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Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

#61
post #6

Windows doesn't have a programmable equivalent does it? Last time I messed around with this stuff I got by with an Electron app and using browser desktop notifications but I think I couldn't actually modify the taskbar/put icons somewhere.

using an Electron app for this just feels like a 30lb sledge to drive in a finishing nail.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

#63

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I swapped from stats to iStats a few years ago. I've found stats to be easier to customize and the UI is more uniform. That said, it doesn't have the weather widget, so I've kept iStats around solely for its weather functionality.

A weather widget is built-in to macOS now. System Settings > Control Center > Weather

argh!! why oh why does mine not have this??? Sequoia 15.1.1

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

#64
post #46

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.

the one I use most often is about://peformance in Firefox I used to open up Activity Monitor, but every single time my laptop fans kick on, it was the browser. with the browser performance monitor, i can see exactly which tab is being naughty. So now, I skip Activity Monitor and go straight to the source. Usually, a cmd-R on the offending tab brings it back under control. I assume some JS dev has not tested their cod…

do you mean `about:processes`?

`about://performance` doesn't work at least from my FF, but `about:performance` redirects to `about:processes`

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

#65

Interesting to see MacOS users finally get an option like this. KDE Plasma has this for the past 5+ years, you can even create little custom reporting widgets with various system information and different chart designs.

This didn't just come out, this has been available on MacOS for years.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

#66

Interesting to see MacOS users finally get an option like this. KDE Plasma has this for the past 5+ years, you can even create little custom reporting widgets with various system information and different chart designs.

I love the way KDE handles system monitor widgets, especially nowadays. It's great for people that want to make graphs with desperate sensors like plotting your CPU temp against your GPU temp or your IO speed with your network speed.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

#68

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the one I use most often is about://peformance in Firefox I used to open up Activity Monitor, but every single time my laptop fans kick on, it was the browser. with the browser performance monitor, i can see exactly which tab is being naughty. So now, I skip Activity Monitor and go straight to the source. Usually, a cmd-R on the offending tab brings it back under control. I assume some JS dev has not tested their cod…

do you mean `about:processes`? `about://performance` doesn't work at least from my FF, but `about:performance` redirects to `about:processes`

yes. about:performance

the // was just muscle memory/brain fart/oops

i never really noticed it redirected to processes.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

#69
post #45

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What’s the slang about? The OP doesn’t seem to be using any slang or colloquialisms. I thought it was funny but I don’t think I fully got the joke.

wasn’t deep or nun, lowkey just wanted to help, learned this terminal thingy here fs I have a system prompt for haiku to convert messages to genz slang. I use it to confuse friends with it sometimes and we have a laugh. I had the instructions somewhere stored and just wanted to rewrite them before posting them here because I am paranoid and did not remember if i posted them verbatim in another place with another user…

Totally off topic, but it's funny how much of "modern" slang (whatever the generation) is present in hip hop culture years before. I noticed that when "twerk" became a thing; I remembered songs about twerking from years before that.

In this case, the term "bet": I remembered hearing that for the first time in the late 1980s in a song by Fresh Prince (Will Smith): "... bet, well let's go then..." (As We Go, 1988)

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

#70
post #6

Windows doesn't have a programmable equivalent does it? Last time I messed around with this stuff I got by with an Electron app and using browser desktop notifications but I think I couldn't actually modify the taskbar/put icons somewhere.

I don't know about programmable, but hwInfo used to be pretty popular on Windows for monitoring temps/hd/CPU/etc.

https://www.hwinfo.com

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