HazeOver might be a bit more popular than TripMode. We know about 18 links to it since March 2021 and only 13 links to TripMode. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
> Edit: also if Apple cares so much about this, why do they make the close/minimize buttons so tiny? My guess would be that daily users graduate to ⌘W and ⌘M fairly quickly, while power users graduate to the window manager they prefer. > …I'm still slower at this specific thing on Mac OS because I always first have to make sure the right window is focused… You might find this useful:... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
A few more that I recommend: Bartender, to control visual clutter: https://www.macbartender.com/ HazeOver, to dim distracting background stuff: https://hazeover.com/ Raycast, which does a bunch of stuff (launcher, window manager, menu search, etc.): https://www.raycast.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
I really like HazeOver. It’s paid, but worth it. Source: 11 months ago
As a fellow Mac + OLED TV owner, I think you'll appreciate these too. MonitorControl to access brightness settings through your keyboard and Hazeover to darken background and prevent burn-in. Source: 12 months ago
I used to have a similar app on my Mac: https://hazeover.com . Loved it, it would be great to have something similar doe gnome! Source: 12 months ago
It occurs to me that QUIC could benefit from a single kernel-level coordinator that can be plugged for cooperation - for instance, a dynamic bandwidth-throttling implementation a la https://tripmode.ch/ for slower connections where the coordinator can look at pre-encryption QUIC headers, not just the underlying (encrypted) UDP packets. So perhaps I was hasty to say that you just need SOCK_DGRAM after all! - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
I've had this app for that bookmarked for a long time but haven't tried it. Source: 11 months ago
I use https://tripmode.ch/ for just such a thing. It works great, just whitelist the apps you want to have network access on a given hotspot and it blocks the rest. Source: over 1 year ago
Might look into TripMode, among the others mentioned here. Source: over 1 year ago
You might also be interested in TripMode. It doesn't activate low power mode but does restrict your Mac's outgoing network connections when away from home wifi, which may contribute to power saving. Source: over 1 year ago
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