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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

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.

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

I got a whole list of other automotive channels if you need.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago
[–] Death_Equity 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HollowNaught 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] AA5B 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] HollowNaught 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
  • Car and motorcycle [re]building
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AA5B 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for an interesting list to search through

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I highly recommend Astrum's series about the Opportunity rover.