Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world AA5B @lemmy.world 3w ago

YouTube history

The last several months, I’ve started watching YouTube.

I tried looking at what I’ve been watching:

lawn mowing
drain clearing
dog grooming

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I spend lots of time watching professionals at work.

People like

Cutting Edge Engineering (machinist)

Rain Man Rays Repairs (automotive mechanic)

Yourshire Car Restoration (automotive restoration)

And Bobs Decline (lineman)
- Decided to learn guitar this year.
  
  Spent the first week of the year watching nothing but Luthiers.
  
  Guess I'm really starting from scratch then.
- I got a whole list of other automotive channels if you need.
  
  The other two that come to mind are
  
  South Main Auto
  
  And
  
  I Do Cars
  
  But I'm happy to hear of others.
  
  There's also a bunch of hobby machinists I watch, though I've not found many that show day-to-day professional work like CEE does. Maybe Abom79, but he focuses on smaller home projects, not so much industry type stuff.
Watch Fat Electrician, he does a lot of history stuff that is well presented and entertaining. Lots of highlighting exceptional members of the military that had plot armor or were the main character. His second channel does highlights of companies like Arizona Iced Tea, Chik-Fil-a, etc.
- A favourite - 'ah yes the time the US got upset and destroyed a half of Irans entire naval fleet in a single eight hour workday'
If you value privacy, I recommend using freetube, an open source frontend to YouTube

You can import your sub list, and your front page will be all their most recently uploaded videos in order

I pretty commonly have the issue of missing uploads because of my work, and that basically fixes it
- Thanks. While I do, every solution I’ve tried is less convenient on iPhone. Generally I just don’t login and hope that does something
  
  Yeah, the iPhone microsystem is very restrictive. I'm not one to sing praises for samsung (they're just as bad in many ways), but I can still install apks for custom apps like tubetube, another safer YouTube frontend
  
  I can't verify anything, but there seem to be some (albeit limited) alternatives like vuetube and yattee still floating around for ios
  
  While I do, every solution I’ve tried is less convenient on iPhone
  
  Can't expect to gain something (privacy) without losing something in return (convenience).
Car and motorcycle [re]building
I love hard work, I could watch it all day.

some of the yard work guys are insane. I literally could watch them all day.
I've got a lot of woodtube like Paul Sellers and Wood By Wright, plus a lot of stuff about Subnautica and RedLetterMedia. Also SEA, Astrum and History For Granite, my fall asleep documentary team.
- Thanks for an interesting list to search through
  
  I highly recommend Astrum's series about the Opportunity rover.

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