just went through this myself

needed a gooseneck phone mount for tomorrow morning. nothing local has something suitable, so damnit amazon it is

oh look, it’s dozens of the same product, using the exact same photo often even, from random shit brands

I’ve been doing pretty good at avoiding amazon for the past year or two, but every two or three months there’s something that I just can’t get somewhere else on the timeline I need or at a reasonable price

I just bought a 2012 as my ‘new’ vehicle because I don’t want to deal with any stupid tech issues like that

hell, I don’t even like standard traction control - if I press the accelerator, I want the wheels to get power. I’ve been stuck slowly crossing in the middle of an intersection too many times because ESC ‘helped out’ and cut power to the wheels. no mf just spin them until they get to the hard surface below the snowslush

auto high beams do not work every time.

I am routinely blinded by them when people drive through my neighborhood at night and I’m walking my dog, or when I’m biking to the store. and this is in a neighborhood with street lights where high beams are completely and utterly not required in the first place at 40 km/h.

doesn’t work well in my experience. now I typically just leave my mirrors all the way out and up when driving at night, so the headlights never hit my eyes from them

I can see everything I need to from the rearview and turning my head. it’s not like you can see anything using the side mirrors at night when somebody with LED headlights is behind you anyways, all you see is a giant flare and you can’t even tell if it’s in your lane or the next lane or how close it is

LED headlights are literally making the roads less safe by decreasing visibility and awareness

see the thing is we don’t need to put up with either of those situations, neither is acceptable

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.

you’re not supposed to watch it on 0.25x speed

doesn’t matter when lowbeams are just as bright as high beams and aimed at somebody’s face, though

incorrect. cutoff just means it isn’t blinding on flat level ground. which roads and streets are very much not

lol it’s not just aftermarket or modified stuff dude, look at any new stock Subaru/Toyota/Mazda. blinding

I want to know how many are related to drivers blinded by LED headlights. I’ve seen (and been a part of) dozens of near hits in the past few years because of this.

edit: Let me just be very clear about this — if you think that the issue is only aftermarket headlights or modified vehicles, you are mistaken. you can look at pretty much any modern Toyota or Subaru or Mazda or pickup with LED headlights and see that the low beams are just as bright as the high beams, just aimed lower. and that aim lower does not matter when the low beams are shining in somebody’s face, which happens often because roads are not level and flat. and you know where this is often the case? intersections. intersections often are raised in the middle, which means the car on the other side is angled slightly upwards, which means their low beam LED headlights are blasting the person on the other side in the face, even with their “but much cutoff is correct excuse”.

the simple inexcusable unavoidable fact is that headlights that blind people like this with this frequency are simply bad design and dangerous, and yes they also make the driver an asshole for having that vehicle and treating other people like this. like how would people feel if I just went around blasting them in the face with a flashlight that bright while walking around. they’d be livid. this is literally not any different, you’re not special just because you bought a 4,000 lb vehicle that has dangerous features.

yeah that was really disappointing. but not too surprising given his geographic area.

same, it was long enough ago that I was struggling to word what had happened

recently learned that cyfyhomeinspections is a kirkk loving trumper, too. that’s incredibly disappointing for somebody who appeared to have integrity. just goes to show how two faced a good ol’ american christian is

I mean I sort of knew what this guy was about but like damn that is a based statement

tourists? what tourists?

glad to hear my impression from skipping through was pretty consistent with how you found it

it’s not a video I’d sit down to watch, but I probably wouldn’t turn it off if it were in the background while I was working on something

no idea who Uri is. thanks for the recc.

as somebody somewhat in circles with people like him up here in Canada, there’s a lot of people out there just like him. smart about how things work, but oh so dumb about how other things work.

so, just scrolling through my subscriptions. this isn’t a list of just science channels, lots of maker/diy stuff in here, but sometimes there’s videos from those channels that overlap with the topics the more educational-type channels might have

technology connections Chris Boden Louis rossman Steve mould good work Mike Boyd this old Tony Matthias wandel bigclivedotcom fortnine Marius hornberger essential craftsman everyday home repairs project farm mujin pask makes superfastmatt Marcin plaza notanengineer inheritance machining John heisz ibuildit Michael Reeves blondihacks Laura kamph UnderDunn

also shout-out to Hunter Direction for just making amazingly beautiful videos lately, the algorithm delivered him to me recently and holy shit does his newer stuff just tickle me in exactly the right spot

I like what they’re doing with the channel though. I’m kind of tired of channels only doing one thing, and then eventually they run out of content and start producing clickbait and what the algorithm wants. or just high budget stuff that the average person doesn’t have a chance of doing themselves.

I want them to make videos that they care about, because that is what results in a quality video. and if it’s not a topic I care about, then I just don’t watch the video.

like that hiking gear video - I’m not interested in watching his opinion on that stuff. I’m not interested in a review from three people who probably know less about that stuff than I do doing a semi-clickbaity comparison. but I did click through the video just to get the vibe, and the vibe did not turn me off. idk, I’d have to watch more to be sure.