yt-dlp works with Reddit. There’s also cobalt, which is a web-based, general purpose media download tool. There are multiple instances of it that people host themselves too.

The limited daylight hours really is the worst part of it for me. It consistently takes a pretty notable hit to my mood.

It doesn’t even do that. All it does is prevent persistent data from being stored from the browsing session (so, no disk cache or browsing history).