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Permacomputing

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Video tiredness, video appropriateness (self.permacomputing)
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I used to really like youtube for all the interesting content - especially tutorial videos of all kind. Lately I have become very tired of watching moving images for content that could be delivered in text form - where I can choose to read and take it in at my own pace, in silence.

I agree that not all content can be delivered in this way, videos are incredibly helpful with a lot of stuff, but I wish more stuff could be (also) readable instead of watchable, or even listenable. Is in part an autism/accessibility thing, but also plays into my thoughts about the appropriateness of resource use for information recording/presentation/transfer from an Solarpunk computing perspective.

What do you think?

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[–] activistPnk 2 points 11 months ago

I’m of the same mind. My entire region lost internet the other day, so I was reduced to my mobile data, which was quite expensive to use with the plan I was on ($5 per GB). Being forced to be acutely aware of my data consumption, the sheer inefficiency of video became glaringly apparent. While it’s possible to lower the video quality, it’s still something I had to look at sparingly, but as you say, so much interesting stuff is only in that format.

Same boat.. but in my case I live in that boat. This thread covers how to disable the media. If I want to watch a video I do that at public libraries. If you have some confidence in advance that audio alone is sufficient, you could visit the YT link on an Invidious instance and opt to download just the audio.