Maybe you know a better way or browser or something?
I grew so annoyed with how limited it was.
Safari is fast and lean, for sure, but it's because it's not really capable of very much. I ended up sort of being forced back into using Chrome, and I came back reluctantly and not happy about it. And I deleted it and tried to use Safari for a couple months. But there are a lot of things I think are necessary to get around limiting "features" of macOS, like Hyperswitch, Default Folder X, TextExpander, Keyboard Maestro, Soundify, AudioJack, and various other things that let you do useful things that speed up workflow dramatically.Īs far as Chrome.I do know this is a resource hog. I wonder if I shouldn't post a list of helper things and see if anybody doesn't maybe know a better way than to have an app constantly running. I do like a lot of things customized, yes. yea.apptamer i think maybe only works now for one core, or something.cause it does cut it back, but "stop app completely" no longer stops it completely, which.i don't care to figure out. May i ask, too, what was the indicator that showed you that my clean my mac x ruined the system? it always worked fine and well, even, and i had just installed sketchier stuff for the last few weeks and am surprised clean my mac x is the culprit and definitely wanna learn why.
i just dont want to spend hours wasting time on Google again trying random things to get rid of eventual "other files" eating up half my disk, all of which probably do even more harm to my machine cause i dont know what im doing and there's no universal source for answers and require lots and lots of guess and check and trial and error. I find it's useful for malware, quick overview for file storage and space, uninstalling apps, controlling startup programs and launch agents, but maybe the "speed up your mac" stuff is where i got too trusting (against common sense).
what do you think? say no to "flush dns cache, free up ram?" I wonder if clean my mac x still is good but perhaps putting certain things off limits? it does a much better job at deleting apps than dragging to the trash or relying on developer supplied uninstallers (as they often don't exist).
and i dont have time to learn how to restore ideally the state of things each and every app or extensions or plug in or etc. im afraid that i do all of those things - pretty often. That's especially true if you start adding in more complex things than basic app store apps (which still leave remnants behind that pollute sometimes), like things developers might use, or animators, video editors, audio work, Virtual Machines, etc.
I feel like a clean reformat and fresh OS install once per year is sort of necessary nowadays because of that. It's just not true anymore that it takes care of itself entirely, and, unless you know all locations of all files that are silently installed, or how to find those locations, and you manually remove them yourself, AND know what's okay and not okay to delete, when, and in what order, the mac of today slowly warps (not nearly to the same degree as WinDoze though). i mean like am extremely polluted library folder(s) and application leftovers of programs i hadnt seen in years that consumed enormous space, and launch agents i couldnt find through normal means. i know macs are good at self policing themselves, but it's also quite true that there is loads and loads of junk leftover from things these days. ive used it for a year or more without issue and it helped a lot regarding leftover files. i thought we had entered a new changed era. i am aware of other apps like this.and i avoid them.