YT Rec

Any based youtube channel lainons watch regularly? My rec: >Jreg >Luke Smith (unaboomer) >dovahhatty

>watching a literal imageboard influencer cringe

>>6240 hans wormhat

>>6241 >listening to what others have to say about anything Lol what a slave, I bet you even read my post

>>6240 just watch melee compilation videos and lecture after lecture of math I don't practice so I'll never retain

I don't have any channel recommendations, but let me tell you about avoiding the site altogether, because every change they make makes it worse. 1. Youtube provides RSS feeds. They're very useful. They are in the form of https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<channel ID> 2. mpv - and probably others - can open Youtube URLs directly. 3. On Android, there's a piece of software called NewPipe that parses YouTube webpages - and RSS feeds - to provide a more pleasant interface. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/ 3. There's a Firefox addon that redirects Youtube pages to Invidious automatically. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hooktube-redirect/ 4. If you combine these, you can avoid ever opening the site. I have a script[1] that decides whether to open mpv or a web browser when I click an entry in QuiteRSS for stuff I care about. 5. You can feed youtube-dl a channel or playlist URL and it will download the lot. Bonus: not using the website will probably result in you wasting less time as you're not subject to their psychological warfare. [1]: https://git.shadowkat.net/izaya/sitewb/src/branch/master/sitewb.lua

Zontar

>>6246 the algorithmic oppression is real

>>6240 >Any based youtube channel lainons watch regularly? >Luke Smith I also watch Smith but I disagree with him on most things like >muh debian bad because npm isn't packaged properly and >P-values in statistics bad because they can theoretically be misused aside from him I watch/recommend styropyro and The Modern Rogue

>>6240 >Luke Smith Started watching because of GNU/Linux, stayed for the life advice. Things like independance, setting a good example, and especially one's relationship to technology (less organizational technology). I think many people dismiss him because of the thumbnails, or because they don't want to shake off what image boards have done to them. >bisqwit Incredible videos on graphics/low level/c/c++ programming by a former finnish bus driver. His most recent video is on lightmaps and global illumination in implemented in his own C++20 software renderer. >tripcode!Q/7 Videos on Hardware, ThinkPads, GNU/Linux >Practical Engineering Civil Engineer explains mechanical/electrical/civil engineering concepts. Maybe a bit on the edutainment side, but I get alot out of it since these are fields quite foreign to me.

Trip code, Luke Smith, MentalOutlaw , and Kris Occhipinti are all great Linux channels. N-O-D-E is good for fun diy projects.

Hard to pick some of the best ones so quickly Don Jolly DAMN SON Friendlyjordies Project Veritas Emplemon

>>6246 Good post. You should add invidious and the browser add-on Privacy Redirect to your routine. I have mine set up so every youtube link I click opens its counterpart on https://invidio.us here's the add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/

>>6246 >3. There's a Firefox addon that redirects Youtube pages to Invidious automatically. I personally use a userscript, cause avoid having to much addons. This one is pretty good, highly configurable (and works for twitter>nitter; instagram>bibliogram...). https://greasyfork.org/de/scripts/374833-yt2invidio

>>6246 > fire fox add on This was very useful, another pro tip would be to entirely disable recommended videos no matter where you watch them. I use ublock for that.

>>6242 >hans wormhat Sorry I love my brain cells, at least the remaining ones after watching his videos. >>6247 >Zontar Who that? >>6250 >P-values are bad Haven't watched this but his criticism of science is really on point tho, this generation (here we go) is fascinated by science but they don't know: 1- soykaf they talk about, even some scientist don't watch how lawrence krauss was owned Hamza Tzortzis... now imagine asking normal people those questions. 2- massive presumptions (checkmate atheists) we have to make when doing logic, science just werks and that's what I care about. if I want to get to understand something like: >muh consciousness idc what science says this was rambly I have to watch the video to formulate an opinion but why would you even listen to that just read nassim taleb or something. Generally speaking Luke's lifestyle and *nix chaddery is whats appealing. >>6254 >mental outlaw Yeah mental outlaw is pretty good, didn't know he was a chad until recently (his twitter vid) >>6255 >Emplemon Yep, got to know him cause of rusty cage ( recommended ). >>6252 >stayed for the advice Wise choice Thanks lainons.

