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mhoyeAbsolutely underappreciated how much Indian Microtutorial Youtube is doing for this world. You go looking for "how to do this extremely specific weird thing with this extremely specific piece of niche software" and there, surrounded by acres of genvoiced slop and garbage double-cropped shorts is one dude with an almost impenetrable Bengali accent, twelve followers and nothing but the love of the game serving up a 47-second video that's exactly and only what you need to know. The real MVPs.
Phil Dennis-Jordan@mhoye And of course, the usual suspects are slurping it up to be part of their training set, so that they can sell it back to you without the faintest whiff of acknowledgement to the original author.
Max von Webel@mhoye Did you ever encounter any videos that would actually explain the thing that you came for? Whenever I click on one of those because I'm out of options by now it just explains the most common thing instead of what the title actually says.
@343max I am almost always looking for "how do I do [extremely specific X] and I basically always get what I'm after.
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKOften works for small cars as well if they are of a model also sold in UK (a bonus is folk drive on same side of the road as us, so I don't have to swap round everything in my head between left and right if they are referring to interior components)
( I have part Desi ancestry, work with many colleages from South Asia and can understand Indian English 😁 )
@mhoye Maybe I'm holding it wrong but I always just find the most generic videos that answer questions the no one ever asked. The last time I tried to do research how to get generate a custom NFC key in Google Wallet to unlock my door and one of these videos would come up only to say somewhere in the middle “this only works if the issuer of the cards provides Google Wallet support". (1/2)
The first 20 seconds of the video where wasted on explaining that the phone needs NFC support (duh!) and how to turn NFC on. Whom exactly was this video supposed to help? (2/2)
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Gabriele Svelto@mhoye I fixed a bunch of stuff with those, the repair skills of some of these people are incredible
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Lt Cmdr Keyboard@mhoye I'm also a fan of the variation of those videos which have nothing but a jaunty background tune and everything communicated via Microsoft Notepad text and a screen recording
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦Many laptop and motherboard hardware issues fixed with such things.
Ovidi Nawer@mhoye That's stolen latam culture
JK but if you don't find a good tutorial on a specific language, try to search it in spanish. You'll be surprised.
The other thrid leg that sustains the internet are nordic europeans but it's harder to learn a little bit of *insert words I don't even know how to start to read* than a language in which the word "tutorial" is "tutorial"
JK but if you don't find a good tutorial on a specific language, try to search it in spanish. You'll be surprised.
The other thrid leg that sustains the internet are nordic europeans but it's harder to learn a little bit of *insert words I don't even know how to start to read* than a language in which the word "tutorial" is "tutorial"
Luna Lactea@mhoye Every few years I watch a video about how to factor radicals done by a guy from India. Thank you Indian math man.
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