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I have happily used the free Stats app for a couple of years now. Hey iStat users, what makes the paid tool worth it for you?
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.
Alright, bet. Wanna make your Mac menu bar less clunky? Here’s the tea. Pop these commands in your terminal to tighten it up: defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 8 defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding -int 8 Changed your mind? No cap, just undo it with these: defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing defaults -currentHost delete -gl…
I've used Stats for years and loved it -- for CPU, GPU, memory, and network upload/download speeds. It's fantastic for catching when a bunch of processes haven't been killed and are stuck at 100%. For figuring out if my code is actually running on the GPU or not. For seeing what my network transfer rates are, when a download or transfer gets stuck, and which process is suddenly downloading hundreds of megabytes witho…
This 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.
These days i keep Little Snitch's network monitor around, which i actually do look at sometimes, though mostly to get a glance at where my traffic is going.
Reminds 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/
Looks nice. Any suggestions for a similar graphical tool for Linux?
If you're using Gnome, you could try the system-monitor-next extension[1]. The main thing to note when installing for the first time is that you'll also need to install a few system packages[2]. [1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3010/system-monitor-n... [2] https://github.com/mgalgs/gnome-shell-system-monitor-next-ap...
https://github.com/corecoding/Vitals/issues
Vitals is a GNOME Shell extension for displaying your computer's temperature, voltage, fan speed, memory usage, processor load, system resources, network speed and storage stats in your GNOME Shell's top menu bar. This is a one stop shop to monitor all of your vital sensors. Vitals uses asynchronous polling to provide a smooth user experience.Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it's my personal laptop and the screensaver is definitely native (ARM). It's probably just Apple being sloppy again.
40 GB is not simple sloppiness when it comes to a simple screensaver. I would encourage you to explore other solutions than to just blame it on some historical precedent you've experienced. However true it may be. It's just not likely given the criteria.
https://github.com/lpar/RedPill/issues/8 (the screensaver I use)
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/10/xscreensaver-6-08-out-now/ (linked from there)
Maybe I should submit a PR with this workaround.
I've used Stats for years and loved it -- for CPU, GPU, memory, and network upload/download speeds. It's fantastic for catching when a bunch of processes haven't been killed and are stuck at 100%. For figuring out if my code is actually running on the GPU or not. For seeing what my network transfer rates are, when a download or transfer gets stuck, and which process is suddenly downloading hundreds of megabytes witho…
Exactly! I've been using iStat Menus for years and I find it invaluable. I've been able to identify system-wide problems a few times already just by glancing at the graphs and going "huh, that should not be happening right now". And it's not just stuck processes, but also misbehaving processes.
I did blog about this situation over a year ago here: https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/hard-disk-leds-and-noisy-... :)
This 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.
iStat menus hit a lot harder when 8GB of RAM was a $2000 upgrade.
My first computer (a VIC-20) had 3KB of RAM. There was so little memory, that I had to write most of my software in 6502 Machine Language.