I've loved Technology Connections ever since I saw his riveting hour long video on dishwashing detergent. I don't even have a dishwasher.
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WTF, I ain't watching an hour long video on a stupid fridge! I'll just watch the first few minutes and see what's up.....
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One hour later.....
Okay, that was really interesting. I really love this channel.
Me at 11pm: why on earth would I watch a long video deep diving into obsolete incandescent headlights?
Me at 7am: hey did you know that headlights used to be so standard you could just drop in a generic replacement and.........
I love his videos, especially the video about his toaster. I've actually spent time trying to find that exact toaster at yard sales
His videos are so always random but somehow so entertaining and peaceful no matter what completely random thing he decides to talk about. My man could explain the mechanical differences between industrial farming equipment or something and I’d eat that shit up 100% without any questions.
My favorite is when he releases videos around weekends so I can spend my saturday/sunday morning watching it with a nice cup of coffee.
His videos honestly give off the same vibes as mythbusters and other of those random science tv shows of the mid to late 2000s. I feel like if mythbusters still aired new episodes he would fit right in as a regular guest.
There's not a Technology Connections video I won't watch. Always makes the seemingly mundane absolutely fascinating.
As a European his videos are sometimes so funny :)
Here in europe we have two kind of fridges: American Style and the showed one (but with the freezer at the bottom). American style is this big bulky fridge that breaks quickly and costs a ton of money, most people use this style. It's just the norm and they work reliable for decades, while also being more energy efficient.
It's also important to note that food doesn't get bad at 8°C (which Alec states in his video), storing food at 8°C is also the norm here in Europe. And I guess using this style of fridge more often in America would also make a lot of sense for most people.
I can see one simple reason why the american fridge with it's self-defrosting feature makes a lot of sense in some American regions: Climate. In humid regions like Florida, the showed style of fridge would just need to be constantly defrosted. Which would be a huge pain in the ass obviously. And in all other southern-american regions where it never really gets cold it's also a pain in the ass to manually defrost a fridge. For all regions where the temperature goes close to freezing temperatures, defrosting is not a big deal. You just need to put your refrigerated or frozen stuff outside for a few hours, defrost the fridge and put everything back inside. The frozen stuff doesn't even get remotely thawn and doing it once a year is more than enough.
8C is about 46F.
Right from the USDA government agency.
Bacteria grows more rapidly in food starting at about 40F.
I think I'll trust the food safety agency over some random pretentious guy on Lemmy thanks very much.
Sorry for only telling how it is in europe. Here in Germany the desired fridge temperature according to state guidelines should be 7-8°C and that's what I'm commenting. Just pointing out that the differences are stunning and funny.
I don't think that ~8°C thing is a universal "European" thing. I'm Finnish and I've always kept my fridge around 5°C, and the food safety authority here recommends 2 – 6°C
"So I bought five of these things" lol.
Oh this guy is my inner spirit nerd.
Honestly, the best part about this channel is watching the guy be extremely American.
His fascination at an absolutely run of the mill entry level fridge that everybody outside Muricaland has owned at least once is delightful.
Oh, also, he's on Mastodon here @TechConnectify in case you guys didn't know that.
No, this is an absolutely bog standard low-end fridge here. He's just interested in clever engineering, no matter how mundane it is. His toaster videos are an excellent example of this.
I still lecture people on the correct detergent to use and to do a prewash because on him. 😂
Oh how I love Technology Connections. He makes the perfect kind of content for me.
Hour long of TC talking about a fridge, you had me at Fridge.
TBH "hour long of technology connections..." is probably sufficient.
I love Tech Connections. Unnecessarily long deep dives, but that’s the kind of content I absolutely appreciate. His stuff is a treat that helps to highlight the rabbit holes that can be found in the mundane.
Really made me understand why my own fridge (and especially the freezer part) is this bad. Bless this channel
I watched that wayyyy longer than I thought I would, like most other people here lol
But it was still disappointing that he just hand-waved the two good fridges already having cold stuff (that's when I stopped watching). Anyone from somewhere with constant hurricanes knows that thermal mass is important when keeping a fridge at temp
ah, my favourite videos on youtube. long rants from technology connections and other similar channels. so soothing even though i often have no idea what is happening
I love this guy, one of my few favorite YouTube channels and subscriptions. Anything he fixates on is suddenly interesting.
This was an amazing TC video and honestly I love when he goes on deep dive tangents like this. :D
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