Soatok DreamseekerI hate video content. Not because I'm worried about media codec 1-click 0days, but because I read faster than people talk and am sure of what I read (but not always what I heard).
My aversion to unsolicited QR codes is similar
Orman@soatok >mrw doing video training at work at 180-200% speed because otherwise people talk too slowly to hold my attention
Rachel Wil Singh ~ Moos-a-dee
Mx. Eddie R@soatok
Me too.
In live conversation there is a lot more interplay, the speaker will tend to enunciate and slow the fuck down when needed, usually without even knowing they're doing it.
A video is just some jerk shouting at their camera. No communication cues, no feedback, no adaptation. I can't follow and also it makes my brain feel icky to be talked *at*.
Me too.
In live conversation there is a lot more interplay, the speaker will tend to enunciate and slow the fuck down when needed, usually without even knowing they're doing it.
A video is just some jerk shouting at their camera. No communication cues, no feedback, no adaptation. I can't follow and also it makes my brain feel icky to be talked *at*.
cryptax@soatok I agree with you + text is searchable, indexable, so I can go quickly right to the stop I am particularly interested in.
With a video, I have to follow a 45 minute talk I may not be fully interested in for just 3 minutes of juicy content (for me).
Xwyqi ❄️@soatok It is similar that some people only send voice messages for me on IM, and I need to listen to them to know what they said if the IM doesn't have voice-to-text.
flere-imsaho 🇺🇦@soatok this, so very much this.
Nulhomme@soatok Almost the same i would just change for my case that i'm not sure of what i read but with text it easy to re read until i understand, video make it harder because the content is linked to a time and going back multiple time to understand something is more annoying and slow in a video
Leeloo@soatok
Then there is needing to copy/paste a registry key from a video that shows it in maybe 2 frames, barely sharp enough to be readable.
That 10 minute video would have been more useful if it was a two line blog post.
Kevin Karhan 
@soatok +9001%
"#Quishing" with malicious #QRcode|s is rampant and even aided by the fact that most #QRcodes are run through #URLshorteners!
Hendi@soatok thanks a lot
John Gordon@soatok Similar. Much content is video because of the revenue model supported by video DRM.
Sojaki@soatok Similar here. Especially as I can cross-read a text quickly to see if it has the interesting parts. Videos take a lot more time, as you can never be sure what comes next. And while I can effortlessly skip sentences or paragraphs of text, doing the same in video is like poking around in darkness
Stefen Auris 🖖@soatok I know that feeling, I would rather have well written documentation over video any day
Stephen Hayes@soatok
Some video is OK, but I hate it when people put what should have been a blog post or an article in a 45-minute talking-head monologue, or even a podcast.
Some video is OK, but I hate it when people put what should have been a blog post or an article in a 45-minute talking-head monologue, or even a podcast.
Kay Ohtie@soatok videos also are not reference! I have to re-invest at their time each time I need to reference something instead of jumping to exactly the info I needed.
PlasmaGryphon@soatok I can read faster too, but that isn't my main issue. My issue is that I can adjust how fast I read far easier, including rereading the hard and unclear parts while skimming over other parts.
There are times when video is the best tool for communicating certain visual content. Other times it is horrible, including when I've seen video used to convey code or as a substitute for electrical schematic.
Alkaris 
@soatok I'm always finding myself playing some videos at 1.5x or higher when people talk real slow to be understandable of what they're even saying. Also helpful when people timestamp important parts in the video you can skip to.
Shaw@soatok Imagine my disdain when I look for resources on programming languages and all the results are video.
But not just that, the first half of the goddamn video is an intro to the speaker that I don’t give two foxes about, and then the history of the language, how to install the IDE…
For fuuuuucks sake, gimme a book.
Corgi Dad@soatok @philsplace i throw video link to LLM and ask it to summarize it for me