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Old farts of Hexbear, is there something about younger people that you don't get? [no punching down!]
(hexbear.net)
OK this is my list. But first, I need to say that this isn't a condemnation of those into such thing. They just don't vibe with me.
- Cannot get into ASMR. I've tried. Often its women 20 years younger than me, rubbing their fingernails on hairbrushes. The intentional sounds they make with their lips and fingers are things that would make me want to change seats on a bus.
- Instagram. I was maybe the last person to get a smart phone. It was probably 2016. I'm just fully lazy to take photos of stuff. This is a real issue when I'm single and I need to start putting photos on dating sites, as all pics of me in my phone are me squeezing carrots in my nostrils and similarly goofy things.
- My students' taste in anime. I try to be all cool and show off my cool taste in anime, maybe drop a Azumanga Daioh clip. It's all ancient history for 17 year olds.
- Photo and videos done in portrait mode. I guess I don't watch videos on the go. See #2
Things that the kids these days do better:
- Usually better opinions on current events than people my age
- I wish that cosplay existed when I was a teen. The default when I was younger was drugs.
If anyone insults the kids, I will visit you at your home and do an 
Video tutorials.
Just give me some damn written instructions I don't retain anything from watching someone else do it 😣
Software tutorials especially. Even worse are the ones that are screen recorded off a 4K desktop so that unless you're also watching the video at 4K, you're not gonna be able to see where the mouse cursor is because the compression makes it almost invisible.
I wouldn't blame it on the current generation, though. People my own age do this shit too.
I shouldn't complain too much because it's free tech support and they're making these videos for no money , and probably for a program that I pirated.
I'm just baffled by the current generation being able to use video tutorials. I guess it's what they've always had so they're used to it but back in my day we used text and only the occasional picture!
I catch myself rewinding them over and over because steps happen too fast or are not clear enough. Worse so ever since YouTube fucked up the seek bar in the mobile app so it's more difficult to precision seek a video.
OMG seriously. But also when I Google something, SEO gives me a webpage that has 2000 words of what I didn't ask for.
Text instructions are so much easier to skim through. I don't want to wait for someone's stupid 12 minute long "ULTIMATE guide for pee pee poo poo" to load and jump randomly through the video to find the relevant two second long section that contains the information I'm looking for that I could have easily found in five seconds if they had just made a text guide for it and I could have ctrl-f'd to find the exact information I needed.
Also I hate how every loser calls their guide the "ULTIMATE guide to X." Terrible fucking buzz word. If I see anything that calls itself the ULTIMATE guide for whatever I'm skipping it by default, fuck you.
the only good video tutorials are something like "serive and maintenance for sram s7 spectro.mov" and it's a guy with a native dialect you've never heard in your life
Me watching the same tut five times because the premier expert in the world is from Delhi and I struggle with that accent. Or, like, someone who clearly learned English as a second language and is all "I apologize for my poor english" in the description like they're not a goddamn superhero for being the only documentation on the entire internet for some obscure thing.
instructables.com lmao
I used to be all over that shit. Video tutorials are slightly easier to make (poorly) and like one time out of ten you get details from the video that are hard to get from photo/text directions, but mostly they're just bad
I can't blame this on Zoomers. I think this is entirely an SEO thing. As google got worse and worse we went from websites to blogs, and now blogs are almost entirely gone. Once SEO really lit off and the 5 social media companies took over everything youtube was the closest thing to an accessible permanent store of information most people had. I think the rise of video tutes and video essays follows directly from that, a bunch of shit circumstances converging on a shit singularity.
Yeah I need written stuff. Especially with linux troubleshooting.
You know, transcribing video tutorials and formatting them might be a legitimate use for LLMs.
most of those videos are just reading some tutorial blog that Google is actively hiding from you
Honestly transcription in general is the only use I’ve seen for LLMs that I’m like “Yeah actually that’s pretty good”
Yes, but they have to be good written instructions or else it’s just the same problem really, which is why most people just do a video tutorial because writing instructions is actually kinda hard.
For me it depends a lot on what it’s a tutorial for. Like, I hate music lesson tutorials, always feels like it’s moving on before I absorb what I need. Home repair tutorials, on the other hand, those are boss because often the written instructions are vague or not optimal, and seeing exactly what physical movement the instructions meant is helpful.
Naw, for me written is always better.
Even at my job (factory labor) I struggle to learn from someone literally showing me how to do the job. I want written standard work that I can refer to when I'm unsure. Vague written instructions are better than a visual imo