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I'm gonna get rid of most..as I just don't use them.

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

pretty much the only apps I use on Mac

mpv audiobook player with subs, video/audio editing, pdf editing, merging, extracting attachments

VSCodium half filesize as VSCode

Claude $200/year for coding

Skim PDF reader, add TOC to existing PDFs

Transnomino file renamer

Librewolf firefox with better privacy defaults

Stats like Activity monitor

Terminal run schell scripts

a few others but these 8 are the main time suckers

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
python@3.14 3.14.0 83M
node 24.9.0_1 82M
icu4c@77 77.1 82M
icu4c@76 76.1_2 82M
python@3.13 3.13.7 81M
open-mpi 5.0.8 81M
python@3.12 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

Librewolf / Firefox extension
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/two-tab-loader/

Finally took 4 days to approve but it's available now Two Tab Loader. It doesn't restrict one from opening any tab but the idea behind it is to just keep the two left tabs open and no more to keep memory usage down. So open 50 tabs at once and your computer won't crash.

Gone through many extensions and since Librewolf/Firefox now has fuzzy (has so many meanings) search (where you can type two words and the order of words is irrelevant) so for most people that will suffice. But if you want fuzzy searches (Click Precise or Fuzzy) and it also shows you the bookmark folder it's located in this extension does the job.

https://github.com/Fannon/search-bookmarks-history-and-tabs

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search-tabs-bookmarks-history/