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GNOME's tracker is a CPU and privacy hog.
#!/usr/bin/bash
echo -e "\nHidden=true\n" | sudo tee --append /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-extract.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-apps.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-user-guides.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop > /dev/null
gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files crawling-interval -2 # Default: -1
gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files enable-monitors false # Default: true
tracker reset --hard
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