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 
There’s an entire piece of at home technology that used to exist and tons of people used to have that I don’t think anybody under the age of 25 has ever actually seen: The VHS rewinder.
Wow yeah honestly I’m under 25 and I grew up with a VCR but I didn’t have a VHS rewinder, we just rewound the tapes using the VCR itself. I was familiar with the rewinders existing but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in person.
I have one of those at home. It’s strange that I’m a young millennial that grew up watching things on Laser Disc.
lol I just saw laserdisc v DVD stuff on the first ep or two of the sopranos and I was like “wow I thought laserdisc was dead by then”
Basically I remember watching my first movies on only Laser Disc around the same time the Sopranos came out. That and VHS tapes. My father isn’t going to get rid of something he bought brand new in the 80s. Still works fine along with his old speakers.
I had to replace the tweeters but I’m still rocking speakers that I think are 80s. Haven’t been real interested in holding onto laserdisc or VHS tho lol
My folks have speakers from the 80s that still sound great today and they are LOUD. The loudest I’ve ever turned them up was halfway, and I had to leave the house because it was so loud.
My family had one shaped like a little car
my grandparents had one and I think maybe still do
I’ve used it a whopping like twice, we switched to DVD when I was quite young
When i was a wee lad I hid my weed in one. Successfully escaped the notice of a searching sherriff. Nobody checks the VHS rewinder.
checkout richie rich over here, has seen a VHS rewinder in real life
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obsession with streamers. I literally cannot wrap my head around the appeal of watching another person that isn’t an actual friend play a videogame.
I used to think the same way. Until I meet Jerma.
Still, I watch his old streams only. Not fan of watching anything live.
Also, he has some bangers I like to rewatch before falling asleep.
This is true. Jerma is very funny. I love rewatching his clips.
Streamers are to Gen Z what sports teams were to boomers.
Just watching somebody you don’t know play a game and cheering for them because you happen to like them
That’s still different though. Like I get why people watch live streams of pro gamers competing, that’s the exact same as pro sports.
But watching somebody who isn’t good at the game or even funny/interesting for hours? That shit will always be alien to me. I watch pro sports and sometimes pro games like Counter Strike, but I don’t watch somebody who’s shit at football fumble the ball for 4 hours straight
There’s always a few people watching regional league soccer here so I imagine that’s sort of the same except you don’t have to drive 30km into a backwater to watch a 2hour game on a sunday
Except not everybody watches only professional sports, and not everybody who watches sports does so for the love of seeing the sport played at a high level.
That’s why I compared it to sports teams, which people watch for the individuals, narratives, amongst other things
I think we’re kinda in agreement. Like E sports has all the same individuals, narratives, back stories, underdogs and all that fun stuff. I 100% get it. And I get watching certain streamers (not even game streamers necessarily) that are funny or charming or entertaining or informative.
But watching a charismatic black hole of a human fuck up at a game for hours or browse memes on teddit is something I can’t understand.
Oh yeah some streamers definitely do not appeal to everybody, but in the same sense neither do all teams, players, sports, or genres
Streamers are only useful as background noise for me. Whenever I try and just watch one, even smaller ones, I inevitably get annoyed - they have some personal quirk that bothers me, enforce the rules too little or too much, or when politics comes up, it’s usually either milquetoast lib stuff said sanctimoniously or people who are kinda left-leaning but their closeness to meaningfully good opinions is itself annoying as I want to push them on but I cannot because that would be creating a parasocial relationship. I prefer to just move on and remove them from algorithmic recommendations.
Having any kind of “allegiance” to a streamer or really any content (bleurgh) creator just seems unwise to me, no matter how amazing they are and correct they are on issues. Because the drama will come for them, and then instead of discussing real-world issues, you’ve delving into reddit threads about he-said she-saids to determine if they’re Still A Good Person or not.
It feels like the modern incarnation of celebrity culture but for people who say they don’t care about celebrities. “Oh no, I don’t give a shit about what’s going on with Taylor Swift or Megan Markle, caring about random people like that is kinda weird. HOLY SHIT have you seen the newest video by Blungle292? The video game challenge he just did is so INSANE and DIFFICULT.” And explicitly political streamers? Good god, I don’t even go near them, they’re inevitably uninteresting and annoying.
