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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 00:05:18 JST Aral Balkan

   #macOS is by no means perfect (although, y’know, close). One glaring design error is the menu bar, which doesn’t handle the – uhum ­– edge case where there are too many menu bar icons to display on screen (either because they bump up against the current app’s menu or, on the laptops, the notch… which, well, don’t get me started on the notch…)

   Anyway, so a lovely little indie app called Ice fixes the problem the way #Apple should have.

   https://icemenubar.app

   More tips: https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/mac-setup.md

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 00:12:00 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ben Ramsey

     @ramsey Yeah, I used to use Bartender but it was apparently sold off under dodgy circumstances. Given the level of permissions an app like this involves, I’d rather go with the solitary indie dev :)

     https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/06/alternatives-bartender-mac-menu-bar/

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     Ben Ramsey (ramsey@phpc.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 00:12:01 JST Ben Ramsey

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     @aral I use Bartender, but Ice looks cool. I’ll check it out.

     https://www.macbartender.com

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 00:21:24 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ben Ramsey

     @ramsey Yeah, and… https://www.applause.com … eew! :)

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     Ben Ramsey (ramsey@phpc.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 00:21:25 JST Ben Ramsey

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     @aral The original developer at least addressed it, though it’s all still very light on details. https://surteesstudios.com/a-new-chapter/

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 03:15:45 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ben Ramsey

     @ramsey Ah, k, that sounds marginally better :)

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     Ben Ramsey (ramsey@phpc.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 03:15:46 JST Ben Ramsey

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     @aral I think you mean https://applause.dev ;)