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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Breaking Taps

The Thought Emporium

Technology Connections

The first two are people doing things at home that shouldn't be possible without a uni lab.

Connections does really thorough deep dives into every day tech we use.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ilmango, airforceproud95, project farm, cutting edge engineering australia, ave, welker farms, millenial farmer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Requesting mayday!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I think this thread is the first one to get my save button.

On topic, if you're into gardening (or just wanna watch something different) check out Hoocho. A guy building hydroponic systems and growing stuff. Great channel. Also no weed if that's the first thing that comes to mind from hydroponics.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Moon Channel, a lawyer who dives into some of the legal topics surrounding the gaming industry, most of them Nintendo related. Really well researched information about emulation legality, modding, even copyright infringement Nintendo themselves committed in the 90's (in the Mother 3 video), all sorts of stuff.

He also has a few other things, like a REALLY LONG video on JRPGs, or commentary on MMOs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I was going to suggest the older "All Gas No Brakes" or "Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan" but looks like there's been some controversy around him and no more videos since then.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Mathologer makes great math videos that should be understandable even by people with no higher math education.

[–] dream_weasel 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wristwatch Revival. I have never and will never own or repair an expensive non digital watch, but it's great content. Marshall is easy to listen to and it's actually very interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most of mine have already been mentioned, but here are a few I didn't see:

  • Songs by Spencer A guy named Spencer makes songs. Relatively new channel, but the production quality is top notch. I think his day job is owner of a video production company.

  • Cheap Audio Man Reviews relatively cheap audio gear. Cheap is a pretty wide range in the audio world.

  • Awesome Open Source Talks about open source software. Usually runs through how to install and basic usage/features.

  • Chris Titus Tech Tech channel. Mostly Windows and Linux.

  • Techno Tim Mostly homelab related stuff

  • 66Samus Drum stuff

  • Nicole van der Hoeven Obsidian.md / Personal Knowledge Management

  • Rachel Maksy Cosplay / crafty stuff

  • How to ADHD ADHD stuff

  • Coffeezilla Covers scams, grifters, etc.

  • James Hoffmann All things coffee

  • The Kiffness Makes songs out of random internet clips of animals. Or remixes other people singing. My kids love this channel.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Mental Outlaw

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So these people are my go too:

Tech: MrWhosTheBoss LTT Sam Baker Andrew Ethan zeng Joe knows best(amazing but hardly uploads now)

Cars Donut Misha charoudin Auto Alex Matt Armstrong Chris slix

Video games Wildcat Black panthaa Game riot Cartoonz Grizzy Smi77y

Other random things: Thoughty2 History matters Shxtsngigs Manny khoshbin Drivetribe Gameranx Lemmino

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

jim browning (tech support scams).

Hacks into scammers' systems while they're scamming him and exposes them. Gives you a so satisfying sense of justice. And it's overall interesting to see how he's working, and educational too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

glassslinger - million year old guy in a dress fabricates vacuum tubes and repairs radios. steve1989mreinfo - guy eats old mres crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt - gonzo nature walks uscsb - your tax dollars at work

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
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BobbyBroccoli

Dude makes hour long (or longer) videos / (videoseries) about scientific topics, such as "America's missing supercollider" or "Man who tried to fake an element". And they are all done really well.

Link: https://youtube.com/@BobbyBroccoli

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
  • Alt Shift X
  • Sam O'nella Academy
  • Nexpo
  • William Osman
  • Plainly Difficult
  • Good Mythical Morning / Rhett and Link
  • Ed Bassmaster
  • Sumito Media
  • Primitive Technology
  • Solar Sands
  • Veritasium
  • Brian Lagerstrom
  • Beau Miles
  • First We Feast
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Vlogbrothers has been a favourite for many years. They do so much good! And do lots of silly stuff too, like making a series of videos with titles taken from smash mouth’s rockstar πŸ˜€

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks guys this is awesome!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is pretty niche, but if you've watched Summoning Salt and are looking for something similar, check out OneShortEye:

https://www.youtube.com/@OneShortEye

He does something similar for the world of speedrunning old LucasArts/Sierra adventure games. Highly recommended!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RedLetterMedia - movie and bad movie "reviews"

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I like echarts ladder lots of starwars content.

Also obsidian ant, game reviews etc

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Soft white underbelly.

[–] gonzo0815 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Miniminuteman - Archaeology and BS-debunking

Crecganford - Anthropological views on mythology

mΓΌnecat - popular culture BS-debunking and other stuff

The daily show - I like the discussions more than the show.

NativLang - Linguistics and stuff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I haven't seen the fall of civilizations channel being mentioned, so here you go.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Pop Culture Detective - probably my favourite out of the millions of video-essay makers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

fern is a relatively new channel covering various themes – like why french McDonalds is so much better or how a few german companies profited from Hitler and never took responsibility – in extremly high quality. Its a cooperation of two established dutch and a german channels. Really worth checking out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you are interested in woodworking there are 2 channels.

Stumpy Nubs -- provides quick (usually < 15 min) how to videos on different techniques and tricks. He does a great job of explaining and demonstrating things

Bourbon Moth - a lot of full build videos (they tend to be > 30 minutes), but he does a great job of explaining the whole process from start to finish

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bourbon Moth lost some credibility with me over the rag fire thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yep, same here.

which brings up another good suggestion (since I haven't seen it yet)... AvE. https://youtube.com/@arduinoversusevil2025. if you like smart, irreverent commentary on tool build quality and other similar stuff, this cannuk is freaking hysterical. and, I must say, quite informative

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