I will add one caveat to this actually but he doesn’t stream games and its not really a parasocial relationship because he is a Lakota elder in Chunka Luta Network. https://www.twitch.tv/lostsioux
Definitely check out this one because he is funny as fuck and has a lot of wisdom to share.
I watch streams of games to see if they’re any good before i pirate them
Imagine the millennial obsession of Bradgelina. Or Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman or Justin Timberlake. Or with hot tub streamers, imagine having a crush on your older sister’s female friends and trying to impress them. Or millennials who saw Evangelion and were like “omg so me” instead of having parents.
I literally cannot wrap my head around the appeal of watching another person that isn’t an actual friend play a videogame.
Imagine Wombo Combo or Leroy Jenkins but instead of millennials screaming and hollering together, it’s zoomers.
If you can understand these things, you can wrap your head around streamers.
Imagine Wombo Combo or Leroy Jenkins
I think it’s really a reflection of the social conditions of our generation. Gen X chuds are a certain brand of paranoid and self absorbed, and generally made bad parents. Many western parents stopped letting their children participate in things outside the house because they were terrified their kid would get kidnapped. So instead, kids made friends with random people on the internet. So watching a stranger play Pokemon really doesn’t feel like much of a stretch for me.
The way kids have been semi-systematically confined to their homes makes me simmeringly furious.
Yup, my gen x dad wouldn’t even let me take a walk on our street just to get some exercise and fresh air, because he thought I would be kidnapped and SA’d. Kidnapping has never even happened in our town before.
Meanwhile, teachers, cops, and even the fire chief were caught messing with minors or having CSAM on their computer. But I was “safe” at school! And “safe” at home with my abusive step mother. Gen x chud dads are really something else.
It’s so fucked. Back in my day when I was 7 they’d kick us out of the house with a juice box, a bike, and instructions not to come back until lunch or dinner. And that’s literal! We had bears and moose and god knows what in the neighborhood and it was just like “Go outside and have fun” for hours every day during the summer and the weekends. When I was in highschool we’d stay out all night fucking around, wandering through neighborhoods, hanging out at Denny’s, or driving to some of the trails and scenic overlooks outside town. That it’s gotten so bad, and so restrictive, in a few decades of 24/7 news panicmongering is so frustrating. It shouldn’t be like this!
I’d do that to my kids, but I’m more worried about heat exhaustion.
Fair, especially if they’re younger. Are they old enough to recognize the symptoms? headache, shaky hands, feeling weak? If you fit them out with water bottles and snacks and they stay in the shade they should be able to hold out for a while. Especially if you send them out early in the morning and in the evening, and have them come back home for siesta during the hot part of the day.
Damn, though, you are right. I’d never even considered that rising heat would be a hazard just for kids playing outside. Shit’s dark. : *(
It’s bleak
No, 6 and 3 lol. I let them play in the backyard once and they were flushed after 15-20 mins of play.
Basically my youth. The only dangerous thing I ever encountered was the fucking swarms of mosquitos and the neighbor kids playing pranks on me like trying to convince me a nugget of moose shit was a cookie.
It tasted like wood.
: p I never got got with moose poop, but there was definitely some intra-tweenage warfare going on.
lol back in the day I nearly burned down the “woods” behind our house fucking with mosquito coils. I hate mosquitos with the fury of ten thousand haters. The only good thing about them is growing up in AK, I can laugh at folks in the lower 48 any time they say “The mosquitos are real bad out here!”
to be fair I was like 3 or 4 when I got got by the neighbor kids.
I’ve also accidentally almost burnt down or blown up the woods in a few neighborhoods because either unsupervised camping and making campfires, got out hands on fireworks, got our hands on gunpowder, got our hands on gasoline, got our hands on butane, etc.
Now that I think about it I’m surprised none of us actually got seriously injured with all the dumb shit kids do.
It really shouldn’t be like this and I think it did permanent damage to me, I’m like a skittish indoor cat now. Been trying to enjoy the outside more but I don’t think I’ll ever be at that level. My parents made me so anxious and nervous with their paranoia and worries.
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Funny enough there’s a few mid-tier streamers that I can watch. But their content is all edited decently, they cut out the bullshit opinions and bad jokes, and they’re pretty self-deprecating. It really helps to turn my brain off to just watch someone play a game I like and comment through it. If I couldn’t sleep, this would be my brain-off content. I’m thinking of Francis John or Call Me Kevin. I feel bad, but I’ve never contributed to anyone’s Patreon.