Steve1989MREInfo is comfy

>>6246 >1. Youtube provides RSS feeds. They're very useful. You can also easily export all your YouTube subscriptions as an OPML file, which then can be imported into an RSS client. My question is whether there's any RSS client which supports showing YouTube thumbnails, though?

>>6264 works on my machine, they're at the bottom of the description if your reader is image-inclined, it'll usually show the first image as the cover image, which will be the thumbnail

>>6264 >whether there's any RSS client which supports showing YouTube thumbnails Thumbnails are mind control instruments, sophisticated nix users such as myself will never need images

>>6265 I haven't found nearly any open source 'image-inclined' ones. Anyone tried this one? https://www.getmiro.com/ https://github.com/pculture/miro The windows installer from the site has -14 votes on VirusTotal for whatever reason, so I'll try building it myself.

I love HL2 beta stuff so I like these channels https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVgZw2hguslwhERp-BRYFAg https://www.youtube.com/c/HL2ProjectBeta

>>6264 I like RSS web clients rather than dedicated client software. Miniflux is a good one.

>>6276 Oh and yes the point of my reply was miniflux displays YouTube videos embedded in the article page. Idk if that's what you meant by thumbnails.

>>6276 > like RSS web clients rather than dedicated client software. Have you tried Liferea? https://lzone.de/liferea/install.htm

>>6278 No, it looks nice though and solves my first complaint with RSS clients: that you often have to open articles in a web browser because rendering is inconsistent (and not every feed includes full article text). However, my main reason for doing things this way is because I want all of my feeds to live on my home server so I don't have to deal with syncing between devices, and miniflux seemed like the easiest way to do that.

>>6240 >Luke Smith I very highly approve of his choice to be more independent and move to PeerTube. I hope that software gets more traction. YouTube is too big. >>6246 This is pretty similar to what I do. >Youtube RSS feeds If you wanted to avoid the site even more you could always use invidious RSS versions instead. >Firefox add-on I use Invidition which also turns twitter links into nitter links. You can also choose which invidious instance it turns links into. Maybe it'll add bibliogram instead of instagram but at that point it'll start turning into a bloated generic add-on probably. >Download the lot I also advise starting to archive your favourite videos and channels because they will undoubtedly be deleted soon. Techlore and The Hated One are good basic channels also. May be too basic for those around here.

>>6282 >I very highly approve of his choice to be more independent and move to PeerTube. Same, it was actually his ideas on independence that got me into watching his videos, I might start making videos on peertube someday. well that if I stop being a good for nothing fool. >The Hated One He is in a weird position I find his content not as effective, he appeals to normal people however he just brushes off slightly complicated topics. The result is people getting the most basics of stuff done and ignoring the rest which is better than nothing but not that useful for the future of the internet.

Alpha to Omega podcast channel Democracy at Work Redacted Tonight The Jimmy Dore Show

>>6286 Hmm, I'm highly skeptical of political journalism on the internet. You know the type that stands in front of the Camera reading the news n stuff. My first impression is always that they are charlatans. I have to watch more of these stuff so feel free to ignore my first impressions.

ContraPoints She produces genuinely interesting stuff.

I only watch videos when I'm having a meal because I don't have tv, some channels which I watch are: >RickyBobbySez (on bitchute) The only reason why I use this channel is because they have all of Dr. William Luther Pierce's radio broadcasts. >American Renaissance >MurdochMurdoch (sort of on youtube but you can find all of their videos on their website) >Survive the Jive >Numberphile >Baggers >random talks on Lisp Sometimes I also watch Bisqwit and Luke Smith but I don't care too much about their projects/software choices and also I watch lain_OS (on bitchute) but not as much as others.

>>6289 fuarrrking this, 3/4's of "journalism" is commentary about journalism.

>>6250 P-values are bad and shouldn't be used positively, but only to affirm non-validity of a hypothesis.

