it phones home, make sure to disable its internet connection using Lulu or something.
Checking for updates is not the same as "phoning home".
It also comes with telemetry, but you can disable it.
Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is a menu bar app not a substitute for the systray?
Because programs can not register an icon to minimize the apps to the menubar app while providing core functionality and info via a context menu and tooltips, at least AFAIK.
Spotify can do that, so apparently it's an option even though not very common.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
argh!! why oh why does mine not have this??? Sequoia 15.1.1
It comes with Sequoia 15.2. I am still on 15.1.1 too as I have been waiting for a 15.2.1 for bug fixes, but they released 15.3 instead.
of course it is.
thanks. now i'm wondering why it hasn't been pestering me to upgrade. i just went and looked, and now it sees the upgrade possible. i must have told it later and promptly forgot about it
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#94This looks like a clone of iStat Menus which I had installed for years and years till one day I realized I basically never look at it and the icons were just taking up space in my menu bar. I finally un-installed it. The activity monitor in my dock set to show CPU is sufficient for my needs.
It is indeed a clone of iStat Menus. But a very good one, which I discovered when I got tired of paying for the yearly upgrade to iStat.
I was finally persuaded to subscribe to Setapp. I had already paid for licenses to most of the software on Setapp, but as I have more and more of them roll into a “free” upgrade, I definitely think it’s worthwhile.
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#95what's the advantage of this over something like btop?
This is glanceable from (and permanently resident in) the status bar and isn’t a TUI app. Although one may not see those as advantages…
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#96This looks like a clone of iStat Menus which I had installed for years and years till one day I realized I basically never look at it and the icons were just taking up space in my menu bar. I finally un-installed it. The activity monitor in my dock set to show CPU is sufficient for my needs.
I found iStatsMenu also destabilized my system. I’d get random kernel panics, while it was running.
It may have been just one of the display modules, as I didn’t use the default set, but I never felt like tracking it down, so I uninstalled it.
Every now and then, I try reinstalling it, but it still crashes the system. Not a big deal. Just eye candy.
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#97Cool. I used to pay for iStat Menus, but one day I got a new laptop and couldn't figure out how to download the old version I had bought a license for. IMO it's essential to see cpu / mem / network consumption at all times and, on top of that, the top 5 apps consuming each one of them. It should be a default feature of computing devices by now, but it's so far from that which only benefits bad actors (resource hogs,…
> IMO it's essential to see cpu / mem / network consumption at all times
Why?
Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar
#98Cool. I used to pay for iStat Menus, but one day I got a new laptop and couldn't figure out how to download the old version I had bought a license for. IMO it's essential to see cpu / mem / network consumption at all times and, on top of that, the top 5 apps consuming each one of them. It should be a default feature of computing devices by now, but it's so far from that which only benefits bad actors (resource hogs,…
> IMO it's essential to see cpu / mem / network consumption at all times Why?
At minimum, to just develop a sense of how the computer loads and de-loads as various services or programs are called
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#99Reminds of MenuMeters - really great at showing real-time metrics and various types of graphs with different refresh intervals. https://member.ipmu.jp/yuji.tachikawa/MenuMetersElCapitan/
Aww yeah, I’ve been rocking menu meters for almost a decade now. I can’t believe people get by without a bandwidth meter at least, so helpful for so many reasons
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#100Could you please it put it in the store? Or add to brew?