why do you want to do that?

I mine mostly because I like the technology, and have (already paid for) CPU cycles spare. Plus, doing it without a pool is a bit like playing the lottery.

local monero node and done, no?

Aha! I have no such thing as far as I’m aware, since I use the mymonero wallet.

I should run a node, and in the “pool” section of the xmrig config, point to localhost?

Youtube channels. A simple timeline of uploads, only showing chanels I care about.