> Is it built automatically from a scheme, each block manually, or something in between?

They don't have a relevant item in the FAQ but it sounds like they place each block manually directed by a schematic overlay

> I think I could live with all the other components being metric, if they just had a way to work with standard U.S./Imperial containers as well.

As far as I know mason jars (of that size) are the same everywhere so it should work with whatever containers decided to use that standard

> Oh, and they need a 120VAC design for the motor and all the electronics inside.

After reading the BOM it looks like the only electrical components are the limit switch, rotary switch, motor, and the support components soldered to the motor, so a 120VAC design would only need to replace those with equivalent 120VAC components.

> Or, a design that can handle both 120VAC and 240VAC, as well as both 50hz and 60hz.

AFAIK that would either be a 120VAC model with a PCB to compensate in 240VAC areas or a DC motor with PCB

Possibly interestingly, some places in the world aren't either 120v nor 240v. Japan for example is 100v.

> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Galoob_Toys,_Inc._v._Nin...., for some reason you have to manually add the period at the end of the link)

On some sites it's possible to work around this type of linkification bug by percent-encoding the last character (percent symbol followed by 2 hex digits representing the ASCII character):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Galoob_Toys,_Inc._v._Nin...

> I like the idea, but these KODI-based devices far too limited, they essentially only serve as media players for local content.

This seems to be a side effect of KODI's extreme aversion to being associated with piracy.

I wouldn't expect KODI/OSMC to provide an unofficial YT client. However, the "app" availability issue is a big one for devices like this if they are to compete with spyware-ridden Android TV boxes on one hand and Linux HTPCs on the other hand. The Android TV boxes are cheap and support all streaming platforms. The Linux HTPCs are free (as in freedom), typically far more powerful (can double as consoles/emulators) and don't restrict the user in any way.

Here's a couple archive links that may help you get around that:

https://archive.today/Ig42c (has issues with Cloudflare DNS)

https://web.archive.org/web/20251214151943/https://techne98....

I have TOR enabled in my firefox (in a container) just for that. It just seems madness for me (as a non-spaniard) that 2 links of the HN startpage are blocked for football. We are not talking the regular terrorism, abuse/illegal content whatnot. No, censorship to protect football IP.

Not too far off, apparently 5G modems on T-mobile's service can try using StarLink now

https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/satellite-phone-service

  Generated with Claude, from my book list.

Personally I think this list would be more interesting if the synopses had been written by a human

This kind of tech always gets spun as "water harvesting for deserts" but somehow it never makes it to more efficient dehumidifiers.

They talked around something like that in the article "...who envisions a practical, household system..."

That made it sound like a (practical) dehumidifier, not a (futuristic) personal water harvester.

You can use xcancel.com or farside.link's nitter redirect to avoid that, if you're on Android it's easiest to use URLcheck‡ with these chunks added to the pattern checker:

``` "Twitter to Nitter": { "regex": "^https?:\\\/\\\/(www\\.|mobile\\.)?(twitter|x)\\.com\\\/(.)", "replacement": "https:\/\/farside.link\/nitter\/$3", "enabled": "true" }, "Twitter image to Nitter": { "regex": "^https?:\\\/\\\/(pic\\.twitter|pbs\\.twimg)\\.com\\\/(.)", "replacement": "https:\/\/farside.link\/nitter\/pic\/$1", "enabled": "true" }, ``` (I haven't updated my copy of the Twitter image regex for the rename because I haven't seen any X.com image links and upstream seems dead)

‡: https://github.com/TrianguloY/URLCheck