stats

You can just ping your CPU usage to the menu bar and monitor that. I have CPU and total system wattage up there so I always know if something weird is going on. https://github.com/exelban/stats

Try installing Vitals.app open source app to see what's going on: https://github.com/hmarr/vitals Stats is another good one too: https://github.com/exelban/stats

Another good name would have been "Barify". I use a combo of xbar [1] and Menubarx [2]. I used to have several widgets just for system stats but eventually moved to mac-stats [3] for that. [1] https://github.com/matryer/xbar [2] https://menubarx.app/ [3] https://github.com/exelban/stats

Discussion from 2021. The logic seems to have later moved to https://github.com/exelban/stats/blob/master/Kit/plugins/Tel... https://github.com/exelban/stats/issues/1310 has a newer 2023 discussion what requests are send are where. It's checking if a new version of the software exists, and what the IP address is and both features can be disabled.

This is from 2021. It is disappointing that open-source software sends stats without informing users or asking for consent. That said, the user was an abusive entitled asshole, accusing (without proof) the developer of spying on users and saying things like: > It's not your app. It's free software, you gave it away. They deserved the block. They also sent a pretty bad PR to remove the functionality, just leaving things empty and lingering. This is clearly not someone who cares to do things right, they only care about what they personally want. https://github.com/exelban/stats/pull/742/files This is the same person who tried to shove a DO_NOT_TRACK “standard” down every project’s throat and promptly gave up when maintainers questioned their motives and approach. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/6745#issuecomment-5543... https://github