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

[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, they still write, but it's like every article starts with, "I was born on a farm in Nebraska..."

[countholdem@mastodon.social]

@Netraven Right now in our history, dolphins server a better porpoise.

[sjcooke66@mastodon.social]

@sashabilton @aoe @Daojoan There are exceptions because Video production requires a specific skill set, as does teaching stuff and they two worlds rarely interface successfully for the viewer.

[swordgeek@mstdn.ca]

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[webnovelverse@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan Absolutely correct

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@CountHoldem I doubt the sea will fare much better than the land by the time Humans are done.

The good news is that language is structure and structure is tool shaped. Tools don't require explanation for any thinking organism to understand how to pick them up, and use them again.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@CountHoldem aha, just caught the pun. lol.

[pit@social.namok.be]

@Daojoan y a pas si longtemps mes étudiants ne lisaient plus et regardaient des vidéos... maintenant, avec l'IAG, ils relisent 🥹

[alper@rls.social]

@Daojoan Most people would rather die than write. Fake“professionals” prefer to ramble the same inane bs many times over writing it down once.

[adrianww@mastodon.scot]

@Daojoan Oh hell that is so true! It drives me bloody insane!

Ten minutes of video drivel that could be condensed down to a couple of pages of text and a few diagrams - all of which might take just a few minutes to read, understand and act upon.

I know about learning styles, etc. and that video instruction works better for some people, but give the rest of us the option FFS!!

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@Professor_Stevens @Daojoan At least it's they're not from Nantucket.

[harisont@mstdn.social]

@Daojoan to be fair, video *tutorials* have worked better than written *tutorials* for me in many occasions. What I really struggle with right now is finding something that *isn't* a tutorial when all I need is concise, high-quality, up-to-date, structured and easily searchable reference material. Especially when it comes to web development.

[hitaus@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan Fully agree. Unfortunately most (AI gen'd?) websites also fail to get to the point efficiently, and ramble on around the subject for ages. Hence I prefer a short'n'succinct Codeberg/Github page or minimal blog post that dives straight into the issue and be done with it.

[professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@crazyeddie @Daojoan

But that would be poetic.

[blogrolly@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan depending on what you want to learn I can suggest the Odin project if it’s software development you want to learn they have an exhaustive guide

[hamishb@mstdn.ca]

It is so annoying. Reading is so much faster than video and comprehension from reading is much better, too.

If you can write a script for a video, you can at least post it with your video.

@Daojoan

[future_upbeat@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan Yes, I greatly prefer a concise, written 'how to' above the endless blathering on a video.

[realgene@hachyderm.io]

@Daojoan
Yesterday, my Brother laser printer, which is generally a nice, invisible piece of machinery, was apparently soliciting strange computers on the Internet, because there were literally thousands of triggers of a firewall rule I set up forbidding access to the printer from outside, primarily to prevent firmware upgrades.

So I attempted to log in to the printer's web console, which requires an SSL connection, but it wouldn't respond to that.

When I searched for why I couldn't log in, the results were either from Brother, all of which told me to tell the browser to accept the cert (which it couldn't, because the printer wouldn't accept a TLS connection at all), or YouTube videos saying/showing EXACTLY THE SAME THING.

So I factory reset it, and was then able to log in (after telling the browser to accept the self-signed cert).

And the outside attacks stopped.

[nicelymanifest@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan Writing good guides is so much harder. Modern life gravitates towards the easy path.