Netflix seems to provide an app for Windows Laptops to watch titles offline. Chromebooks here too. https://help.netflix.com/en/node/54816 MacOS is absent, but I'm sure it's not too far off using an Google Chromebook emulator with Google Play Store in UTM if it's a must. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Netflix on moble apps allows for downloading for offline viewing Youtube also allows for offline downloads of selected videos in selected areas on mobile. Source: over 1 year ago

Get a Kill-A-Watt, or something similar and start seeing how much power those things draw. My mini fridge uses about 400 watts per day. Rather than getting a coffee pot, get a french press and a good thermos. And instead of the tv and dvd player, can you just have a couple of tablets instead? They use far less power. Netflix lets you download stuff to watch offline or you can rip those DVDs to mp4 files and copy... Source: almost 2 years ago

Netflix, Hulu (and probably others) offer portions of their content offline. If you have the right subscription, you can download the titles you want ahead of time to your laptop, iPad, etc. & watch them later on your deployment w/out having to rely on wifi. Source: almost 2 years ago

Any streaming service has some hidden downsides, Netflix is no exception. For example, you don’t get to keep anything after watching it online, the video quality is limited by the bandwidth available to you at any given moment, and the watch process will be not that smooth if you have a poor connection. No matter what your reasons may be, many users tend to download the content from Netflix to devices for watching... Source: almost 2 years ago

Besides the usual Firefox/Chrome, Spotify, etc I use the following: - Karabiner-Elements for key remapping, specifically, for making caps lock into ctrl/esc. I don't know of anything else that does this job. Everyone who remaps keys seems to use this. - Kitty as my terminal of choice. I spend most of my time logged in remotely to a server via ssh where I attach to a tmux session. Kitty was easy enough to... - Source: Hacker News / 22 days ago

If I had to recommend 1 app/script that I use daily: https://github.com/banga/git-split-diffs) to disable things like "Apple + Q" -> nothing worse than going to close a single tab and then your whole app quits. Also able to re-map caps-lock into escape, ect `iterm2` for terminal (colored tabs are great; albeit I disable the hell out of many of the options like "clickable urls" ect) for cli, I try to gnu... - Source: Hacker News / 22 days ago

I have been using Karabiner elements (https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org), they allow keyboard customization, I have switched the colon and semicolon key, by default without pressing shift, the key will output colon (:) , I find this useful as I type lot of colon daily. Maybe you can use this software to set "<" and ">" to be the default text output without using Shift. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

In the settings of chrome remote desktop there is an option to not send modifier keys etc to the host system. I've also heard of https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/. Source: 8 months ago

Possible karbiner but I've never looked into doing specifically that, so I may be wrong https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago