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Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by freehorse on Thursday January 30, 2025 @05:21PM (#42882759)
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 -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding

Then, log out and back in. Boom, you’re golden.
Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by iforgotmysocks on Thursday January 30, 2025 @06:48PM (#42883419)
This makes me cringe. No one talks like that
Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by rodgerd on Thursday January 30, 2025 @08:28PM (#42883936)
No-one you know, old person.
Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by kcplate on Friday January 31, 2025 @12:12AM (#42884881)
Simmer down there sonny boy—-we may not speak your lingo but at least our generation owns the homes we live in.
Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by clait on Friday January 31, 2025 @01:47AM (#42885203)
What? Go back to Reddit please
Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by saagarjha on Friday January 31, 2025 @05:32AM (#42886410)
That would be exactly the opposite thing to say if you want people to simmer down.
Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by SadTrombone on Friday January 31, 2025 @06:40AM (#42886717)
As someone who also owns the home I live in, "we destroyed home ownership for future generations" is not the win you think it is.
Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by 4ggr0 on Friday January 31, 2025 @07:52AM (#42887171)
> but at least our generation owns the homes we live in

what a weird thing to say. cool flex that younger people aren't able to buy houses as easily as the older generations and that the current housing market is f*cked, congrats for profiting from a broken system.

Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by kcplate on Friday January 31, 2025 @01:02PM (#42889934)
Perhaps I should have said:

“Simmer down there sonny boy, we may not speak your lingo but at least our generation can recognize obvious sarcasm”

Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by iforgotmysocks on Thursday January 30, 2025 @10:29PM (#42884474)
Using genZ/A words for sake of using them makes you unhinge and not genuine. And not being your authentic self is the least genz thing you can do

Also I am genz and calling someone old is rude

Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by michaelcampbell on Friday January 31, 2025 @10:47AM (#42888766)
No one uses footnotes in a webforum other than here either, but here we are.
Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by lukevp on Thursday January 30, 2025 @06:10PM (#42883173)
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.
Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by freehorse on Thursday January 30, 2025 @06:35PM (#42883349)
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 username.

I know this is not really the place for this sort of thing, but if some people smiled a bit I am good with that

Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by bdcravens on Thursday January 30, 2025 @07:11PM (#42883545)
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 by satvikpendem on Friday January 31, 2025 @12:06AM (#42884851)
That is because most American slang derives originally from black and LGBT culture, specifically African American Vernacular English.
Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by natebc on Thursday January 30, 2025 @06:26PM (#42883283)
It's like ZoomerGPT or something. I actually needed a smile so i appreciated it.
Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by benreesman on Thursday January 30, 2025 @06:13PM (#42883190)
It’s pretty close to this meme from like a year ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1963h4k/cs...

Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by theoreticalmal on Thursday January 30, 2025 @05:25PM (#42882793)
Ick
Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by bolognafairy on Thursday January 30, 2025 @05:44PM (#42882951)
stickin out ya notch for the rizzler
Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar by itsmemattchung on Friday January 31, 2025 @02:32AM (#42885409)
Thank you for sharing this. Presumably the item spacing with too large (by default) and as such, many of the icons would not display. This fixed it! Appreciate the suggestion