@dclr42 YouTube = 19 years?

Our old friend... Gotta admit (to myself at the very least) that there has been tons of great videos that were great and life changing as if the person was there teaching me.

Though I don't dismiss the wasteful stuff or even energy waste itself - but even these things have got better for example not loading all video stream until needed, allowing link URL's so person who is clicking can start from any specific timecode)

Or even the limits of distance-learning has (though I'll be honest local solutions or how is still beyond me or borderline seems impossible to create or join anything)

Other purposes YT has been great:

Growing things instant tutorial (and then doing it in the garden), house ideas / insights to how to build things, specific-model mobile repair and many specific searches. Similar to any topic or category in it's use for others too.

I think it is uniquely rewarding if you can be a bit careful to get a lot from it with previous paragraph as a kind of disclaimer.

So not the chain clicking distracting Hollywood type random) and just pressing play for things you want to or use 🔍 search only 🔍

And in terms of # of years - not everyone (including me) was using it that long - perhaps just half that more day to day / hardcore (nobody / not everyone was hardcore from day 1 to count it as 19 years for each person).

Hope that make sense and eases the pain a bit better 🔥 😄 🔥

❓ A question might be "what didn't you get out of it?" ❓

Especially now there is Ad-free version of Ytb via Invidious to cut out bad computer stuff from using it!

Do you know it / Have you tried it this?

https://redirect.invidious.io/