Yeah, that would be the last time I show up to that gym. I'd feel it was my fault. and that I was bothering them.

You bother people every day with your existence. You are one more car in their traffic, 5 minutes more of waiting in their line, you got the last bagel they were craving. Being a bother to people is part of living in a society, it would be impossible to live without ever being a burden or a nuisance to anyone. I wished I had accepted this earlier in life.

The important thing is to realize that this feeling is irrational. People aren't strongly bothered that easily. Quite the contrary, extroverted people tend to be much more popular than average.

I think the issue is, you can't take photos or bring friends with you into your lucid dream, so you have nothing to share with others.

It's kinda a solo activity.

pop them on ebay. lots of other sellers selling 2nd hand ones.

SimCopter was the best game!! You could even fly around your own simcity build!

Damn, I can't reply to the girls comment, but it's back for them too :P

My app launcher loads as soon as it's triggered (4 fingers swiped in). There is a weird 5ms glitch on the zoom in animation, but otherwise it loads in within a few ms, and scrolling is smooth. I'm on a M2 MBA macOS 26.3.1

Edit, but don't take this as me saying I like the current state of macOS. There are plenty of weird edge cases I wish they'd fix, but on the whole the OS works fine for me.

For me the launcher itself loads fast, but it takes 1-2 seconds to show the icons. And when I scroll down it often times does not draw the icons fast enough.

My app launcher loads fine as well, but sometimes (a few times a week) it just doesn't find any apps at all. Or only some of them.

This is what stops me from doing it. I used to host all my own stuff, with custom setups etc etc. But you end up having no free time, or reduces it at best, and it'll break down at the least convenient time.

The last part about it breaking can of course be true, although knock on wood has not happened to me in quite some time. But I don't find myself spending all that much time on my selfhosting setup day to day. Once a week I do a backup to external storage and upgrade software and that's it most of the time. Once everything's set up it is mostly quite hands off.

That said, I also don't think selfhosting is a realistic solution for most people.

What have they done to you? You do not need to be conditioned to accept this.

Hard to believe the video when they use all AI generated clips.

It's also abused by soo many devs, just wanting there app to be seen 24/7 by the users, regardless if there app gains anything from being in the menu bar. That's why many users run out of space. Most people don't look at settings or ways to remove them (if they even give an option), so they quickly fill up the menu bar. Back in the day without a notch, people would have so many that some menu items would disappear too.

A couple of my colleagues have so many applications running at the menu bar, so they have to use Bartender to be able to have anything resembling a functional menu bar.

I understand power users, but I don't understand these users.

… on my MBP, if we discount the icons that ship with macOS, the limit is 4 items. Past that, they're hidden by the notch.

I don't get why an overflow arrow once the limit is reached is so hard here.

Or letting users decide what the order of items in the bar should be.

command-click-and-drag them to where you want 'em. don't need bartender for this

Try a corporate laptop. Every stupid thing you don’t need except to know it’s running is there, but you don’t know it’s running because they may just be hidden.

Jamf, zscaler, virus checkers, etc. need to all go to hell with this crap. I’m glad Tailscale are removing theirs.

Your experience is not everyone s experience. Are you one of their colleagues. No? Then they weren’t talking about you.

They don't have to be one of my colleagues to share their own perspective and experience. We're a rather large band of computer using people here, and it's good to share experiences and viewpoints.

Currently I have 6 extras, which is a rare number I see. My normal number is 3.

I am so glad that macOS Tahoe just lets me banish those apps to the shadow realm

I believe being able to remove these icons were possible since Leopard/Snow Leopard days.

Not the ones from apps

You might be right. It was long ago, and I was a Mac OS X newbie back then.

I do love that change. I’d deleted Bartender when it sold out, and now I’m glad that I don’t need or miss it at all.