I don’t watch streamers personally but I can see the appeal of having some background noise
It is fun to see a person you find interesting do a thing you like. Usually they are pretty good impov type comedians. Plus TV has always been way worse on average.
Remember celebrity culture back in the 90s and 00s? Figure it’s the same thing, mixed with the appeal of Mr. Roosevelt’s fireside chats.
I also like watching some of the S-tier streamers in games I play. Like watching very high level players in Naraka is incredible because they’re playing an entirely different game from the bush leagues where I hang out.
Community
Almost always there is a chat feature, and many successful streamers interact with that community live. For an old-folks reference, it’s not very different from MTV’s Total Request Live where part of the appeal was interacting with the hosts.
YES I ALWAYS EXPLAIN THIS PART WHEN TALKING TO BOOMERS ABOUT IT.
Like imagine you could be in a chat room cheering for the Eagles playing football with everybody else who was watching the game? That would be fun as hell and the trash talk/ insight is enjoyable
YES I ALWAYS EXPLAIN THIS PART WHEN TALKING TO BOOMERS ABOUT IT.
I lol in a good way reading this
The average streamer is straight up doodoo IMO, but some rare ones are good entertainers or speakers. I got into one for a while like 7 years ago that played mostly older games, but not all retro, and played a super wide variety (many of them entertainingly bad tbh), usually not for hours at a time unless the challenge was specifically to beat the game, and made like a game show out of selecting which one he would play, or what romhack, or whatever, and usually had other friends on to keep the banter up, play against him, whatever. And hilarious intermission gags.
After that fairly short phase though I really started to get into twitch after starting to become radicalized and watched some varying levels of left wing political streamers, like half of them trans, mostly for entertainment, and one for background noise during work. Most of them turned out to not have the best takes tbh, and I got sick of all but one by mid-pandemic and stopped. I’d say only one has really gotten at all parasocial feeling and that makes me a little uncomfortable tbh so I try to be mindful of it.
I also sometimes watch hasan clips but I straight up do not have time to watch his full streams ever lol, and its mostly him yelling at chatters for saying something reactionary I feel like so the edited clips are better and I can skip around if he gets stunlocked
Plus his chat are massive libs
parasocial relationships
I’ll build on your 2nd and 4th ones. I truly do not understand the appeal of the TikTok aesthetic. Vertical video is already really ugly. But now we’re doing incredibly bad green screen of a floating head talking at me like I’m holding up the self-checkout line at a grocery store. And then the auto subtitles that I cannot turn off that change colors or some other nonsense rather than focusing on readability that are autogenerated and contain numerous errors (subtitles are very good, but should be VTT or the like files that can be turned on and off so the platform can place them properly on the screen). Then there’s just an ugly UI laid over it along with seeing reactions pop up on screen further just making a mess of styles and crowding the screen.
I feel like some old guy that loves paintings seeing these new fangled moving pictures everyone is talking about and not understanding how anyone can willing fry their attention span on them.
100%
I think that IG and TikTok are for people who like to scroll. I guess that we’re doing that now with Hexbear. Usually with me, I’m only watching videos when I’m relaxing, not walking or waiting a minute. This is just a preference for text vs video.
This isn’t new per se, but much more mainstream now: fandom
I love art and there’s tons that I’m passionate about but like, the whole “obsessing over a character and writing fanfic and getting into fights over ships, etc.” and stuff is a completely alien mindset to me. Don’t get it
It skipped our generations due to IP laws but that was how most the legends of old came to be I am pretty sure. " no, our hero was raised by wolves and built this city himself"
Imagine Aristotle or Plato making up stories about themselves debating other philosophers. Or imagine Greeks and Romans making up random stories that involved their gods and goddesses and then becoming popular to the point of being canon. Or imagine Christians holding councils to determine which biblical story is “real”
I’m not real sympathetic to the whole “Dante and Virgil were just writing fanfic” type arguments. There’s certainly a human tendency to reinterpret, but the material conditions that form the basis for the possibility of modern fandom are quite recent and projecting it backwards is something that I think is ahistorical
The earliest you can push this back as a phenomenon is probably something like the original Sherlock Holmes fandom
I’d assume the argument would be that Aristotle and Plato were trying to illustrate some philosophical argument, myths and religion were on some level about understanding the world around you and why it came to be the way it is. Fandom doesn’t really have that same importance. Maybe if you are moved by a character or story and want to use the characters and/or setting to illustrate some deeper point about the human experience, but that doesn’t really encapsulate the whole of modern fandom. Cosplaying at an anime convention does not make you Aristotle.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with fandom or cosplaying, but I assume this is what the main difference would be.
