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No mention of Hardware Unboxed? They do some good reviews on monitors, and roundups on motherboards, gpus, etc. Like Gamer's Nexus, they're 'boring', but very informative. Their roundups in particular are great, very helpful for making good purchasing decisions, such as getting motherboards that can actually handle overclocks, if you're going that way, or getting a GPU that won't smell like fire.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI8iQa1hv7oV_Z8D35vVuSg
 
As some mentioned before, Gamers Nexus. Boring as their videos could be compared to Linus Tech Tips, they do get down to the point of their videos that they're one of the long video Youtubers I'm willing to sit down and watch.
 
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Modern Vintage Gamer, he looks and sounds like he's taking too many blows to the head so he shouldn't know much beyond reciting wiki pages, but he makes great videos about console development and how emulation and such works because he's a programmer that have been porting emulators to consoles/handhelds since the first xbox. So almost 20 years.

He made a good video about the complexity of Cell code for the PS3 and a video about 'mistakes' Nintendo made that made Mario 64 run slower than it should on the N64.

Modern Vintage Gamer is solid, he gushes about some amazing feats specific to gaming technology and often emulation, and then breaks down how it was done.
He even shows you some of his own hacks and proofs of concept sometimes, like he did when he personally ported Doom to the Switch just to show how easy a port can be.

His video covering the creation of open sourcing Diablo is really nice if you're into software/programming.

I've seen Level1Techs mentioned, they have good news podcasts for some background noise if you want the tech perspective on certain things. They have a secondary channel, Level1Linux or something that covers some DIY things and of course linuxy things.
The main dude, Wendell (fatty), is very keen on mass storage. I imagine he has done enterprise stuff with that before because he's done a lot of talking on how different consumer vs enterprise storage is even when consumers store exabytes of data.

DistroTube is good an a general advocate for FOSS and free speech. He's a VIM fanboy but is pretty much willing to try anything on linux and do a video on it and engages with his audience a good bit. Aside from Discord and YouTube I believe he only uses free and open source software. It's because of him that I finally said fuck Windows and moved to Linux entirely.
I recommend skimming his catalog instead of watching every video unless you just enjoy his general atmosphere.
Also on lbry.tv - https://lbry.tv/@DistroTube:2
 
If Anyone's into chemistry, I highly recommend NileRed.
If you like chemistry try Explosions&Fire. It's chemistry + Australian shitposting.
 
lowspecgamer tweaks ingame settings to make them run better on older or crappier hardware. found this channel back when i used my laptop for gaming and wanted to actually play them at an acceptable framerate. i know most people here probably dont care because you might have an actually decent computer (even i do now) but i still find his videos informative
 
lowspecgamer tweaks ingame settings to make them run better on older or crappier hardware. found this channel back when i used my laptop for gaming and wanted to actually play them at an acceptable framerate. i know most people here probably dont care because you might have an actually decent computer (even i do now) but i still find his videos informative
He also serves as a good proof of concepter. When asked why you would try to get a modern game to run on 10 year old hardware you can always just say... "Why not?" Imo he also shows how much of the bullshit hardware requirements can be and a lot of things should be configurable by the user without much headache but nooooo they don't want their game to be bale to look that ugly.

The AT&T Tech Channel has some real gems. Here's probably the most popular one and it's how I found the rest.

On the Khernigan note, it's probably been mentioned but Computerphile is a great tech channel for computer stuff. Some recurring great personalities and then notable computer wizards are regular guests.
They, along with Numberphile, go into great detail on the Enigma Machine in some videos. Here's the Computerphile playlist for The Enigma Machine and Turing,
I really like NumberPhile's videos on the enigma machine, they go into how it works to explain the combinations of codes. They explain in a separate video how to abuse the flaw to crack it. Not normally a technical channel, however.

Scott Manley, who started with Kerbal videos, has expanded into some realshit and covers some stuff in more detail than you'd normally get. Here's an interesting video that Americans may get a boner from. tl;dw US spy satellites are really, really, really, scary good and it's finally been verified by amateurs.

Here's a guy who spergs about security and is very easy to troll. He knows his stuff and he knows he knows his stuff, so has a bit of an ego that doesn't help him.
Rob Braxman. He may help out anyone who cares about digital privacy in general.

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The shilling is strong in that one.

Gamers Nexus is the boringest shit imaginable but that's what makes it thorough and informative. 'Integrity' is how I would describe them/Burke. Burke is the only person I explicitly trust because if he's wrong there will be a video explaining all the ways they were wrong, how it happened, how they changed their testing, how it affects you the viewer, why it is bad for them etc. Like other videos it will be boring, exhaustive and intensely thorough in examining their mistake or incorrect assumptions.

As a channel they don't know everything but they know the limits of their knowledge and don't stray outside of it in a way that would matter, while at the same time always learning more and refining their methods.

GN is awesome. I see all these people talking about donating to various youtubers, but consider doing it for a channel like Gamers Nexus because honest and sober channels like this one should be elevated on YT.
 

 
Here's something a bit different in terms of "technical" YouTubers, but I find his content interesting:

Bobsdecline. Canadian lineman who makes vlogs of his work orders, calls, and occasional technical explanations on how the power grid works, including what typically causes power outages and what's done to address and promptly fix outages from a lineman's perspective

https://www.youtube.com/c/Bobsdecline/
 
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I'm surprised I haven't seen a mention of Jim over at AdoredTV. Jim is an actual tech journalist, and adheres to journalistic integrity but is also a top notch historian. I am a massive fan of his work to a point I signed up for Patreon to support him. Personally my favorite video is his ray and path tracing video, which I've linked behind the spoiler
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