Might qualify more for !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world but I recently replaced the oxygen sensor on my Subaru all on my own, after 3 years of putting up with a check engine light.

Funny enough, you’re not the first one who’s also noticed this. A couple years ago, me and a colleague (in helpdesk) shared our YouTube subscriptions and found 80% of them matched, and he introduced me to such channels like Usagi Electric.

I do otherwise tend to notice comments on one channel’s videos make references to other channels I also watch (outside of the usual Bringus Studios and DankPods references), so I tend to think I’m part of a larger niche of Gen Z / Millenial computer geeks.

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 might be playing Devil’s Advocate here, but Psivewri.

I started watching him years ago for his tech videos, usually restoring mundane computers, and I still enjoy that content.

However, he started getting into automotive, and I’m glad that he’s stretching out into other areas. It’s clear he’s still learning and probably on my level of mechanics (backyardie who can watch videos and read a workshop manual), but my issue is how he presents the videos like he knows what he’s doing, almost like a tutorial - giving random tips throughout.

His Dad assists him with the work he does on cars (like myself) and in that sense, I’d rather hear tips from the Dad than him because I’d have more confidence he knows what he’s talking about.

Otherwise maybe PhoenixSC? I started watching him when he was uploading redstone contraptions to r/Minecraft and he had 4K subscribers. His older, experimental videos were always interesting, and his work on adventure maps like PokeCA was amazing to watch.

Today, most of his videos boil down to the following:

• Meme reactions
• Takes on Mojang controversy and how he believes the community should respond
• Joke Minecraft creations

I’m glad that he’s grown to be more confident in himself and in general, become more entertaining when he talks, but I feel he’s gone too much into the mainstream over the last few years rather than keeping to his lane.

If I’m completely honest, I’ve felt that with my own use of AI and it’s my primary driver in reducing or outright avoiding its use personally - I’m not learning anything when it codes up crap that barely works, and then debugging that crap later on is a nightmare because I don’t have the requisite experience.

In IT, you see people do things the hard way so often because it’s what they know and figured out, and changing over to an easy way requires them to relearn and change their workflow, which they just don’t see the point in.

You’ve already suggested to them there’s a better and easier way to do what they need with existing tools instead of AI and they’ve turned it down - I would say leave it there. Something something leading horses to waters.

I chose my username when I was still a teenager, originally with the meaning that I’m a nerd, but not like an amazing or extremely smart nerd, nor extremely awkward. Just your average guy with autism and nerdy on particular subjects.

I’ve mostly kept with it because it’s how most of my online friends know me, and I still think it’s part of my identity, although I’ve since developed interests that a stereotypical nerd might not have such as cycling, mountain biking, travelling and hiking.

I’m not an experienced developer, I’ve just done stuff in Java and Python before, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

If we’re strictly talking interfaces, most modern software is a web browser showing you their interface made in HTML. Common ones that come to mind include Discord, Microsoft Teams and Spotify. You can usually tell from how hovering over action buttons always results in a pointing hand cursor, and how absolutely sluggish they run even on decent hardware. This is often done with Electron, and these apps are often called Electron apps.

The problem with this is that now you’re not running a native application with minimal overhead, you’re running a whole ass web engine

This is (probably, IMO) because it’s much easier to hire a frontend web developer and have them do up an interface, than have a dedicated backend developer do it for whatever window library. It also makes it easy to port the app to many systems (including mobile) given how HTML5, CSS and JS all can be made to work on any platform that can run a web engine.

I also imagine that it makes the user interface consistent to the company’s brand, rather than consistent to your operating system. If you look at Discord on Windows, macOS and Linux, it looks almost identical on all three except for only where necessary such as the top window border. Meanwhile if you look at LibreOffice (native application) on Windows, macOS and Linux, the window styling is completely different per system.

Update I realise after posting that I never otherwise explained other performance considerations outside of the interface - but I hope that just briefly going into interfaces gives a good idea already for software. If you are talking games, then that’s a whole separate conversation

Australian here, decorations go up in about early December and come down by early January generally; I imagine similar to the US.

Otherwise given there’s no snow during that time of year, it’s usually celebrated by doing summer things like going to the beach, having a barbie, and generally just a time for families and friends to come together while no-one has work.

I’m going off memory from 10+ years ago in my recount, and I suppose similar to those who played 8-bit or 16-bit games and swore they looked better than they actually do, I just fondly remember just how much the 4th wall was broken there and how so much integrated together in the moment.

Dude yes! I had an idea to play those in my car when I met up with a friend interstate, but I then decided to do something that was higher effort, and I made my own mock radio station where I was the host, heavily inspired by the VC radio stations

It started off completely normal with subtle hints (the station name was BSFM), and then started having odd songs play like Minecraft parodies, music from other games and small indie artists only we would know, and towards the end I did “talkback” interviewing all of our friends that were in on it, giving weird takes on bread of all things.

Portal 2 - The Part Where He Kills You

The player is put into this spike trap by the antagonist (Wheatley), and at this point the chapter text comes up saying “Chapter 9: The Part Where He Kills You”, you get an achievement of the same name, and Wheatley then says “Hello! This is the part where I kill you!”

The timing and delivery of it was so perfect.

GTA Vice City - taxi and ambulance driving

I loved the part of VC (and I think other installments have this too) where you jump into either a taxi or ambulance and you can then become an actual driver for them, earning money. Loved that minigame for being such a different thing to all the other missions.

Driv3r - the Bascule Bridge

In one of the maps of Driv3r (kind of a GTA clone), there was a Bascule bridge you could actually toggle, and so I’d usually get a wanted rating, bait as much police and cars onto the bridge (even blocking the roadway with my own car) and then draw the bridge up with all of them on it, and watch how the physics bug out and some officers end up in water (should never happen in normal gameplay) and the cars just all explode in the water.

I get this a little bit too, like “oh god, did I just kick a hornet’s nest?” but at the end of the day it’s just people on a forum giving their takes while having a dump, if I say the wrong shit I’ll stand corrected and otherwise if it’s trolls, fuck em.

Ph1lza, the guy that lost his Minecraft hardcore world of 8(?) years.

You know how there’s those large burials that happen sometimes? What would you call a place where lots of deceased humans are buried?

I know it probably wasn’t your intention, but thank you for making my day with this comment, and for doing your part for the fucking birds.

I think in the case of the Minecraft movie, Jack Black is a symptom of a bigger issue with the movie; it was always a cash grab

I get how you feel, but personally I don’t really have that for all of tech. I’d say if apps could be in a state just before enshittification comes in, that would be my date per app.

But I think even in modern day, open source is bigger and more powerful than ever, Linux is actually viable for some non techies (Steam Deck), and I’m genuinely happy to be in the present in that respect. If you manage to avoid using all the proprietary crapware these days, it’s never been a better time to embrace open source software.

Of course, environmentally and politically things are absolutely horrid, but I think that’s a topic out of your question’s scope.

I’m gonna go against the grain and say no, I don’t name my cars other than what they are - my “Subaru” and my “Mazda”. If I got another car from the same manufacturer, then I’d switch it to the model like my " Forester" and my “323”

However, I do have a friend whose family has a designated learner car that they call “Socks” simply because the number plate ends in SOX

I’ve been on Linux for going on 10 years, went through just about all the major and moderate distros out there and the past two years I’ve just been using mint on my study laptops (in particular LMDE for stability) and it’s completely fine for me.