I mean people dressed up like their ancestors or heroes for ceremonies and celebrations. Not much different from cosplayers doing it to celebrate the characters they like
A cosplayer is not celebrating their favorite characters in the same way someone in the distant past would be honoring their heroes, ancestors, gods or the dead. It’s a completely different relationship.
Fights and drama seem pointless. But if people want to create new media on a subject and share it, I guess it’s fine. Oh ya, tho, some teens really get into reading fan fiction.
I can’t blame Zoomers for that. That’s 100% post Harry Pottery turbo-marketing, where every IP has products in every conceivable category - kids toys, adult toys, books, comics, TV, cartoons, movies, games, everything. Harry Potter set off a marketing paradigm of utterly saturating people’s lives with shit in every category imaginable and it’s become the norm for many things. Like, back in the day? We had new star wars novels a few times a year, a comic, some games. There was lots of stuff, but it came at a steady trickle. It was nothing compared to the absolute tidal wave of “content” that’s happening right now.
writing fanfic
Works that get fandoms are by definition things that resonate with people. It’s no surprise that they’d find the characters/setting compelling enough to inspire their own writing.
You made me realize I haven’t really interacted with anyone between 16-30 in a long time.
My nephew is into fortnite and roblox. In my day we played more competitively oriented games like quake or counter strike (I’m young enough that those were a thing) and I don’t get the appeal of the newer games.
I can speak for all teens, but my students play Valorant, League of Legends, and Apex. Some still play CS.
Okay if the kids are playing League I take back everything nice I said about them!
I’m young enough that those were a thing
I have bad news for you.
Back in my day, I played the original counterstrike when it was just the most popular half life mod you could install. And we put an onion on our belt, because that was the style at the time.
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I wish I knew more about Roblox. It seems like something culturally important is happening there.
- ASMR as well.
- Some of the Music, mainly stuff like Semetary. Also the incredibly short songs sometimes throw me a bit.
- Some of the memes just go over my head so much.
Otherwise I think the kids these days are great. Have learnt so much from them, about drawing boundaries, neurotypes, gender. I am very happy to be the parent of one of these younger humans, they make the best comrades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JQs0vANq-0
I know this is kinda a special case but heres a 12 second song from 1992, theyre just jingles really, the who sell out would maybe be a better example
lol, I look at lists of “top artists of 2024”, and I’ll be lucky if I know 30% of them.
Right?
We have this thing with my kid where we play music for each other and rate it, to expand our views and learn new music. Some of the stuff he has thrown at me has been really hard to comment on, but it is interesting.
- ASMR is platonic BDSM. Our generation had jackasss for platonic BDSM. Theirs is more based on comfort and sensory play.
Might be. It works great for my kid for sleep/making the head go queit, but for me it just causes unease We are both neurodivergent with loud minds. I personally need stories being read for sleep.
I mean I do get it, but it isn’t for me. I know a lot of people my age who do like ASMR.
Tbh, always really disliked Jackass too.
Usually better opinions on current events than people my age
I’d even say that young people today have better opinions on current events than people my age had when they were their age. Most late Gen Xers were always awful about politics, just pure end of history garbage. We’re the generation that grew up with AES being replaced by Pizza Hut and shock therapy, and the kids these days grow up with the planet being set on fire by capitalism, so this shouldn’t surprise anybody.
2020 radicalized my mom and her politics now are “let the streets run red with the blood of the bankers” and she just sorta assumes I know what I’m talking about but we still frequently find new anti-communist brainworms just because the shit she was taught growing up is absolutely insane.
People talk about how Gen Aloha isn’t learning how to read and that’s a problem but fuck, Gen X got no history education whatsoever, they just threw a bunch of McCarthyism into the history shaped hole in the curriculum.
She listened to blowback season 4 and was blown away, she had absolutely no idea what happened in Korea
She sounds like me. Honestly I owe a lot of my deprogramming to my gen Z kid. He was the one who started to push againts my Soviet Union/AES brainworms and these days he finds it funny how I went a lot further into the rabbit hole than him.
2020 radicalized my mom
Mine too
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It’s a good thing we learned our lesson and now we’re using cirriculum made by PragerU in schools!
