YT Tech Channel Recommendations

This guy never lets me down: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
- For once ads saved me
  
  Ah I would've gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling ads.
- XcQ not for you
- i hope he never gives me up

- Michael Reeves is the special kind of wacky where I'd equally believe "he just paid for a brand new orphanage" and "he just accidentally burned down the orphanage". Love it
- I’d also suggest adding Colin Furze and Hacksmith to the “wacky builds” creators. The Secret Santa things between them and a few other creator channels are a great way to find even more.
  
  Also Tom Stanton and DIY Perks
- Can you comment on Louis Rossman ? First time I’ve heard someone say that. I’m curious to know if people really think that of him.
  
  I do get the sense from being a bit of a long time viewer that he's a bit up his own ass, especially as his channel has moved more towards a talking head style, but he gives me the same vibes as a single issue voter concerned only with right to repair. But when called out he seems to take criticism much better than most (especially LTT) and is willing to put his money where his mouth is. However, I only semi-regularly watch his videos so ymmv

TheLinuxExperiment does really nice video about tech news, better than TechLinked in every ways.
- +1 for TheLinuxExperiment, most other linux channels have a paranoid vibe to them but this guy's cool

Jayz2Cents is awful. Please don't watch that stuff. They're so long winded and lacking in... actual information. Add Digital Foundry, Hardware Canucks.
- So a good replacement for LLT then? /s. But seriously, that's not what his channel is about.
  
  Hostile work environment stuff aside, I prefer LTTs content to J2C, even with the random factual errors.
- Jayz2Cents used to be good, but man the quality really has fallen
  
  I stopped watching Jay when... I think it was the 2080ti came out for over 1000 dollars? and he basically told people to stop complaining and just buy it.

My two absolute favourites right now
Bringus Studios - this is pretty close to classic LTT episodes (he did "I bought a SEGA PC?!?!?!!" before Linus did) and often involves trying to upgrade hardware that wasn't designed to be upgraded or installing software on systems not meant for it (turning a PS4 into a steam deck for example) all with a delightful layer of jank to it So kinda like the videos with Jake
A little more different but equally brilliant channel is
MattKC - his most popular video is him trying to get a game to fit into a qr code (brilliant) but also extends to him buying and fixing a Wii he bought for 1$ in Japan or trying to build the fastest Windows 98 compatible PC and modding old consoles So kinda like the videos with Alex

Digital Foundry does really great deep-dives on the software side of things. A channel like GamersNexus is great for getting a sense for how a new CPU or GPU stacks up to other models. DF is great for looking at game performance in a specific title, and which settings to tweak for optimized performance with various graphics cards.
Edit: and they do the same for major console titles, plus cross-platform and cross-gen comparisons.
- I second this recommendation. The level of detail they go into is insane. I also like their retrospective vids they do from time to time.

Cathode Ray Dude
- Technology Connections too
- Only recently discovered CRD, but he's quickly becoming my favorite channel. He's doing the exact kind of deep dives into obscure tech topics that i love.
- Second this

I love Derbauer.

For more of the entertainment cool shit side of LTT, I love DIY Perks. He does a lot of really cool techy builds

RandomGamingInHD is pretty neat. Like seeing people push real budget stuff to its absolute limits. LowSpecGamer used to be my go to for that, but it seems he completely changed thr channels directions and purged the old videos.
LGR and 8-bit Guy both do a lot of cool stuff with old and obsolete hardware.
- +1 for RGiHD
  Not the most in depth performance metrics, but gives a good look at what kind of performance you can get out of older/cheaper hardware.

