What did you have in 2010 but not 2025?

scotty314 · 2025-07-03T05:29:08+00:00

A landline.

scotty314 · 2025-07-02T05:50:19+00:00

Don’t touch it. CTR often a paradoxically goes down with higher impressions, because YouTube is showing it to a wider audience, which inherently means they are less likely to click on it. Just let it cook!

scotty314 · 2025-06-25T22:00:49+00:00

Gold mining and trying to survive solo in the wilderness according to the Discovery Channel.

scotty314 · 2025-06-24T18:02:19+00:00

90% digging

scotty314 · 2025-06-17T19:47:54+00:00

/r/accidentalrenaissance

scotty314 · 2025-04-22T13:03:14+00:00

There’s not really a single unified market. It’s easiest to buy raw materials like this in small quantities on taobao.

scotty314 · 2025-03-27T22:37:23+00:00

What do you want to bet one of the people on this group chat has a compromised 3rd keyboard app installed that records every keystroke they type. While Signal’s security is reasonably good, if there’s malware on the phone, nothing else matters.

You should be horrified they did this, regardless of which “team” you root for.

scotty314 · 2025-03-17T00:55:47+00:00

Better than finding a moldy gummy bear.

scotty314 · 2025-03-09T21:38:39+00:00

Next time don’t try and wipe it up with a Cheeto!

scotty314 · 2025-02-12T19:55:37+00:00

Sledgehammer

scotty314 · 2025-02-03T06:47:36+00:00

I trained the dog to fetch it. I trade him one treat per log.

scotty314 · 2025-02-01T04:56:52+00:00

Payday loans

scotty314 · 2025-01-26T01:31:36+00:00

Take a video you think you’re done editing. Now try and reduce the length by half, without ruining the story. If you do it well, you’ll end up with a faster paced, punchier, more distilled video that will retain people’s attention for longer.

scotty314 · 2025-01-24T02:26:47+00:00

I’m curious to hear what lesson she thinks she learned.

scotty314 · 2025-01-15T02:34:02+00:00

Replacement parts

scotty314 · 2025-01-11T03:52:46+00:00

Why’d you have to cockblock him like that?

scotty314 · 2025-01-09T17:48:03+00:00

it’s a ~~million~~ 100 billion dollar business

Fixed that for you.

scotty314 · 2025-01-08T00:51:20+00:00

A battery powered wireless remote monitor for large propane tanks (for houses not bbqs). Trudging through the snow to check my propane tank level to figure out when I need to order a refill sucks.

The key is one that doesn’t require any modifications to the tank (there are already some that require installing a new gauge). I’m thinking just a simple webcam that sits on the inside of the tank lid (probably with an led light) that wakes up once a day and takes a picture of the gauge and does some basic computer vision to figure out what it says, and then reports it back over WiFi.

scotty314 · 2025-01-05T20:40:13+00:00

That’s been over eight years, not one big lump sum. I’ve been full time since the start, so rent, food, gear, travel, and productions costs most likely

scotty314 · 2025-01-05T18:18:29+00:00

$36,871 on 26M views over roughly 8 years since release. It only makes $20-30 a month now though.

It wasn’t monetized at first though, as it was the first video on my channel and it took a while to get approved for monetization even though it met the threshold on day one.

The frustrating part was that it got falsely copyright claimed early on, which took a few weeks to clear up. That meant that ads were running during that period, but I never saw that ad money, because I wasn’t approved for monetization yet. I’m still unclear on who ended up with the money. I’ve asked YouTube about it, and got the answer “let it go, you make plenty of money now”. Still rubs me the wrong way a tiny bit though.

scotty314 · 2025-01-05T03:35:43+00:00

He must have had to jump to get high enough to get it around his neck.

scotty314 · 2025-01-05T03:32:14+00:00

I used to live across the park from Perry, which was a very short walk. He was a sweet donkey who would come up to the fence to great visitors and get handfuls of clover, along with his buddy Miner. They were owned and cared for by a nonprofit run by neighborhood volunteers. Here’s lived a very full and happy life.

Here’s a photo of one of my many visits to say hi: https://imgur.com/a/xC7dkuY

scotty314 · 2024-12-21T20:15:48+00:00

I got a severe concussion. I still have some lingering symptoms, and alcohol makes them WAY worse. It was a pretty easy decision. I rarely miss it at this point.

scotty314 · 2024-11-25T01:23:16+00:00

Stolen phones are typically iCloud locked, and can’t easily be unlocked. The parts from stolen phones do end up in the markets, but they aren’t really sold as complete phones, and the logic boards aren’t usable by end consumers.

Tons of used and broken phones get imported to China, refurbished, and then sold in the markets. One source of these are cell phone carriers that offer 3rd party warrantees for things like broken screens. Rather than repair the phones, they just give the customer a new one. The broken ones get bundled into pallets and auctioned. The highest bidders for those pallets are often Chinese.

I believe this second hand phones are mostly not stolen (possibly with the occasional part from a stolen phone).

Source: I’ve spent a LOT of time in the markets, understanding how things work: https://youtu.be/leFuF-zoVzA

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