The kids are all right, siri play the Offspring
I know so many younger people who are trendy and hip and wayyy too online, people obsessed with short form content, I guess it stems from twitter? Snapvhat stories, vines, shit you make, is seen once, and then its gone (but theres no privacy involved and meta harvests all the data, and I’ve seen communities around mr tear themselves apart on fucking instsgram instead of talking to people, wait thats it! these damn kids wont make a phonecall ~my grandchildren wont call me~ sorry dear, what was I saying? lol)
grumble grumble
I’ve been terminally online since i was 14 but it was out of necessity from being isolated and having no irl people to bond with, it feels like people are doing it deliberately now, I feel for them.
I’m in my 20s and have almost lost all connection to my family since I’m not on social media aside from Lemmy and a few niche tech forums if that counts) and no one wants to make a phone call.
I absolutely hate texting and unless it’s a quick 2 message exchange I won’t do it and will just make a call. Every time I call someone and they pick up they assume something’s wrong, but usually they don’t answer and will sent a text instead. Even a lot of my older relatives are like that.
I’m in my 20s and have almost lost all connection to my family since I’m not on social media aside from Lemmy and a few niche tech forums if that counts) and no one wants to make a phone call.
I feel like this is the failure of FB and IG with enshitification. If those products did what they did 10 years ago, I’d still be looking at pictures of my mum’s cookies.
I think it’s fine that you don’t like texting. Your people should be able to understand that about you.
I’m slowly turning into a voice memo friend
People are deliberately being extremely online‽
The kids seem mostly fine. They probably don’t understand quite how extraordinary the pressure is on them compared to even just 25 years ago. I’m very concerned about how their math skills are developing, but I think that has something to do with how much schools have fallen apart and/or turned into performance pressure cookers. They’re kinder than previous generations, and honestly it’s surprising to me that they are because of how fucked society is around them.
I don’t get their humor, but I assume it’s very funny if you’re in the know.
Do you mean you don’t get why they like it or don’t feel the vibe cause it isn’t hard to explain.
I feel like I am keeping up well with the younger generation. A sometimes I feel weird about it like I should stop liking new music at some point but I haven’t yet.
That’s cool you like new music. The only new music I tend to find is commie music. I’ve always had weak music appreciating skills.
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
I don’t use dating sites, but if I did I’d definitely message the person with goofy pics like this instead of fake bs
I think the “problem” is that it’s gonna bomb your algorithm.
From what’s known they don’t tune it to like “hey this person seems to like this kidn of person” or anything it’s “this person gets a lot of positive interaction” so it’s kind of a race to the most milquetoast shit imaginable
I’d rather be alone forever fuck that shit woweee
Explain like I’m 5, please. What is ASMR.
You won’t be happy when you find out, I am pretty sure.
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This kinda thing. Sometimes they talk over it or tell a stroy.
Ok. I find that both irritating and torturous. It’s like my younger sibling trying to distract and annoy me while I’m trying to read back in the day.
I could only Only complain about the kind of things that I couldn’t fathom when my peers did it when I was young, like whatever my early 0’s equivalent was to these disgusting shoes kids these days wear and collect, saw one running around at the store the other day wearing big puffy shreck shoes That looked like they had been stung by bees and probably get thrown away after a month at most
Disgusting wasteful trash, but same as it ever was for American trends I suppose
This isn’t a young person thing at all, but Crocs aren’t fashion. They’re something I might wear to walk to the corner store or walk in the rain, but I don’t get the new appeal of them as hip.
What I’m describing is far worse than crocs
I think it’s just part what you’re saying, part irony, part you can put little greeblies on them and decorate them with fun stuff
Sounds like you’re talking about those osirises with the horrible colors
Nah I mean this type of shit
Those are slippers?
They wear em Like normal shoes tho, I see these constantly whenever there are kids about
Video tutorials.
Just give me some damn written instructions I don’t retain anything from watching someone else do it 😣
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
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.
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.
I think the rise of video tutes and video essays follows directly from that, a bunch of shit circumstances converging on a shit singularity.
Every single content creator monetizing their leftwing stuff can get fucked
Beg your rich factory magnate heir friend for money, as is tradition
OMG seriously. But also when I Google something, SEO gives me a webpage that has 2000 words of what I didn’t ask for.
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.
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
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.
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”
I need text
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