Clickspring is a great maker channel that feels like 20-40 minute long episodes of how it's made (kinda)

He has playlists of his projects and he's been making a period correct reproduction of the antikythra mechanism using the same bronze age tools of the ancient makers who created the original.

EEVBlog is fun if you know electronics and want to learn more. He does a phenomenal series on parts and pieces. He's a layman's wikipedia on "what's an FPGA and why should I know?" As opposed to the more electrical engineering centric sources out there where you already need to know a lot to understand it. He's entertaining and high energy (honestly he strikes me as someone with self managed bipolar or something. That's the vibe I get since I've been friends with at least 4 others who present similar to Dave)

Tasting history, 18th century cooking, and table of the gods are both great historical cooking channels. Some of them will give the recipes for free for you to try at home.

Huygen's optics is a channel run by a understated genius. He explains how optics and optical manufacturing works and he runs his own precision optics workshop in his basement. He once made a spirit bubble level for his pool table with an internal radius of like I'm (meaning it's like carving a 15cm diameter circle out of a 16m wide sphere) so his level had like sub-arcsecond resolution iirc? A human hair underneath it would throw it off scale.

Applied Science is another amazing Science & engineering channel. He made his own back scatter computed tomography machine with a lazy Suzan, an X-ray tube, an Arduino, and a X-ray phosphorescence developer box/camera.

I tried this... bunch of stuff kept getting repeated like I was the most hyperfocused person on earth, so I go into the history and remove a bunch of content related to it. Surely that's driving the recommendations, right?

Well, the instant result is that it just recommended me back everything I'd deleted. Slow clap IRL

And, in a truly shocking development, it turns out the UX for trying to manipulate your history and recs is dogshit

You should turn off your history and tracking and algorithm all together, and just search for things you want to watch. Also, only use the Subscriptions tab instead of Home tab.

I don't have an account so I just reset my browser and start fresh.

They should turn their watch history off

You guys have history? I save anything worth looking at later in Watch Later or liked videos.

I have such a long backlog of interesting stuff saved in WL that youtube could churn out nothing but slop for the next 2 years straight and I wouldn't get close to running out of videos to watch lol

The YouTube algorithm really sucks these days. You click on one video and that's all it recommends to you until you break out of it by manually searching for something else.

Seconded on Tasting History. Plus if your new, theres a whole backlog to work through. I also enjoy Barry Lewis for mealtime vids. He does a lot of testing of products and viral video recipes.

Dude if my brain doesn't have input it start a pros and cons list for self termination.

Check out this brave guy, just raw dogging the dark thoughts

What if I make eye contact with what dwells beyond?

At least V was entertaining and funny. I just tried to watch Manifest. That actually is the worst acting ever, and it's not even compelling or funny. It's like the worst commercial-level acting. At least V shows you how to plan an insurgency against an invading alien force.