Oversight VS Stats

Yup good advice! Instead of covering it physically you can use a trustworthy software solution OverSight https://objective-see.org/products/oversight.html. Source: 10 months ago

Something like https://objective-see.org/products/oversight.html proves you can detect applications that open a microphone session on macOS. Could set something up that listens to that, filters by process and toggles it on/off based on active microphone sessions. Source: about 1 year ago

You can use Oversight to do that, but I'm a little confused by the location of the dot. Which OS version are you running? Source: over 1 year ago

I am using OverSight ( https://objective-see.org/products/oversight.html ). Source: over 1 year ago

Ask your works IT admin to install OverSight which warns on camera and mic use. Source: over 1 year ago

Its not a terminal app like bottom or nvtop but I use https://github.com/exelban/stats and it has iGPU stats. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

I’ve found stats [1] to be a great open source alternative to the iStat Menus system monitor app mentioned in the article. [1] https://github.com/exelban/stats. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Have not used it for quite some time, and I think it was launching the Mac system monitor , it does don't have its own widow , but you can check this https://github.com/exelban/stats. Source: 10 months ago

Install stats and put it in your menu bar. It will show the top processes. If my battery is going down quicker than usual I check there and it is usually some hungry tab in Firefox. But I've also noticed bluetoothd using way more CPU than I would expect. Source: 11 months ago

Don't know about 'better looking', but I use https://github.com/exelban/stats. Source: 11 months ago