Stuff I Watch and Listen To
YouTube
- Computers
- LinusTechTips
- Level1Techs
- GamersNexus
- ComputerPhile
- TechTechPotato (Dr. Ian Cutress)
- Engineering
- SmarterEveryDay
- StuffMadeHere
- Colin Furze
- Practical Engineering
- Electrical
- GreatScott
- ElectroBoom
- BigCliveDotCom
- EEVBlog
- Science
- Veritasium
- Steve Mould
- SciShow
- PeriodicVideos
- Numberphile
- General
- Tom Scott
- Wendover Productions/Half as Interesting
- “Science and Technology”
- Michael Reeves
- William Osman
- Allen Pan
I still use the old OPML RSS feed I made from my subscriptions to watch these. YouTube used to have a feature to get an OPML file of your subscriptions, and each channel also had automatically generated RSS feeds. It looks like this is now gone. See https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/l3x6e8/youtube_subscriptions_opml_2021/. I used to use newsbeuter/newsboat with macros made to play the videos, but I have used a variety of other players. I also used Hooktube until that stopped working. I think Invidious community instances are still online, but have limited functionality.
Documentaries
- The Nature of Things
- This works over gem.cbc.ca and cbc.ca/player. The former used to be 1080p with surround sound at 6 Mbit/s DASH streams, whereas the latter was 720p HLS streams (muxed single stream vs separate audio/video for DASH). It looks like both are capped at 720p as of March 2022.
Podcasts
- Safety Third
- Darknet Diaries
- 99% Invisible
- Hello Internet
- WAN Show (do we count this as a podcast?)
All of these are available through RSS, and will work with akgregator, sharerss or mpd.
CBC
- CBC Radio 2
- https://gist.github.com/nevillepark/0dc1d0809185d420fd4004d0783feb8d to open CBC Radio 1 and 2 streams from VLC player. These might be geo-restricted, they work fine in Toronto though for the legacy MP3 links. They used to be here https://www.cbc.ca/liveradio/snippets/menuAllStreams.html but it looks like that page doesn't have them anymore. You can add the first m3u file I linked to MPD though to add it as an internet radio station.
- Quirks and Quarks (CBC)
- I just use the RSS feed here https://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/quirksaio.xml