3: To Google/Youtube: Piss OFF with your frikkin' Google+ crap! I don't want Google+, just leave Youtube how it was already!
I went from being in love with Youtube to totally hating it since they started to screw with the page layout and shoving Google+ down our throats. Forcing people to use G+ might make them look more popular with a higher user count, but it will do little to increase the activity of the overall G+ on the site. To me this seems like a real stupid way to try and compete with Facebook. They just need to forget their social media dreams and stick to what they are good at: Android, Youtube, and Search.
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1) Dave has a lot more patience than I do. I think I would have simply replied in the comments "You're a moron" and went on with the rest of my day, lol
2) I actually do agree that I don't learn a whole lot from teardowns. That said I usually do learn something, but it doesn't vary in how much I learn whether or not it's a modern product or vintage. I do on the other hand usually learn a lot from the repair videos.
3) Dave said "only for entertainment purposes" like it was such a bad thing. There has been multiple times I watched a teardown or other electronics video and didn't learn anything, but was still glad I spent the time watching it. I'm passionate about my electronics hobby, so I actually enjoy a good video on the subject as much as someone else would watching TV or a movie. I don't think it should be required to make sure there is an educational element to every video, sometimes just the "wow, that is real cool" element is enough.
4) I don't think the Fluke calibrator was a good example to defend his point. He says "the design would be exacly the same". While it's true for this product, it wouldn't be for many if not most products. A cell phone for example would have a radically different design than a vintage one. In the Fluke video it was one where I didn't really learn a whole lot, but I still thought the video was amazing. The parts in that thing were pure geek porn. Loved it!
5) One area teardown videos are really helpful to me is they pique my interest in something that was mentioned, next thing you know I'm on Google and I start my adventure down the rabbit hole, and by the end of it I usually learned a lot. An example of that for the Fluke video was this question I asked myself "could you replace the mechanical "sex on a stick" relays with modern solid state relays. By adventure I mean I free flow, so I could start of researching the resistances of relays and 3 hours later there is a jack-o-latern image on my oscilloscope and newly made liquor pouring robot in the kitchen with an option laser attachment.
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