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Youtube "how to" videos are mostly useless

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Mechatrommer:
just popping up in my channel again (i was looking for this kind of guy yestesrday i couldnt find)... is this OP talking about? if you can spend 50 minutes (i dont) on how to (100 days) build fighter boat ;D check his channel i dont know what he's doing for a living... at least sometime he can give me some idea...


Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: Mechatrommer on March 21, 2024, 08:42:46 pm ---is this OP talking about?
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Can you tell the difference between a "how to" video and a 'here's a thing I made in 100 days' video?  I'm serious, and not trying to be snarky or anything.

We're not talking about work log videos.  I watch Cutting Edge Engineering Australia every Friday, Bad Obsession Motorsport whenever they get off their arses to publish a video, Frank Howarth's and Keith Rucker's work log videos, yes.  Nobody is complaining about those, because those videos are about what they do for fun or profit or both.

We're also not talking about videos that show how to replace the battery on a specific model tablet without breaking it, or how to reach a particularly tricky doodad on some model of cars.  Those are fine, too, because they show a procedure that should not cause any damage while doing it.

We're talking about the crappy videos that are supposed to help others but really do not, because the person does not understand what they're doing.
For example, consider a video where someone is showing how you can tell a battery is almost depleted by simply measuring the cell voltage with a voltmeter.
That is bullshit, because you need to load the battery (with a series resistor) to see what kind of a voltage it has under load to tell how depleted it is.

soldar:

--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on March 21, 2024, 10:27:34 pm ---Can you tell the difference between a "how to" video and a 'here's a thing I made in 100 days' video?  I'm serious, and not trying to be snarky or anything.

We're not talking about work log videos.  I watch Cutting Edge Engineering Australia every Friday, Bad Obsession Motorsport whenever they get off their arses to publish a video, Frank Howarth's and Keith Rucker's work log videos, yes.  Nobody is complaining about those, because those videos are about what they do for fun or profit or both.

We're also not talking about videos that show how to replace the battery on a specific model tablet without breaking it, or how to reach a particularly tricky doodad on some model of cars.  Those are fine, too, because they show a procedure that should not cause any damage while doing it.

We're talking about the crappy videos that are supposed to help others but really do not, because the person does not understand what they're doing.
For example, consider a video where someone is showing how you can tell a battery is almost depleted by simply measuring the cell voltage with a voltmeter.
That is bullshit, because you need to load the battery (with a series resistor) to see what kind of a voltage it has under load to tell how depleted it is.
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Exactly!

Before there was the Internet there was Norm Abram and his New Yankee Workshop. In every project he would start out by showing the finished product; what he was going to build. Whether it be a greenhouse, a shaker chair, an amish cupboard, whatever, he would show it, describe it, point out what made it special, things to pay attention to.

HE would then make the parts but explaining very precisely why he was doing it that way, why that joint needed to go that way, why this part needed to be glued before that other part, etc. It was not just him working with the machines and without explanation.

Those programs were very well scripted and were very useful if you ever wanted to build those projects but even if you were just watching you would learn useful techniques.

Watching a guy cutting lumber on the table saw without explanation is a waste of time that gets you nowhere.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: soldar on March 21, 2024, 11:12:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on March 21, 2024, 10:27:34 pm ---Can you tell the difference between a "how to" video and a 'here's a thing I made in 100 days' video?  I'm serious, and not trying to be snarky or anything.

We're not talking about work log videos.  I watch Cutting Edge Engineering Australia every Friday, Bad Obsession Motorsport whenever they get off their arses to publish a video, Frank Howarth's and Keith Rucker's work log videos, yes.  Nobody is complaining about those, because those videos are about what they do for fun or profit or both.

We're also not talking about videos that show how to replace the battery on a specific model tablet without breaking it, or how to reach a particularly tricky doodad on some model of cars.  Those are fine, too, because they show a procedure that should not cause any damage while doing it.

We're talking about the crappy videos that are supposed to help others but really do not, because the person does not understand what they're doing.
For example, consider a video where someone is showing how you can tell a battery is almost depleted by simply measuring the cell voltage with a voltmeter.
That is bullshit, because you need to load the battery (with a series resistor) to see what kind of a voltage it has under load to tell how depleted it is.
--- End quote ---
Exactly!

Before there was the Internet there was Norm Abram and his New Yankee Workshop. In every project he would start out by showing the finished product; what he was going to build. Whether it be a greenhouse, a shaker chair, an amish cupboard, whatever, he would show it, describe it, point out what made it special, things to pay attention to.

HE would then make the parts but explaining very precisely why he was doing it that way, why that joint needed to go that way, why this part needed to be glued before that other part, etc. It was not just him working with the machines and without explanation.

Those programs were very well scripted and were very useful if you ever wanted to build those projects but even if you were just watching you would learn useful techniques.

Watching a guy cutting lumber on the table saw without explanation is a waste of time that gets you nowhere.

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Yup, to both of those posts.

The idiocracy of yoootoob videos stops youngsters from realising how good videos can be.

SiliconWizard:
I still don't get the problem.
How did you do when you didn't have YT videos?

Anyone can make YT videos, and for just any kind of motive. Statistically, what do you think are the odds of a given video meeting your expectations? Practically zero. And that's normal. If you find some channels with great content that meets your expectations, great, enjoy. Otherwise? What point is there to make? It's just a completely "open" platform at zero direct cost (if one has a problem with the indirect costs, frankly the best would be to just go elsewhere), so complaining is exactly like, say, listening to hundreds of people in a meeting on some topic and coming back with "wow, those guys really suck!" Yeah? :-//

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