<story><title>I built a $5k Raspberry Pi server (yes, it&apos;s ridiculous)</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/i-built-5000-raspberry-pi-server-yes-its-ridiculous</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rym_</author><text>I get so frustrated with the idiotic thumbnails on youtube video these days. I am sure it&amp;#x27;s all optimized for the maximum number of clicks&amp;#x2F;views but if I see a still that looks the way it does at the bottom of this page I generally just don&amp;#x27;t watch it on principle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geerlingguy</author><text>Believe me, I had a nice discussion yesterday with my sister (who helped me take pictures for the thumbnail), and we both agreed it&amp;#x27;s one of the dumbest things about current YouTube...&lt;p&gt;The thing is, from all my own A&amp;#x2F;B testing, a face vs. no face will automatically get 20-30% more views (all else equal). And an exaggerated face, a bit more than that.</text></comment>
<story><title>I built a $5k Raspberry Pi server (yes, it&apos;s ridiculous)</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/i-built-5000-raspberry-pi-server-yes-its-ridiculous</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rym_</author><text>I get so frustrated with the idiotic thumbnails on youtube video these days. I am sure it&amp;#x27;s all optimized for the maximum number of clicks&amp;#x2F;views but if I see a still that looks the way it does at the bottom of this page I generally just don&amp;#x27;t watch it on principle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>athorax</author><text>The youtube channel veritasium did a pretty interesting video on the phenomenon&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>