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How I spend less time on YouTube

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Re: How I spend less time on YouTube

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Post by dncornholio »

outside1234 wrote: post #140
dncornholio wrote: post #124

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Always text over video. When people say they prefer video, they don't know better, haven't actually been learning anything or are extremely lazy. For example, to do a gradient in Gimp, you should know a few shortcode keys. Now how do I look up which key to use again? Load the video and keep fiddling with the player until I hit the right moment where he explains this little detail? It's extremely annoying to look up a…

I think it is an "AND" vs. "OR" thing. Your examples are great for those use cases, but there are others where having the long form is really good. For example, Jon Gjengset's Rust series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O0Nt9qY_vo

You are right, a tutorial is even better if it has text AND a video :) laracasts does this extremely well.

Re: How I spend less time on YouTube

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Post by bena »

mkaic wrote: post #116
bena wrote: post #45

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This has been shown to be not true many times over. Different subjects need to be taught in different ways, but there are optimal ways to present information that works for everyone. No one is a "visual learner", there are topics that are best presented in a visual format.

Anecdotal counterargument: I am a visual learner. For almost all topics I learn about, watching a video is by far the most effective, fastest, and most impactful way for me to grasp and remember new concepts. A very large part of my education in math, science, machine learning, music theory, filmmaking, screenwriting, visual effects, history, and chemistry was video lectures/essays/content. I agree that the famous "t…

This is a self report of a self assessment. So the most unreliable form of reporting coupled with the most unreliable form of assessment.

I believe you believe all of that, but I don't believe it is true. Even in your case.

Re: How I spend less time on YouTube

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Post by yonaguska »

typicalbender wrote: post #79
aulin wrote: post #75

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I believe it's a generational thing. We, in our late thirties, didn't have so much video content, we studied from books, learned from written content. Younger generations adapted to use videos as a learning aid, sometimes as the main learning platform. We won't ever be able to understand how they work. Their brain just adapted to this kind of learning medium. For me video talking about code is slow, unsearchable, uns…

Early 30s here. Possibly to your point and completely anecdotally, I generally have a much harder time learning via text than I do from a more kinetic learning environment or watching a video... but I wish it was the other way around. All of the benefits described above for why text is better I totally agree and I get generally frustrated trying to find the relevant part of the video but for whatever reason seeing th…

I've recently tried to get back into making art. I had a very active imagination as a child and would draw for hours on end. Now the inspiration isn't there and I have a hard time just visualizing scenes or landscapes.

Re: How I spend less time on YouTube

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Post by criddell »

dncornholio wrote: post #124
scoutt wrote: post #31

> Am I the only one who launches YouTube just to watch a single tutorial and ends up devouring dozens of fine-tuned recommendations? I'm hitting 40 next week, and seeing others asking for recommendations of videos on "programming a microcontroller" (or programming related) is something I can't understand. One day I sat and watched some of the videos they were recommending, and in most of them there were a person talk…

Always text over video. When people say they prefer video, they don't know better, haven't actually been learning anything or are extremely lazy. For example, to do a gradient in Gimp, you should know a few shortcode keys. Now how do I look up which key to use again? Load the video and keep fiddling with the player until I hit the right moment where he explains this little detail? It's extremely annoying to look up a…

Always text over video? I disagree. Things like Khan Academy work much better than reading a textbook for a lot of people.

Also, video guitar tutorials (Justin Sandercoe's are great) are wonderful because it gives you something to play along to.

Re: How I spend less time on YouTube

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Post by redthrow »

avhon1 wrote: post #148
celsoazevedo wrote: post #110

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That site is using Sponsor Block: https://sponsor.ajay.app/

...which, for those not familiar, is available as a browser extension. It crowdsources timestamps for non-necessary parts of youtube videos, and can automatically fetch those timestamps and skip over them in videos you're watching.

...and since Piped a webapp with account signups, it works on mobile browser as well without any extensions and you can manage channel subscriptions as well.

Re: How I spend less time on YouTube

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Post by asdff »

aulin wrote: post #75
scoutt wrote: post #31

> Am I the only one who launches YouTube just to watch a single tutorial and ends up devouring dozens of fine-tuned recommendations? I'm hitting 40 next week, and seeing others asking for recommendations of videos on "programming a microcontroller" (or programming related) is something I can't understand. One day I sat and watched some of the videos they were recommending, and in most of them there were a person talk…

I believe it's a generational thing. We, in our late thirties, didn't have so much video content, we studied from books, learned from written content. Younger generations adapted to use videos as a learning aid, sometimes as the main learning platform. We won't ever be able to understand how they work. Their brain just adapted to this kind of learning medium. For me video talking about code is slow, unsearchable, uns…

But its a learning medium that's fundamentally terrible. Seriously, pull a transcript of any 15 minute youtube video. It will take you a few minutes to read. Why waste your limited time to extract the same exact information waiting for someone to gesticulate on a video, young or old? It's like sitting through a college lecture where the professor dryly reads directly out of the textbook and you wonder why you are even paying tuition.

Re: How I spend less time on YouTube

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Post by asdff »

mkaic wrote: post #115
aulin wrote: post #75

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I believe it's a generational thing. We, in our late thirties, didn't have so much video content, we studied from books, learned from written content. Younger generations adapted to use videos as a learning aid, sometimes as the main learning platform. We won't ever be able to understand how they work. Their brain just adapted to this kind of learning medium. For me video talking about code is slow, unsearchable, uns…

Gen Z programmer here. Can confirm that video content is by far the best way I learn new information and skills. I think having grown up with the modern internet has shaped my brain in a way that makes it so video feels more natural than it might for folks even 10 years older than me. It's definitely fascinating to look at the effects the internet is having on society over longer time periods.

It just seems so slow to me. Here's another 15 minute video of what could be a three minute blog post. Be sure like comment subscribe!

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Post by aeternum »

avgDev wrote: post #142
aeternum wrote: post #133

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For things like fixing a car part or home repair video is much better than text. There's nothing like watching someone do it, quickly seeing the exact location of things and how they should be moved.

This isn't true. Once you know cars enough, the same thing applies to car repair. I just need the torque specs for the bolts, I don't need or want to watch a whole video.

Most people aren't car experts

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Post by asdff »

funOtter wrote: post #154

I turn off "viewing history" and then only subscribe to the channels I am interested in, and ONLY visit https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

Take it a step even further and just follow these channels via RSS and watch with mpv. Don't even point the browser to the site at all.
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