What's the deal with the apps that register themselves in the Mac menu bar uninvited?

Most already have a full-sized Dock icon with a dot underneath to indicate that they're running. Why do they have to be somewhere else? These menus are often useless:

Sorry buddies, it's either the menu bar or the Dock. You can't be in both. Good thing macOS lets you turn these little buggers off in System Settings > Menu Bar > Allow in the Menu Bar:

You know how all relationships have this sweet phase where you’re consumed by each other and don’t spot any issues in one another? A friend of mine has been in that phase with AI for way too long. There’s nothing romantic about their relationship with AI, it’s just they delegate everything to it, AI has become their entire personality.

We have a side project together with a decent number of users. Every issue, every pull request description and every pull request comment’s response is written by AI with that stupid AI way of mimicking how aCtuAl pEoPle talk. It’s hard to get through to the human part but when you manage to do so, there’s only AI on their mind. They always say “let’s ask AI” like an LLM is an oracle that is always right. There’s no more joy in our collaboration, might as well let my agent deal with their agent and let the agents talk to each other without humans involved.

They would do things they have zero knowledge about and think they’re an expert. AI is great for helping you do things you don’t know much about but being able to do anything doesn’t automatically make you an expert in such thing (I call it LLM powered Dunning-Kruger).

It’s sad to see how some people willingly give up their seats to become human vessels for an AI personality.

I'm using an M1 MacBook Air for my stuff. It's an old but still good and capable machine that has been working flawlessly for years. There's one tiny thing: I made the mistake of buying the 256 GB version.

I'm constantly running out of space because of build files, iOS and Android caches and other temporary things. This issue happens so often that DaisyDisk lives in my Dock rent-free.

Telegram is happy to tell me that I'm running out of space every time I open it:

I think it starts noticing the space issue when there's less than 4 GB available… but it's none of its business! It's none of a messenger app's business! I didn't ask it to check my disk space. I didn't ask it to interrupt what I was doing or about to do.

It's clearly not the most important app on my computer, why does it check how much space is left on my device and tell me about it all the time?

What if every other app that needs to cache media started showing pop-ups like that? It's a feature that nobody asked for and it only annoys the user when space issues happen on a constant basis.