When I use the internet to learn, I don’t want to have to spend 2 minutes watching an advert, then try to decipher an accent I can barely understand whilst a 15 year old speed runs the task whilst seemingly skipping crucial steps in a video.
I want the steps written down. Maybe with diagrams.
I’m old. Learning is hard enough.
And Discord is not a substitute for documentation.
I’d like to learn the game engine Godot but all the lessons are videos. It’s much harder to learn in the livingroom and write code when you’re learning from a video
Preach. A rant I’ve made before. I hate YouTube. I hate having to pause, and rewind trying to catch a view of some lousy camera angle of the thing being done.
Yeah, you can find useful stuff, but 98% of even the useful stuff is i.e. a 15 minute video, which goes like: intro, talk about sponsors, talking about everything else they have on video. Talk about themselves. Talk about what they did last week. Make sure to visibly finger point at everything in frame (fuck, I hate this. It’s the unnecessary “red circle” around the no-shit-Sherlock I know what I’m supposed to be looking at thing). Introduce buddy, point at thing they’re working on. Bullshit with buddy, talk about what buddy does. Talk about thing they’re doing today. Talk about all the different ways to do thing that aren’t relevant to the thing you clicked on the video for. Show all the parts they’re using for thing and where they got them. Now grab camera and quickly do the two or three things needed to fix thing, takes less than 5 minutes, but it would have taken less than 60 seconds had fixer not stopped to bullshit with buddy and, repeat themselves, and point at more shit. Now they step away from the job, bullshit more, sponsors more, their videos more, camera at themselves more.
The main thing I think I despise is that I’m being talked at. And I mean that it isn’t someone teaching and explaining the how-to, why, and things to watch out for, it’s someone who wants their face in frame talking at me about stuff I don’t care about because the video is about them, not the thing I clicked to find the answer about.
Ad space rules, so longer videos = more ad space, makers get paid more for longer videos with ad space, therefore they make longer videos full of garbage to get pushed to the top by the search algorithm.
Gone are the text-posts-as-a-knowledge-service. In have come the videos as a profit for the maker that necessitate forcing the viewer to watch a 15 minute video for a 2 minute fix.
Ahh yes, the 15 min video that should have been 3 bullet points.
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Ok, I don’t know about you guys, but back when I worked for a company, we used Slack for communication. Slack is great for most things, but they just don’t let you set your status to be permanently online. If you step away for a coffee or a washroom break and don’t come back fast enough, there’s a good chance your boss will see it. Unfortunately, not everyone has an understanding boss. And, if you’re one of those people with a minute-counting pencil pusher for a boss, you’ll know how bad it can be. Luckily for you, there is a way that you can bypass that pesky Slack snitching.
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I even hate the sound of the voice my head made up to read this in
What if all text tutorials became this? Recipe websites are already this way.
The worst part about video tutorials: you can’t CTRL + F, search, specific things. You can’t jump straight to your problem. The best you can do is skip to a point where it may be what you actually need to know.
For game walkthroughs, you could just ctrl-f the spot you needed to know about. On a recipe, ctrl-f “boil at” or “bake at” to check the correct temperature and time. On programming, ctrl-f the function name or part of the line you suppose might be where your problem is.
Video? Gotta remember the fucking timestamps. Google doesn’t help by pushing youtube at every opportunity and downplaying every small blog, either.
auto-transcripting tech has come a LONG way. I use it all the time for referencing things I’ve heard in a podcast and want to share or w/e
I have considered making an app that converts videos to core text and key screenshots.
Do it
They can’t, they have to watch a video tutorial on how to make a software before.
And the text tutorials that we do get are either padded out with bullshit or written by a fucking LLM
I blame cooking blogs for introducing this bloat.
“First let me tell you a little about my relationshio with cinnamon… It all started 40 years ago whilst I was…”