>>6300 > ContraPoints A lot better that virgin philosophy tube. I watch Contra mostly for the aesthetic, at least both of these two are better than "logic/rational" channels. I think they are damaging and time consuming. You basically have to read hume and then you can see how little they have to offer... imagine being a dumped down version of a philosopher who thought it was a good way to waste time. (by rational channels I mean Rationality Rules and other cringy soybois like cosmic skeptic)

>>6305 > I think they are damaging and time consuming. Who do you mean by "they"? I do agree that reading actual philosophy is more enlightening, but it is actually serious work. And a lot of texts, especially the older ones, are written in a way that does not lead itself to easy reading. So IMO watching videos is completely fine, as long as you don't trick yourself that you know soykaf just because you watched some guy on youtube ramble about the topic.

>>6307 Contextually "they" likely means "ContraPoints", lainon. polite sage for not offering much other than a response to your question.

xah lee

>>6307 >>6308 I said contra is fine, unlike rationality rules, cosmic skeptic and others they influence or are influenced by or influence. Even tho I agree not every one has to go through the original material but some contents out there are just horrible. >The mostly means contrapoints to be honest every pronoun is fine with me. I just want to call people lain or anon if possible...

recently I learned about the Internet Historian and his videos are hilarious to be honest. watch a 40 year old Persian electrical engineer hurt himself: ElectroBoom watch a group of Ukrainian ne-er-do-wells perform very dangerous experiments a few miles from a warzone: KREOSAN (there is a guy who translates KREOSAN videos to English too) Adventures in the Kiev underground: Super Sus (also gets translated to English by some guy) a lot of Leonard Susskind's physics lectures are on youtube and he's a pretty good lecturer. >>6262 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otj8ulBs2vM

Mental Outlaw. Based black man. Andreas Kling. Based C++ OS dev.

>>6240 Thatanimesnob

FinnishBolshevik

Youtube is only ok for music. Anything that has to do with personalities of "youtubers" is so horrible, I don't get why people endure it. >>6416 ouch

>>6417 If that's what you see on youtube, it's because the algorithm thinks you're a queef. There are plenty of good youtube channels.

>>6240 Here's mine (in no particular order): >Jreg >Anglo Libertarian >Whang >Wavywebsurf >Emplemon >Some Ordinary Gamers >Super Eyepatch Wolf >Fredrick Knudsen >Coding Secrets >Linus Tech Tips >Rebel Taxi >Internet Historian >Leafyishere (yes, seriously) >AVGN And a few more that I can't remember right now

>>6429 to be honest I'm not logged in and usually block a lot of trackers, so I guess it tries to guess using it's best default models.

For those that don't had the info regarding the end of invidio.us: https://omar.yt/posts/stepping-away-from-open-source https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/1320 https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/1321

>>6289 I largely agree, but Jimmy Dore is the real deal. He makes no claim to presenting any sort of objective journalistic truth of his own. What he does instead is interview genuine journalists like Chris Hedges and Aaron Mate, or air video of events on the ground like protests or politicians saying the quiet parts out loud. It's not just video after video of literally nothing but ranting into a camera. (Though he does do that occasionally - but it's usually funny, so I give him a pass.) It also helps that Jimmy's "studio" is a greenscreen in his garage and that he (nominally) has a day job. I'm always intensely suspicious of youtube folks with expensive studios and no other job, like the Hill TV Rising bunch or The Young Turks. Whenever a lot of money is spent on production values and salaries, I want to know exactly who pays the bills, and what the quid pro quo is.

>>6240 Ephemeral rift, he helps me study and it's good to have someone who cares I also watch oneyplays, oney is cool

>>6430 I'm amazed the AVGN is still going. Feels like youtube moved away from that style of channel.

Jreg is like kicking dead whales down the beach huehue polintical ideolongies are stereotype human characters XDDDD LE POLANBALL I guarantee 90%+ of his followers are under the age of 18. Luke Smith is alright I guess. Seems like a decent dude.

