Re: Text vs. video

From	Daniel70 <daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject	Re: Text vs. video
Date	2025-09-04 23:10 +1000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 4/09/2025 2:52 am, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:22:34 GMT
> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> [Warning: thread drift]
>>
>> On 2025-09-02, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 	Hate to waste my time on video so ignore YouTub
>>
>> Ah, someone else who feels the way I do.  When I'm trying to
>> search the web for instructions on how to do something, I skip
>> over videos in favour of text descriptions (which means that
>> I skip most hits).  I hate the idea of having to sit through
>> 20 minutes of video which proceeds at a glacial pace with no
>> easy, accurate way to skip ahead.  Text descriptions, on the
>> other hand, allow you to skip ahead or jump around at your
>> discretion, and let you find something in 30 seconds.
>> And many videos are very poorly done - not even a rehearsal
>> or gathering of relevant material before hitting the record
>> button.  Ready, fire, aim.  (In some cases it would be more
>> accurate to say "fire, aim, ready".)
>>
> 
> <AOL>
> 
> I hate^w get a bit miffed  if someone posts to Usenet a raw URL to a vid.
> It may, or may not be, everso informative, but a Clue would be useful.
> I avoid on principle. Maybe I'm less informed because of it, but
> sest lavy, as we say in Fra^w Britain.
> 
Oh! Is that how you spell it?? I would have thought it was "Say Lavie"!! ;-P
-- 
Daniel70

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