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

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@Daojoan it's so goddamn infuriating. And you can't search for info anywhere, because all the support/community is only on discord now

[xenophile@masto.hackers.town]

@Daojoan b-b-b-but some of us want to know how the developers grandmother harvested the bits and crafted them into tuples by hand for every bit of code I have to study

[slims@famichiki.jp]

@Daojoan it also doesn’t help that people are discouraged to write because LLMs will just swallow it up and use it for themselves.

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@passenger @Daojoan DISCORD. IS. NOT. A. KB. Everything anyone posts there is already ephemeral. May as well have never been posted at all.

[ides_dev@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan oh god I hate this. This ten minute video could have been two or three sentences. I am not going to subscribe to your channel, I only came here to find out how to replace my car headlight bulb - I do not want to be notified when you post more car videos!!

[max@toet.dnzm.nl]

@Daojoan Bonus funsies of your hearing is shit, so you have to rely on the auto-generated captions. Ask me how I know how much fun that is.

[gentlemantech@cyberplace.social]

@Daojoan drives me nuts. I can skim text and pick out the necessary info in seconds, but video takes *forever* even at 3x speed where they sound like rabid chipmunks

[greenvahn@mstdn.games]

@Daojoan Big part of the problem is how they monetize information. A video forces you to "stay", whether 5 mins or less. A text, like others commented here, is more difficult to monetize. I miss the old days of the internet when it was truly about sharing knowledge and info, far away from metrics and clicks

[sophiarose@hachyderm.io]

@Daojoan I had a really annoying one the other day. It was a course that my boss wanted me to do, around the use of AI in video distribution. Anyway, the training website was set up that as soon as the window playing the video lost focus, it would pause!! No clicking on other apps while watching this video on pain of pause.

Naturally, I spent a few minutes reverse engineering the website to extract the video and watch it outside of their crap, so that I was able to do other things whilst the guy wittered on about irrelevant Jira integrations.

[roelgroeneveld@mastodon.nl]

@Daojoan Indeed. That’s a terrible development that hampers anyone looking for a quick solution to their problem or answer to a question.

Apparently in general, more people prefer watching a video compared to just reading or skimming a tutorial or blog post? Or the creators have this assumption…

[cartyboston@mastodon.roundpond.net]

@Daojoan forget code, it takes me *forever* to learn video games now for the same reason.

[jaystephens@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan
Truly the pivot to video is complete.
One of the worst things about this timeline.

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@Daojoan Absolutely agree. To everyone making tutorials, DON'T START WITH YOUR LIFE STORY!, just get to the point.

It should be noted that they got it from somewhere; user manuals are also almost always paragraphs or pages of barely subject-adjacent slog before getting to anything the the thing does & even then it's somehow over- & underexplained at the same time.

There's a reason teaching is something you train for; it's actually pretty difficult to do well.

[till@ubuntu.social]

@Daojoan I am posting news about my work at #OpenPrinting regularly and did already for more than 5 years.

I intentionally do this as a written blog and not as videos, as on the blog you can search text, easily navigate, you can copy example code and paste, auto translators work better on written than on spoken text, same for accessibility tools ...

Or do you prefer watching an old graybeard talking, and for those who want video, I get interviewed here and then.

News and Events

Making Printing Just Work.

OpenPrinting (openprinting.github.io)

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@Daojoan

The video is interrupted by an advertisement every few minutes. Very irritating.

[oisin@mastodon.ie]

@Daojoan I so much dislike this fact, stopping and starting and going back over the video, the irritations like voice tone and speed, the digressions and emotional notes, ugh, please, just express the knowledge in clearly written form.

[stevefenton@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan

"How to save your Google Doc"

00:00 Why digital files need to be saved
07:24 A history of save icons
23:32 Formats used by different office tools
31:56 Famous errors caused by not saving files
58:45 Saving files in Google Docs

And all to say "they save automatically".

Like and subscribe!

[silviavont@bolha.us]

@Daojoan it sure does look like that a lot of times, you are right. Awful...

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Daojoan That is so true. I believe it's all about two factors, the easier "stream of thought speaking" (against writing a correct text) and the desire to show off themselves, before any technical content

[autiomaa@mementomori.social]

@earthshine @passenger @Daojoan Similar problems with Slack based communities, because "free" version actively hides and deletes older posts after a certain amount of time.