> 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

Redlib typically has less aggressive restrictions: https://farside.link/redlib/r/OSINT/comments/1opjjyv/i_may_h...

(Farside.link just picks a random instance)

It's also available in the official F-Droid repo: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.roguetemple.hyperroid

Archive for anyone else having issues loading the page: https://archive.today/z47RV

> Told me to make a turn at an intersection that did not allow turns.

That's an OpenStreetMap bug, the intersection likely isn't marked as not allowing turns. If you put a note (OSMAnd calls them OSM Notes) on the map someone will fix it when they can.