I like this one, 9/10, would be 10/10 if he didn't brag about his wife in every video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myO8fxhDRW0

>>6240 Kay And Skittles https://www.youtube.com/c/KayAndSkittles/videos Thought Slime https://www.youtube.com/c/ThoughtSlime/videos Vaush https://www.youtube.com/c/Vaush/videos

>>6585 She has a dangerously bad stance. She's just begging for eye damage or a concussion. Though I do agree with her ancap-extermination policy.

>>6240 >meme analysis https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb4pvsyqNrmBIGJFQxEukUA He analize memes

>>6585 >Thought Slime I don't normally do the "cultural/political opinion video" thing, but this guy is OK so far. Coherent, calm, reasoned. I just watched his video on the political weaponization of nostalgia and found it to be an interesting take on the matter.

>>6585 >Thought Slime This guys just kind of boring to me. Good for CK2 background music but not great to watch. Curious about kay and skittles though.

>>6255 nice to see that someone else watches Jolly. He's a good ol boy

>>6255 Friendlyjordies is one of, if not the only decent/genuinely entertaining Australian youtube people. All the others are cringe overload. Well, gmanlives and minimme are pretty decent if you have an interest in video games, which I don't but they can be entertaining nonetheless. Polite sage for no input

>>6598 Replying to myself. I watched a few more of his videos, and while some of what he said was interesting, I just kept rolling my eyes over the identity-politics nonsense. jammit, I'm an old-school class-reductionist-and-proud leftist. I'm so sick of this woke "better watch my language lest I appear ableist, by the way this video was recorded on treaty territory" bullshit. I want to see calm-yet-furious people talking about things that really matter, like class solidarity and general strikes. Sigh. The search continues.

>>6645 Do you understand that you can watch a channel even if you don't agree with all his views? Do you understand that you can enjoy some of his content even if you don't enjoy the rest of his content? It seems to me like instead of looking for someone who can provide new takes on various topics, you're looking for someone you could fanboy for.

>>6646 It's not his views I have a problem with. I'm all on board with his contempt for modern capitalism. I agree that indigenous people worldwide have been fuarrrked over. What I have a problem with is his (and many other peoples') excessive worry about form over substance in how those views are presented. If I see some public figure doing or believing something insane, I'll happily use the word "lunacy" to describe their actions, and I'll stand by my use of that word. I won't spend five minutes in my next video obsequiously apologizing for my "ableism" in my use of the word "lunacy" because it has historical roots in the stigmatization of mental illness.

>>6647 You have to do stuff like that in this day and age or the lynch mob will try to cancel you.

Vintage (80s-90s) electronics repair: https://www.youtube.com/user/ATVVideoProductions/videos Cart Narcs: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClMUlr8yHymYgSe58DpUH7w/videos Cart Narcs and music are the only things I'll play at 1x speed.

>Louis Rossman Makes nice practical videos about board repair on computers (mostly macbooks). Pretty good personality and a staunch defender of right to repair (frequently debates corporate lobbyists in state level hearings and such). Runs a repair shop in NYC. >Eric the Car Guy Not so active any more but I learned basically everything I know about fixing my car from him. Used to be really prolific so there's a huge back catalog of videos showing how to do very specific repairs that other similar channels don't cover. >Technology Connections Well produced informational videos on various everyday technologies. He does a good job of weaving the history of how something came about with a mechanical explanation of how it works. Seems to have an interest in standards in technology. I also think he's funny in a "goofball" kind of way. >Hainbach Very thoughtful German experimental/ambient music producer who makes videos on analog synthesis. I say "synthesis" and not "synths" because he isn't just a standard synth review channel. His claim to fame is probably the videos he made about using old signal test equipment for music production. He also does cool stuff with tape, and more standard eurorack-based vids if that's your thing. >LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER Absolute mad scientist of analog circuitry. The backdrop of many of his vids is an 8 foot tall rack of synthesizer modules he made himself, and he has quite a few tutorials showing how he makes them. Besides that he does a lot of crazy one-off projects. Recently he's been apparently trying to work out exactly how many independent VCOs he can put in a single giant synth. Currently he's at 1000 lol. >Team O'Neil Runs a rally driving school in New Hampshire. Makes a lot of good videos teaching how to drive fast off-road, plus some stuff about how to modify a car to do so.