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some of my faves:

k&j lumber

project kamp

martjin doolard

m. bjornstroem

technology connections

this old tony

wesley treat

pask makes

frank howarth

chest’er

four eyes furniture

shawn boyd made this

Practical Engineering

Tasting History with Max Miller.

Map Men. It's always educational, interesting, and they have amazing Monty Pythonish gags and jokes.

The various PBS YouTube channels almost never miss.

Some of the best science content on the internet and explains everything in layman's terms.

For higher level science:

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas

Puts up conferences and interviews of some of the top scientific minds on the planet.

Joe Pera, comedian started around 14 years ago

nobody, musical mixes/tracklists, really good at setting moods and introduced me to a bunch of artists and songs 4 years of mixes

Townsends, classic pioneers time guy, mostly food I don't know how long but he's been around forever

Jeff Gerstmann, video games journalist

Some ones I haven't seen yet:

• Camping with Steve (relaxed Canadian camping with plenty of dry humour, usually some wild stealth camping adventures)
• Budget-Builds Official (tries out random ass computer hardware and finds its limits)
• dosdude1 (infamous for crazy Mac upgrades that require resoldering BGA chips and chip programming)
• EthosLab (already saw Xisumavoid mentioned, Etho is still happily making mature Minecraft videos)
• Flexiny (ASMR-like videos of mechanics fixing old cars to run again)
• FlyTech Videos (Windows experiments and deep dives into how Win32 and NT do things)
• GIFGAS (usual accomplice with shiey in train surfing, although I enjoy GIFGAS' edits more than shiey)
  • Side note: His videos are taken down regularly so you have to be quick to download them before they disappear
• Hugh Jeffreys (Australian right to repair advocate, usually repairs smartphones but has dabbled into more vintage items recently)
• Janus Cycle (2000s deep retrospectives into technology)
• Plainly Difficult (British industrial accident examinations with wonderfully shoddy graphics)
• polymatt (absolute 3D modelling wizard who takes on restoring vintage tech to beyond brand new with incredible attention to detail, and very engaging edits)
• Seytonic (cyber security news roundup weekly)
• This Does Not Compute (retro computer repairs and retrospectives)
• Usagi Electric (extremely vintage computer repairs, going right back to vacuum tubes to 1980s minicomputers)

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I've been watching TheCrafsMan explain DIY techniques for almost a decade now.

The topics and explanations have always made for great videos but the effort put into videography and music has definitely skyrocketed as the channel grew. He's never strayed from the wholesome, zen-like tone or given clues about his real identity.

@Raycevick

He makes great in depth analysies about games. I would gladly sacrifice every single ign, gamespot, polygon etc etc articles just to have well tought content like his released biweekly.

It's probably not the genre people here tend to enjoy, but if you are into homesteading and farm stuff, Gold Shaw Farm has been excellent for years now.

I just wanted to say, y'all are my people, we don't agree on everything, but I'm glad to have moved to lemmy. The few channels mentioned here that I'm not subbed to, I'll be checking out.

science based channels(research, discoveries), although you have to correct the info from time to time, so it doesnt sound like misinformation, occurs quite frequently with biology, phylogenitcs. influencer channels however degrade/decline over time, especially when they become annoyingly political.

i watch pbs eons, deep look, have to comment on them making mistake about species, phylogeny accuracy from to time. one time i commented on the "acoelomorph" video, and said they are unrelated to flatworms.

I echo a lot of the sentiments here. Two I'm not really seeing are Project Farm and Eric the Car Guy. Eric is just coming back from a hiatus of sorts.

A few others I like

CNC Kitchen

Rob Dahm

Low-Buck Garage

Zach Freedman

SuperfastMatt

StrangeParts

Driving4Answers

CrackerMilk

PixelPete

Andy Didorsi (not as old a channel though)

Mr Carlson's Lab

Heather Cox Richardson

And of course, Technology Connections and Gamer's Nexus.

Bonus item because I like what they are doing, Edison Motors.

Music bonus item because she's remained consistently excellent for years, Lauren Babic.

