The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video.

[lil5@social.linux.pizza]

@Daojoan what might help is to try different search engines that focus on blogs and lower the ranking based on ads and tracking.

Search My Site - Open source search engine and search as a service for personal and independent websites

searchmysite.net - the open source search engine and search as a service for user-submitted personal and independent websites

(searchmysite.net)

Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine

Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

(kagi.com)

Mojeek

Mojeek is a web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.

(www.mojeek.com)

Mwmbl - Search

The free, open-source and non-profit search engine.

(mwmbl.org)

The big two trackers (google & bing) actively give big tech and ads supported websites higher ratings, leaving independent blogs in the dust, at page 8.

[morqendi@mstdn.social]

@Daojoan

And if they do, it's AI slob which starts explaining how to turn on a PC, the history of computers in general, why <your problem> matters. Then there's the solution: click on <menu => option that doesn't exist>.

[crecente@games.ngo]

@Daojoan

Creators profit from YouTube's garbage business model to the detriment of those looking to actually learn anything.

(www.reddit.com)

[squaloujenkins@fosstodon.org]

@Daojoan
once upon a time I lamented about this,
explaining the time and energy lost (to make and consult this), the inability to search for keywords.

nowadays I getvthe answer 'shitGpt can sum up for you, then search in it'.

I quit.

[pedramardakani@fosstodon.org]

@GentlemanTech @Daojoan @geospaz that's something :)) at least one could find the most relevant video based on the actual content not the title, hashtag, most viewed, taste of "similar" users, etc.

[sashabilton@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aoe @Daojoan always! And I really love watching making & tuition videos but as entertainment. And some are sometimes to the point but that's not how advertising based platforms work unfortunately.

[snowblind2005@social.vivaldi.net]

@Daojoan

Are you setting up your AI skills.md file so that it only gives you the advertisements and weekly drama you're interested in instead of random ones after you ask it to write out a guide for you?

[tschach@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan “Could this 10 minute video have been a 2 minute read?”

[countholdem@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan Roots feed the branches, and during any 'leap' change, as has been the computer age, there requires a countermeasure to fill the gap/deficit that's left in said "leap".

And as a byproduct of millions of years, of harder physical differentials, placing too much weight on software, and far less on hardware, results in the inevitable asymmetry we're seeing now.

May as well be a brain in a vat, while cockroaches inherit your past potential.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@Daojoan if it's a video 9 times out of 10 I will not view it. If I must view it, I will not play it, but skip through it as fast as I can.

If it's on YouTube? Forget it.

[tagirijus@mas.to]

@Daojoan German #music #education for #free in written form:

Tagirijus Books

(books.tagirijus.de)

Have fun, people.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@CountHoldem @Daojoan What's so wrong with empowering the cockroaches? They should be given every tool to succeed, lol.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@SnowBlind2005 is this a serious message or a joke, I can't tell.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@thomasfuchs point me to it, oh wise one.

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@Daojoan My brain can very easily retain information I have read in text. I have a very hard time remembering what somebody said in spoken words.

[sjcooke66@mastodon.social]

@mjsberna @Daojoan Yeah, because they learned the Old-Tyme teaching adage 'Tell them what you will say, say it, then tell them what you said' and they want to do more of it!

[miszeleq@mastodon.com.pl]

@earthshine @Daojoan

I blame Discord on the downfall of the modern web. You used to be able to find answers to your problems easily on moderated forums, where people used to follow the rules of netiquette. Nowadays you need to join private server and scroll through endless spam.

IDK who had the idea of moving the support/community into de facto chatroom that is Discord, but there is a special place in hell for them.

[ghosttie@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Daojoan makes me want to make a tutorial video that's just the text of the tutorial slowly scrolling past

[fruitcakesareyum@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan

For me it has been a blessing. I've always struggled to keep focused when reading walls of text, but now I can get a visual guide.

For quick "was it Y?" I've never failed to find a brief written answer (usually in SO, reddit or the rare forum post).

For long tutorials, I've managed to find stuff that gets to the point very fast. SponsorBlock for YouTube is also pretty good for skipping meanderings.

We have choices now. What works for you is good, what works for others is also good.

[professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Daojoan

Food bloggers used to write things down. That is, they used to teach you how to cook. Nowadays, that still write, but it's like every article starts with, "I was born on a farm in Nebraska..."