Even if it does, there are plenty of problems with this kind of invasive tech. For example, somebody should explain to Microsoft how domestic abuse works.
Honestly even your average tech bro isn’t doing as well as they “should” be. Mass layoffs and unreal churn in the tech industry mean that while tech bros are perhaps less affected by inflation than your “average joe” in some other sector, its still the ceos and that lot who are winning.
For fear of being told I’m old, I agree with that. Most all the previous decades has fairly obvious delimiters give or take a couple years. Once the internet and slab phones became ubiquitous it feels like things have melded and stopped changing as rapidly. With fashion we’ve gone cyclical with previous decades coming back in style too.
I hated when Instagram started emphasizing videos and then stories and I guess now it’s “reels”. I was on there to have a photography gallery. I also wasn’t there to watch other peoples’ videos. It’s all gotten even worse with the current TikTok video culture. It also annoys me when I’m looking to learn to do something, like say, change a battery in a car where it’s complex, and the only info available is in YouTube videos. I also never got learning to program from watching a video. I’d much rather just read the information.
Absolutely. You usually don’t need a whole step-by-step 40 minute walkthrough anyway. You need help with a SPECIFIC step and it’s MUCH easier to scroll through a page or CTRL+F the part you need than try to scroll around a freaking youtube video that you can’t search unless you run it through a text transcriber. Not to mention the bandwidth and storage waste, the annoying, unclear voices, the sponsor ads…
I swear people learning most things from youtube videos either have COMPLETELY different brain wiring, or are just straight up insane.
Well, I guess that’s not fair… they might ALSO be lying about learning. That’s the hustle culture, I guess. Learning things is less important than the APPEARANCE of learning things.
They’re not making YouTube videos because people prefer video instructions to text; they’re making them because they can make more money from YouTube than from text. I’m sure loads of people would prefer text.
There are definitely cases where i vastly prefer video instructions to text though. Depends on what the instructions are about, the style of editing etc.
For example, seeing someone disassemble/assemble something is much more informative to me than a text that only vaguely describes where to find the next screw or clip, or that misses some important detail because the author thought it was obvious.
I can see the point in theory, but when this would’ve been really helpful, my experience is 80% of the time the video maker’s hand is obscuring the important stuff, and the video is often out of focus or frame anyway, and a red circle on a photo as an alternative will usually do just fine. The nice thing about still photos is, the photographer REALLY has to think about each shot, and if it is showing the important thing they want to reveal in that shot. If it isn’t, they’re forced to either retake it or take extra photos to get the point across.
With a video, the videographer is distracted by talking and doing a thing at the same time, and they just think “Yeah, it’s video. I got it.” and they often don’t even rewatch the footage.
Yeah no question, well written instructions (iFixit 💖) are better than even a well produced video, but I’d say the barrier to producing a useful video is much lower than to writing/photographing equally useful written instructions.
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