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"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
"[Dune Sandworm]": {
"textMateRules": [
{
"scope": [
"punctuation",
"entity.other",
],
"settings": {
"foreground": "#A4B07E"
}
}
]
},
"[Dune Spice Vision]": {
"textMateRules": [
{
"scope": [
"punctuation",
"entity.other",
],
"settings": {
"foreground": "#A4B07E"
}
}
]
},
"[Dune Salusa Secundus]": {
"textMateRules": [
{
"scope": [
"punctuation",
"entity.other",
],
"settings": {
"foreground": "#A4B07E"
}
}
]
}
},
default system apps on Mac OS 15.x (Sequoia) to delete

hold down power button till see options, Utilities, Terminal
csrutil disable
csrutil authenticated-root disable
reboot

after rebooting
mkdir -p -m777 ~mount
mount


look for / (root disk) ..mine is /dev/disk3s1s6

when mounting remove the s6 (the last one)
sudo mount -o nobrowse -t apfs /dev/disk3s1 ~/mount
cd ~/mount/System/Applications/
ls

I'm gonna get rid of most..as I just don't use them.
sudo rm -rf ~/mount/System/Applications/Books.app/
forgot to get rid of Image Playground and possibly Find My
sudo bless --mount ~/mount/System/Library/CoreServices --bootefi --create-snapshot


if on Intel mac instead of holding down Power button to enter Recovery Mode holding down Cmd+r and use --folder instead of --mount
sudo bless --folder ~/mount/System/Library/CoreServices --bootefi --create-snapshot

now the apps are gone after rebooting....I suppose you could restore by just downloading from the appstore...who knows

I lost the screenshot of the apps with filesizes but the ones I deleted were around 500MB. So perhaps not so much about space but more about decluttering the system
TransnominoMathBoldUnicodeRecipes.zip
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Here are two Transnomino recipes one to encode and one to decode Math Bold Unicode. I find it annoying myself and realize why people do it to bypass youtube potential censorship but don't want them in Math Bold Unicode text cuz prevents searching for instance, etc. and wish convert to plain text.

BTW, titlecase was added to Transnomino....not perfect but really close.
Activity Monitor is better than Stats in a few things (cpu/memory app) it's 2.5x smaller memory wise and shows Virtual Memory Compressed as well as Shared Memory. Stats doesn't do that...things Stats can do is show temp of sensors and in % of cpu/mem/gpu/network in menubar. I really don't need stats anymore as prefer to monitor it with Activity Monitor. If Stats didn't shoot up to 150MB then it might be doable but hogs too much memory.
in CPU just click % GPU to monitor graphics. Memory pressure is extremely important..try not to let it get to yellow..keep it green. Free memory = Physical Memory - Memory Used (just do in your head).
Multilingual and Dialect Coverage: Supports major official languages including Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, Hindi, Greek, Turkish; as well as dialect and accent translation for Mandarin, Cantonese, Beijing, Wu, Sichuan, and Tianjin dialects.

This is great and all but Artificial (should be Superficial) Intelligence still suffers from imperfect programmers who don't know the languages. I don't think AI has advanced since 1982 when you could ask it How are you today? And it'd give some sort of answer. It's just got more data to analyze. Out of the five English sentences at least the last one was correct.

I do use artificial (fake) intelligence (never will be as smart as a cockroach's brain) for coding assistance, language translations and summarization of text but in 15 years from now, it's gonna glaringly show that trash in equals trash out. Even though it may not be so apparent at this stage to some.
added 150 color palettes today ..75 word and 75 letters ones (technically just 75 but each palette used for each one)
probably just for the kids
For advanced users on Mac OS recommend giving Pearcleaner a spin..it's open source and has many disk space saving utilities and general cleanup left over waste by products.

Here Claude is 512MB..think it was or something like that and removing Intel binaries results in massive savings. It only needs Silicon arm64 binaries to run.
du -sch $(brew --cellar)/*/* | sort -rh | awk -F'/' '/Cellar/ {printf "%-20s %s\n", $5 " " $6, $1}'


shows you filesize of homebrew packages
llvm 21.1.2 1.7G
qt 6.9.2 830M
gcc 15.2.0 444M
boost 1.89.0 378M
qt@5 5.15.17 367M
rust 1.90.0 357M
deno 2.5.3 144M
ghostscript 10.05.1 123M
[email protected] 3.14.0 83M
node 24.9.0_1 82M
icu4c@77 77.1 82M
icu4c@76 76.1_2 82M
[email protected] 3.13.7 81M
open-mpi 5.0.8 81M
[email protected] 3.12.11_1 75M
cmake 4.1.2 71M
mupdf 1.26.10 69M
git 2.51.0 60M
gtk+3 3.24.51 59M
molten-vk 1.4.0 58M
exiftool 13.36 55M
ffmpeg 8.0_1 53M
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zoocage-time-waster-array/

Can save snippets from web in ultra small sized avif images in your cache. Can search through them all. About 25 other extensions combined into this one extension. Deleted my other 3 extensions as they're all combined into this one.

Main purpose is just let it track your video and audio time so you get an idea how much time you spend wasting away on internet.

I had already written Chrome one but massively changed structure to save avif images as binary blobs rather than base64 so 33% smaller. So will have to re-write Chrome one someday and pay $5 to put on google play store.