The codes worked, I claimed the third one of the second set I think about three minute after they were added to the post. At that point at least six of the other codes were gone.
For those reading, this is likely in reference to Sugarbucks (Starbucks) “coffee”. Brewing at home with a pot or even an espresso machine is approx <$1 per cup.
I get picky and relatively pricey beans and distribute a French press across one giant mug and one travel mug for heat preservation. Anyway yeah it works out to about $1/vessel.
Slightly off topic, but fully related. Has anyone ever noticed that when your CPU is spiking on a Mac, simply opening Activity Monitor often brings it in check? Please tell me I haven’t fabricated this correlation! I’ve noticed it on several generations of MBA’s, with the 2020 Intel as the most recent.
I haven't noticed that, but I'd propose an alternate explanation: the amount of time it takes for you to notice a CPU spike, get annoyed by it, and launch task manager ends up being just slightly shorter than the running time of some common CPU spiking tasks.
I just keep activity monitor open all the time. I've noticed that fan speed significantly lags CPU load, so it's difficult to notice and react in time. The one that gives me the most trouble is mds_store, or the spotlight search indexing process. I disable indexing on basically the whole drive but it still spins up the fans every once in a while.
On Windows some scheduled tasks are scheduled to run whenever the system is idle, and seem to stop running when the system is being used again (e.g. by opening a task manager). Maybe the same is true on Mac.
This behavior does make one think of malware. It's frustrating when the core features of an OS thwart user monitoring and control, even if inadvertently.
On the subject of system performance on macOS… does anyone know of a decent app/tool for limiting CPU on different processes or programs?
This might be less relevant on newer hardware, but I'm interested in limiting certain apps (e.g., Dropbox, OS tools) from heating up the computer and making the fans go crazy.
nope, you’re seeing correctly - it’s a very low-functionality site that’s primary role is to open the App Store app (only works from Safari, I believe). The full images are available in the appstore.
I remember there being a great Safari extension that blocked this behavior. I wish I knew of something that could do this after Apple nuked their entire ecosystem :(
Very nice :) I just bought it, this is a lot nicer to have around than switching back to the activity monitor.. I just recently got an m1 Mac air and since it's fanless and makes no obvious outside indication that something is busy it's hard to tell what's going on.
Oh boy, you just gave me another reason to want the Mac Mini M1. I have had two previous Mac Mini's (and one is actually still operational 24/7, despite being 12 years old). Such a brilliant little machine, and much better value than say an iMac as there are tons of good screens out there. I am wondering though whether it supports dual 4k screens at 60Hz. I don't think HDMI can do that, so it would have to be DisplayPort.
Not really - even if the computer could do it on its side, my relatively new 4K Dell screen does not support the HDMI standard required to do 60Hz. It does 30Hz but then I would rather use an old CRT.
I don't know what standard your monitor supports. But hdmi 2.1 can certainly do 4k@60. And most new devices and monitors are coming with hdmi 2.1 support.
If the monitor is more than a year old it's probably using technology that is 3 years old, etc. Then it means a lot of current monitors have this issue. But it will improve, so that's good.
Wow, didn't know there was a new version — thanks! I recently booted up my 2008 iMac to get some old files, and I was reminded how much I liked MenuMeters.
I used the MenuMeters forks up until a few months ago when I purchased iStatMenus. Love it and well worth the money, especially since I can used the unified view (so my widgets don't get moved around arbitrarily by menu bar reorganization).
One thing I recently discovered is that macOS has no capacity to deal with overflow of the "menu bar widget" area.
I had rotated my 27" 5K displays to portrait mode, which I find better for coding. That made the menu bar narrower. The widgets in the menu bar on the left side just don't appear when the frontmost app's menu is too wide.
Since I use iStat Menus for this purpose, which puts (in my configuration) 6 different widgets there, and have several others as well, lots of icons were simply inaccessible.
Oh, great point! I forgot about that app, and indeed it would have saved the day.
(Ultimately, I decided I wanted at least one of my monitors landscape anyway... I realized this the first time I wanted to watch a video program, ha ha.)
Thanks! I mostly want to see CPU and wifi activity, so a menubar widget covers most of my bases. I also don't have a big multi-screen setup, so I have a stronger preference for menubar widgets than some people.
The graphs on this look really close to how the ones in iStat Menus 6 look. I love the aesthetics of this app and how it shows all the graphs, but wonder if it has the ability to show things like temperatures and powers
The default theme is meant to match the OS style, similar to the graphs in Activity Monitor.
Temperature and power stats are not allowed to be read in App Store apps, but if we get enough requests we plan to write a little helper app that you can download separately to supply that info to Pluto.
This looks nice, but I've personally found that this is something I prefer a TUI app for (specifically htop is very good). Why?
1. Because TUI apps are perfectly good for this. These kind of apps don't really need a fancy UI.
2. 90% of the time I want to use a system monitor is when my system is running slow and I need to find out why and which process I need to kill. A fancy GUI app will often take an age to load in these circumstances. Whereas somehow htop will usually still load in <1 secon d and be responsive.
Reminds me of customizing WindowMaker's dock with system monitor widgets[1]. I wonder how quickly (or if at all) the macOS dock responds to changes to an app's icon...
> If you minimized the System Monitor, the icon turned into a real time CPU graph.
On macOS Mojave, the Activity Monitor still does show real-time graph in the icon if you want it to - right-clicking the icon gives you various graphs to choose from.
Wow, I did not realize Activity Monitor did that. QuickTime Player seems to have lost its dynamic icon, though.
I've gotten to the point where I don't even use the dock anymore, it just stays hidden. Quite a long way from the good ole' days of themes.org, freshmeat.net, and spending hours customizing my desktop environment.
Same thing I was going to post! I always loved those little widgets, especially the one with the rubber ducky. They just have this whimsical feeling modern desktops are lacking
not a jab at the author but at apple. i can't even see what this app looks like and now i don't even care anymore. i know, it asked me to leave Chrome. but i don't want to.
We’ve been hearing that refrain for years. It obviously can’t be disproven, but if you’d care to put a time bound on that statement, I’d be happy to find a site where we can place a bet against it.
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