Some more news is still as it ever was

People have already mentioned most of the maker and DIY channels that I enjoy

so I'll mention a new to me channel — Hunter Direction

if you already like most of the machinist and maker channels, and you like cars, then you will probably love this channel. seems like it's a guy just making videos about his project cars, which expanded into making videos about his projects (home ownership stuff). but his latest stuff is scripted and shot and edited so damn well, it's art. I would highly recommend watching his last couple videos. they're not short but god damn are they quality

oh, and Mujin. I didn't see anybody mention him. another dry humor DIY type channel. love it.

A channel that's missing here which I personally really like is TimeGhost history and their other channels World War Two and The Korean War. Their coverage of world war two in real time (which they finished already) was especially great. I'm not necessarily the biggest history nerd, but there's something quite enjoyable about following history "live" this way.

Well There's Your Problem, a podcast about engineering disasters with slides.

https://youtube.com/@explainingcomputers
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https://youtube.com/@christopherbarnatt

DOT COM

https://youtube.com/@mothersbasement

I only listen to this one guy for anime reccomendations.

https://youtube.com/@colinfurze

Never has a lull, always good.

https://youtube.com/@chemicalforce

Pretty toxic chemistry

https://youtube.com/@weirdexplorer

If you don't really care about exotic fruit adventures, at least watch his feature length Nutmeg documentary it's most excellent.

https://youtube.com/@civvie11

Boomer shooter comedic...retrospectives? I like him.

https://youtube.com/@mrcarlsonslab

He repairs very old electronics and is soothing to listen to.

https://youtube.com/@fortnine

I don't even really care about motorcycles, but their video editing skills are incredible.

https://youtube.com/@lowbuckgarage

Accurate, he will do everything possible to avoid spending money on a project.

https://youtube.com/@styropyro

Mad scientist.

https://youtube.com/@casuallyexplained

His sense of humor doesn't get old for me.

https://youtube.com/@thecodyreeder

Mad scientist.

https://youtube.com/@robwords

Taught me more about language than any teacher in my life ever did.

https://youtube.com/@st1ka

I find a lot of obscure old games to play via this guy and his videos are high effort.

https://youtube.com/@posymusic

Every video is a work of art. It doesn't matter what the subject is, you'll be entranced.

https://youtube.com/@techtangents

Bitrot necromancy enthusiast.

https://youtube.com/@littlevmills

A Canadian who makes high effort metal music covers.

https://youtube.com/@joel-haver

He just likes to make movies. I like his movies. A lot.

https://youtube.com/@theslowmoguys

It's in the name!

https://youtube.com/@integza

Mad scientist.

https://youtube.com/@evenflow2907

High effort vehicular brainrot.

https://youtube.com/@labeast

Have a good day!

https://youtube.com/@umami

A lovely weird Canadian artist I adore.

Hbomberguy has been getting nothing but better.

Foldingideas also has fantastic long form video essays that I really enjoy.

videogamedunkey

Been watching his videos for ~10 years now

I think a whole lot of "maker" type channels have all stayed pretty solid, off the top of my head

This Old Tony
Adam Savage
Xyla Foxlin
Clickspring
Blondihacks
Colin Furze
Inheritance Machining (though compared to some of the others he's relatively new)
Stuff Made Here
Jeremy Fielding

Branching out a bit

How to drink
Caitlin Doughty (ask a mortician)
LockpickingLawyer
NileRed (and NileBlue)
Tasting History
Townsends
Useful Charts
EDIT: Almost forgot Technology Connections

Some of them have changed their format a bit over the years, I don't think that's been a negative for any of them. Also due to how YouTube revenue works these days a lot of them have had to rely more heavily on sponsors, patron, merch etc. don't hate the player for that, hate the game.

Numberphile and any other channel by Brady Haran.

Workshop Companion is great for beginner-friendly woodworking, and I've been really liking HomeRenoVision DIY for home renovation content.

• Practical Engineering
• Gamer Nexus (for sure)
• Matt's off road recovery
• Tested(Adamsavage)
• Startalk
• Trail mater
• GrizzlyandBear Overlanding
• Kirk Kreifles
• the Car Care Nut & Car Care Nut auto reviews
• Driver 61
• Sarah-n-tuned
• Max Velocity (weather)
• Grind Hard Plumbing
• Throttle House
• AutoJeffReviews
• DrivingSportsTV