Brodie Robertson for Linux/Software content.
- Another +1 for Brodie. We need more Linux content! I got to do an interview with him recently and that was a lot of fun.
- +1 for brodie

I can't believe no one mentioned MrMobile. I really enjoy his format and editing style. He mostly does phone and watch reviews, but sometimes sprinkle in laptops, and his When Phones were Fun series were awesome.
LowSpecGamer originally does what the channel name suggests, low spec hardware reviews and game on them with jank methods. However, he has since privated his previous videos, and transitioned to history and stories behind tech products.
One other channel that is more to the side of tech "explanation" is Technology Connections. The subjects of his videos are not necessarily "tech" we see in tech channels, but more appliance tech and the history or how it works. His channel is caption friendly too!

Hardware Canucks for other Canadian tech news
- Hardware Canucks is very good for peripheral reviews. Haven’t watched them in a hot minute since I’ve been happy with my audio and mouse/keyboard setup, but they go the extra step of doing things like showing recordings from different headsets and how well a mouse glides.
- Something Canadian, that's refreshing. It always annoyed me the LTT was Canadian but always put prices in American..

TechMoan is always a fun watch
- Same with the 8-Bit Guy and LGR.

Level1techs, Chris Titus, Servethehome, Craft computing, Lawrence systems, 8-bit guy, look mom no computer, Mark Rober, Austin Evans, mkbhd, ijustine, jerryrigeverything, technology connections.
Those I could come up with relatively fast without checking my subscriptions in freetube.
Also some rocket tech because rockets are cool:
Pbs space, Xyla Foxlin, air command rockets, everyday astronaut, Scott Manley, Marcus House
- i can't express how much i love technology connections
  
  Technology connections is literally the best YouTube channel ever.
- PBS space time is on its whole other league. It's more theoretical astrophysics than rocket science.
  
  You're thinking of pbs spacetime.
  I mixed up a bit, it's bps.space, Joe Barnard and his work on model rocketry

Mental Outlaw for Linux/privacy stuff for sure. Dude has some hot takes and has been focusing a bit more on his farm at the moment but he's got some good topics

I love OptimumTech. Mostly focused on SFF builds and peripherals and setup-minimalism. However Ali has a very relaxing voice and entirely drama free
- Definitely Optimum Tech. Love all of the small form factor builds and his coverage of mice and keyboards is also great.

I like Dawid does tech stuff as well
https://www.youtube.com/@DawidDoesTechStuff
- Dawid is great, I love his sense of humor.

Optimum Tech is nice

Cathode Ray Dude and Techmoan if you want to see retro tech.
It's crazy how much artistry went into mechanical engineering of tape decks and stuff like that before circuit boards and components were small enough that everything is uncreative.

TechAltar is the best one

Some of my favorites (that I have not seen listed here yet)
Snazzy Labs
TechAltar
The Friday Checkout (alternative to Techlinked)

Tech Iceberg and RandomGaminginHD
(What can I say, the British accent adds like 50 points to my rubric

Phil’s Computer Lab if you want to see someone reviewing DOS, Win9x and XP era hardware.

2kliksphilip, RandomGaminginHD, DIY Perks, der8auer, and KrisFix-Germany are all neat tech/gaming oriented channels, but obviously none of them cover gaming/tech as a whole like LTT does.

Here's a small Brazilian tech channel that I really like
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2r9ork83kGjXp5uP9cu71Q

Louis Rossmann https://m.youtube.com/@rossmanngroup

You have the two best already… GN for quality reviews and Jayz for “We’re making a thing today, let’s see what happens.”

Dawid does tech stuff: https://youtube.com/@DawidDoesTechStuff
- Would be my recommendation as well! I love this guy. Might be a bit too shallow content wise but for me it's very entertaining.

I'll recommend Power Cert Animated Videos, it's really good to grasp the basics on some topics in my opinion.

ct3003

Hacksmith is pretty cool, I dont know if you consider them "tech".
- thanks, i already know their channel, wouldn't have sprung into my mind :D
  
  Also stuff made here, high quality channel with sparse upload schedule, kind of like mark robert.

thank you all for the recommendations. i have a lot to watch now :)

Rather specific to VR, but SadlyItsBradley

- The host is cool and I vibe with him, but the channel is under LMG my dude.