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Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by blacksmith_tb » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 9:59 PM UTC

herrkanin wrote: post #2

I've been for many years a happily paying customer of iStat Menus [1], from which this seem to be the heavily inspired of. [1] https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

I paid for it, and paid for one upgrade, but stats looks like it covers all of what I am interested in.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by ElijahLynn » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 10:00 PM UTC

I brew installed but it didn't come up in my menubar. Just restarted my Mac and now I see it. I'm too lazy to make a PR to update the docs though right now.

Edit: I just see the battery widget not any of the other ones. This is a confusing onboarding experience.

Edit2: ah, they were all hidden because of Macs crap UX on menubar space. No indication there are more menu item. What a poor design decision Mac.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by maattdd » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 10:05 PM UTC

karianna wrote: post #3

I’m being lazy (am an iStats user), has anyone here compared the two?

I switched from iStats to stats like 1 year ago. I found it more responsive (and free). I'm using Vetero for the weather functionality.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by ithkuil » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 10:08 PM UTC

TMWNN wrote: post #4

For me Stats replaced MenuMeters, which has not been updated lately.

Menumeters still works for me on the latest MacOS (actually it's some fork of menumeters)

What does this have that menumeters hasn't?

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by imagetic » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 10:16 PM UTC

herrkanin wrote: post #2

I've been for many years a happily paying customer of iStat Menus [1], from which this seem to be the heavily inspired of. [1] https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

I've lost count of how many years I've owned a Bjango license. Amazing software.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by evanjrowley » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 10:16 PM UTC

I had a neat program like this for Windows in the early 2000s. Got it from a Microsoft engineer who unfortunately I lost contact with. It must have been the lightest-weight resource monitor program to have ever existed for Windows NT, 2000, CE, and XP. Basically it took the Task Manager's resource meters, displayed them transparently, and set them on the upper-right corner of the screen.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by hombre_fatal » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 10:17 PM UTC

ElijahLynn wrote: post #12

I brew installed but it didn't come up in my menubar. Just restarted my Mac and now I see it. I'm too lazy to make a PR to update the docs though right now. Edit: I just see the battery widget not any of the other ones. This is a confusing onboarding experience. Edit2: ah, they were all hidden because of Macs crap UX on menubar space. No indication there are more menu item. What a poor design decision Mac.

Yeah, it's really bad UX how icons simply don't show up if there's no room on macOS. There should at least be a spillover.

Back in the day I paid for https://www.macbartender.com/ to get these features.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by tcdent » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 10:17 PM UTC

I like that I was able to style these with a super minimal theme in my menu bar that gives me a glance at what my system is up to and if it's outside normal parameters.

Have been using this for about a year now without issue.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by sammcgrail » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 10:18 PM UTC

grishka wrote: post #8

Heh, I installed this and immediately found out that "LegacyScreenSaver" has leaked 40 GB of memory.

are you on a work laptop? A lot of times they have screensavers for intel arch, and apple silicon might have something to do with this problem

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by sammcgrail » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 10:18 PM UTC

Can it beat istat?