I don't hate him... I just can't listen to him talk without wanting to goad him with a cattleprod to move along to the point.
I watch his videos, but I bump the speed up to 1.25x. He's got good tips for noobs like me and his troubleshooting skills are excellent. I like when he plays with audio gear. The only person that can make RF interesting to me is Shahriar of The Signal Path, when he is in a mood to explain things to non-RF-people.
I also like FesZ Electronics since he has interesting topics, and also Kasyan TV since he has limited resources and yet is always making useful things. He's one of the few guys that can make SMPS interesting to me. And who doesn't love EEVblog? Can't get enough of Fundamentals Fridays. It was watching Dave that got me into electronics enough to start making monthly payments to ebay, AliExpress, and Digi-Key.
EDIT:
Still no word from USPS as to where my Digi-Key package is. USPS tracking is as useless as tits on a bull when they fail to deliver the package then mark it "Delivered" on their web site. Either that, or there is a very disappointed mail thief. "Ooh, it says 'electronics' on the package!"
USPS tracking is more of "an optimistic projection" of your package's progress through the innards of a Postal Service deliberately disemboweled by the previous regime at the demand of its corporate overlords that there would be an excuse to privatize it completely. The fact that sack of shit is
still PostBitch-General is all the proof you need that this admin will be aboot as effective at real change as the Obama admin.
This I know from personal experience, living within driving distance of the sorting center that serves the entire Southeast corner of the nation; it is completely normal for a package to move through the entire system, showing incremental progress along the way,
until it is actually scanned for the first time since it was tendered when the carrier puts it in the day's line of deliveries. it was not unusual for me to see them making deliveries as late as 8PM; of course, the usurious contracts they made with Amazon and Wally World Marketplace meant that regular deliveries took third place at best.
This means that at some point the carrier
has to pull the plug on the day's deliveries, done or not. It is then SOP for them to mark
all packages as delivered to keep their metrics from tanking, and make a "best effort" attempt at actually completing the delivery ASAP; whereupon
the "delivered" package magically appears in your mailbox the next business day or day after that.Honestly; given the hours these people
are forced to work and the utterly psychotic workloads that are demanded of them, it's no surprise they run out of GAF halfway through the week. I doubt I could last a month doing it.
Put the blame where it belongs:
the sociopathic drive in all things business to not pay a person for doing a job. This particular flavor of bullshit has infected every aspect of modern life.
mnem