Tech related YouTube channels - List of helpful content creators for those who prefer visual learning.

Disco Inferno

Disco Inferno

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Feel free to make suggestions or add links. Or tell me if I did something wrong :)
For now, I'm just posting the ones I can remember off the top of my head.
I'll be regularly updating as well.

Normie shit
  • ThioJoe is a more tolerable Linus. Good place to start if you want to learn more about Windows and other basics
  • Speaking of Linus, he has a media empire. I think him and his flunkies have a combined total of 7 channels + a podcast.
  • PowerCert Animated is a great channel. Gives good visual and in-dept breakdowns. Also has videos about the compTIA A+ and Network+ certification exams
  • EasyTechs has good videos that include trouble shooting, upgrading, HDD/SSD/NVMe management and more.
Privacy Focused
  • The Hated One is one of the better privacy content creators. Definitely worth your time.
  • Mental Outlaw is a personal favorite of mine.
  • Majority of his videos are hot garbage. But he rarely post good videos regarding privacy.
Script Kiddie garbage
Before anything- Don't be a fucking idiot and do something stupid. If you do, there's a chance you'll brick your entire HDD/SSD like i did.
That being said, these videos are for educational purposes only.

  • He might have the eyes of a serial killer, but Null Bytes makes really good/educational content.
  • When he's not being a pajeet version of cr1tkal- Mutahar uploads a lot of good shit about virtual machines and viruses.
  • LiveOverflow makes content about hax competitions exploits
  • HackerSploit is my personal favorite. He covers a wide verity of subjects with good to decent detail
  • It's a real shame that he's an insufferable faggot because NetworkChuck makes -really- good and informative content.
Entertainment
  • Jim Browning is funnier than KitBoga while Malcolm Merlyn is a more malicious than both.
  • LowSpecGamer makes videos about games running on the lowest settings possible. It's actually pretty impressive.
  • ModernVintageGamer makes videos about modding, emulators, refurbishing and more.
  • NikTek makes amusing meme videos that are usually under a minute long. Most of them involve shitting on Nvidia and AMD dick riding.
 
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Louis Rossman is good if you are into macbook repairs and watching a manlet rant about New York. Eli the Computer Guy should be avoided at all costs unless you want to watch something that stopped being about tech 7 years ago and has devolved into near schizo rants.
 
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He's right about Apple being cunts, though. I got shafted by the genius bar once and vowed never to buy one of their products again.
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How did you get shafted by the Genius bar? I always go with my boomer-in-laws to the Apple store because they don't know shit and I've fortunately never had anything happen yet.
 
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How did you get shafted by the Genius bar? I always go with my boomer-in-laws to the Apple store because they don't know shit and I've fortunately never had anything happen yet.
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They tried to tell me the item was water damaged, which it definitely was not and tried to upsell a refurbished replacement. I was able to go elsewhere where they confirmed it wasn't water damage, managed to recover my data (which was my primary concern) and fixed it for less than the cost of the refurbished replacement.
 
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theshep said:
They tried to tell me the item was water damaged, which it definitely was not and tried to upsell a refurbished replacement. I was able to go elsewhere where they confirmed it wasn't water damage and managed to recover my data (which was my primary concern) and fix it for less than the cost of the refurbished replacement.
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Ah yeah I never get refurbished apple equipment mostly because their build quality is not meant for long term use, and being that you can't replace individual components easily, there's no telling when something fucks up and shorts out due to age which screws the whole machine.

Refurbished could mean anything from just opening it up and going once over with an air duster, to replacing individual components on the board itself. It entirely depends on the skill and knowledge of the person who's doing the repairs and that in itself is a crap shoot.
 
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theshep said:
They tried to tell me the item was water damaged, which it definitely was not and tried to upsell a refurbished replacement. I was able to go elsewhere where they confirmed it wasn't water damage, managed to recover my data (which was my primary concern) and fixed it for less than the cost of the refurbished replacement.
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Yeah, if you ever watched Rossman's videos, he talks about how Macbooks have water damage sensors in them where they change color if they touch water, except they naturally change color due to humidity, and the genius bar is trained to say it's water damaged if those sensors changed color even if it's obviously not water damaged.
They also simply aren't trained in anything repair related whatsoever, they have the same training as a mcdonalds employee, just smile and get money out of people.
 
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The Fool said:
Yeah, if you ever watched Rossman's videos, he talks about how Macbooks have water damage sensors in them where they change color if they touch water, except they naturally change color due to humidity, and the genius bar is trained to say it's water damaged if those sensors changed color even if it's obviously not water damaged.
They also simply aren't trained in anything repair related whatsoever, they have the same training as a mcdonalds employee, just smile and get money out of people.
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Yep, that was the nub of the issue for me. Not to get too into the details, but I was working offshore in a humid environment for quite a while and that was likely the reason for their assessment of the water damage. (I explained that to the guy and he was adamant it was water damage.)

The guy literally spent all of about 3 minutes making that assessment. As I said, it was later confirmed by a non-apple person that it was not damaged by water, but by a totally different issue (non-water related).

I'm not totally technically illiterate and wised up to what was going on, hence me telling the guy thanks, but no thanks. I'm sure they have many other customers who just blindly go along with whatever the 'genius' is saying and hand over the money. That one interaction alone seriously soured my view of the company.
 
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lowspecgamer: he makes games look like garbage for maximum framerates on lower end devices. found him while looking up how to make rise of the tomb raider run better on my laptop. it didnt help me because i didnt have nvidia graphics on it, but the video was informative nonetheless and i stuck to his content even after upgrading to a relatively decent pc later on
example video:
 
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MVG is mostly practical stuff about consoles and hacking them but he was also one of the OG Xbox hackers and he occasionally talks about programming for them.
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He also shows himself porting things and explains the process of porting something to a console with a voice over in a 15 minute video. He's also employed by NightDive Studios if I remember things correctly.

I initially dismissed him because of his looks and voice, there are many stupid clickbaity youtube channels with idiots talking about things they don't understand. I was completely wrong.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
He also shows himself porting things and explains the process of porting something to a console with a voice over in a 15 minute video. He's also employed by NightDive Studios if I remember things correctly.

I initially dismissed him because of his looks and voice, there are many stupid clickbaity youtube channels. I was completely wrong.
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MVG ported "Postal: Classic & Uncut" to the Switch a while back too. Then he helped someone else adapt that work to the Vita.

I'll add another couple of game/hacking related YT channels I like while I am here:

LiveOverflow is a channel focused on security and exploitation. His best videos are what I would describe as walkthroughs or Let's Plays for "Capture the Flag" contests.

Here is the video in the series for the 2016 Riscure CTF which anyone can follow along at home with a $5 Arduino clone.

I'll change speed here and shill for a channel more focused on reviews. Taki Udon does reviews and extensive testing on handheld gaming hardware. He appears to have some kind of connections with the Chinese manufacturers and is able to score interviews and insider info.

He used to focus almost entirely on low end hardware like the RG350 and other sub-$100 Ingenic powered handhelds. Taki's recent Videos are more often about the newer high-end x64 based handhelds and UMPC's like the Ryzen based Aya Neo (but he doesn't neglect the interesting low-end devices).
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
I legit don't understand why Kiwis hate Linus so much.

Anyway, my recommendation is Computerphile where they just go over the history of programming and software.
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I've tried watching his videos, but there's something about him that I just can't stand. I don't know how to explain it, he just seems smug.
 
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