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.

This makes me cringe. No one talks like that

No one uses footnotes in a webforum other than here either, but here we are.

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

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 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

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)

That is because most American slang derives originally from black and LGBT culture, specifically African American Vernacular English.

It’s pretty close to this meme from like a year ago:

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

It's like ZoomerGPT or something. I actually needed a smile so i appreciated it.

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

Ick

Yeah, it's really bad UX how icons simply don't show up if there's no room on macOS. There should at least be a spillover.

Back in the day I paid for https://www.macbartender.com/ to get these features.

You can also use Ice[1], which does the same thing and is open source

[1] https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice

Looks like the features are very similar. Is there anything the commercial product does that the open source doesn't?

I've used both, and I think Bartender was a little more polished, UI wise.

This was after I stopped using Bartender, but it got silently sold to a third party https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/04/bartender-mac-app-new-o...

Alternative: install it anyway, and block all connections with Little Snitch.

(note that Bartender is also part of SetApp...)

Ice is great. Took some fiddling but I have been stoked on it.

I would be very careful with using Bartender now. It was a great app, but recently bought by a shady company known for buying apps to milk them for money and user data. I recommend Ice, as linked by Khaine, which is open source, free, and works like a charme.

Thanks, I'm totally gonna try that!

weird, they all appeared for me

Open source and especially free open source apps probably don't care too much about the "onboarding experience".