

The actual Finder badge comes from Dropbox’s File Provider decoration called AvailableOffline. That decoration points to the type com.getdropbox.dropbox.decorations.green-check, which uses the glyph named DropboxBadgeSolidGreenCheck.

The working fix was to modify Dropbox’s main asset catalog at:

/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/Assets.car

and replace the DropboxBadgeSolidGreenCheck images with fully transparent images.

After replacing that asset, I had to clear macOS IconServices caches and re-register the Dropbox plugins. These were the commands I used:

find "$HOME/Library/Caches" -maxdepth 1 -name 'com.apple.iconservices*' -exec rm -rf {} +

sudo find /Library/Caches -maxdepth 1 -name 'com.apple.iconservices*' -exec rm -rf {} +

killall iconservicesagent 2>/dev/null || true

killall lsd 2>/dev/null || true

killall Finder 2>/dev/null || true

pluginkit -a /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/PlugIns/DropboxFileProvider.appex

pluginkit -a /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/PlugIns/garcon.appex

Important clarification: this does not replace the green checkmark with another visible “offline” icon. Internally, Dropbox still reports the AvailableOffline decoration, but the glyph used by that decoration is now transparent. So Finder receives the Dropbox File Provider state, but there is no visible badge artwork to draw.

The result is that Dropbox files and folders appear clean in Finder, with no green checkmarks at all. Visually, it looks more like iCloud Drive when there is no visible status badge.

You're welcome.

For those who can't stand to look at that bastard green Dropbox tick in the Finder. Finally the definitive solution:

The green badges are not coming from the Assets.car file inside garcon.appex. I tried removing/editing that first, but Finder kept showing the checkmarks.

The actual Finder badge comes from Dropbox’s File Provider decoration called AvailableOffline. That decoration points to the type com.getdropbox.dropbox.decorations.green-check, which uses the glyph named DropboxBadgeSolidGreenCheck.

The working fix was to modify Dropbox’s main asset catalog at:

/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/Assets.car

and replace the DropboxBadgeSolidGreenCheck images with fully transparent images.

After replacing that asset, I had to clear macOS IconServices caches and re-register the Dropbox plugins. These were the commands I used:

find "$HOME/Library/Caches" -maxdepth 1 -name 'com.apple.iconservices*' -exec rm -rf {} +

sudo find /Library/Caches -maxdepth 1 -name 'com.apple.iconservices*' -exec rm -rf {} +

killall iconservicesagent 2>/dev/null || true

killall lsd 2>/dev/null || true

killall Finder 2>/dev/null || true

pluginkit -a /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/PlugIns/DropboxFileProvider.appex

pluginkit -a /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/PlugIns/garcon.appex

Important clarification: this does not replace the green checkmark with another visible “offline” icon. Internally, Dropbox still reports the AvailableOffline decoration, but the glyph used by that decoration is now transparent. So Finder receives the Dropbox File Provider state, but there is no visible badge artwork to draw.

The result is that Dropbox files and folders appear clean in Finder, with no green checkmarks at all. Visually, it looks more like iCloud Drive when there is no visible status badge.

You're welcome.