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@Daojoan @encthenet aka “See me do $something I haven’t done (in a long time/ ever before)

@Daojoan
I feel this. Tried to watch part of a 3h video on master class mobile phone networks, and there was so much I already knew that if it was a long blog post I could easily scroll past the parts I knew already saving me a lot of time. Instead I just bailed on the video.

(Probably doing videos for those sweet ad dollars.)

@Daojoan Videos are the worst for learning things like coding. How do copy some sample code? Or do some training things with answers.

@Daojoan I prefer my tutorials in written form as well. Video is a terrible medium for tutorials. It's a feeling I also get from audio books in general: it's just too slow compared to reading.

@Daojoan Why I put that shit in NotebookLM so you don't have to watch them.

@Daojoan

Well, videos are good for bicycle repair, usually.

Not so good for coding. Why do I need to see someone type something on screen?

When you find the bit of info that you want inside the video, screen capture the important bits, and make a note in your favorite note-taking app (like #Joplin ) so you won't have to do it again.

@Daojoan the top-shelf content from @piccalilli is worth checking out.

@Daojoan
Funnily enough, I was ranting similarly earlier today. It’s so rude to waste so much of your audience’s time just because you can’t be bothered to write a text version.
https://mastodon.social/@KimSJ/116113853910864608

@Daojoan @pteryx And when you do find a written guide it’s either crammed with extra garbage for SEO or written by an LLM.

@Daojoan Absolutely! Good God! So sad honestly! I'm glad though that the 100 Days of SwiftUI is still text-based along with the video, but still... I know what you mean!

@Daojoan
Too right. Video guides are only one pillar of (potential) education.

@Daojoan I feel that and I am glad that we convinced a bunch of people to write tutorials: https://oemof-solph.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials.html

@Daojoan You are onto the truth. I love the convenience and art of video/film. However, "educational film and tv" are time consuming and frequently/usually unclear. While I use maps for navigation instead of a list of directions, I much prefer a guide with good clear drawings to a video tutorial. The latter are to keep viewers online while data harvesting. It's the tyranny of the filmmaker to control how viewers are fed information. As kids, we mocked "educational films" as time out.

@Daojoan I swear I'm constantly running into a theme, were something that's better off as text is made a video and then some complicated disassembly tutorial again is in text form that is so vague most of the time I have no idea what's been referred to, especially when it's put through a machine translator first.

@Daojoan

I remember, that I had to find a certain function on a device I own.

Explaining where to find it, takes two simple sentences in English, maybe 200 bytes.

The only thing, I found on the net: A multi-minute #video. Megabytes wasted. Let's burn the planet.

Next level: #AI generated #tutorial videos.