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Re: "i wish those youtube videos i want to watch were texts i..."

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suggestion: download caption text files for yt videos you want to 'read'. Hopefully the vid author manually wrote up a cc but the auto generated ones are serviceable.

Newswaffle + some of your local news sites is great. if you live in america NOAA weather forecast in plain text work with Newswaffle too.

Lemmy has been a big hit for me. I like it much more than mastodon tbh.

๐Ÿ˜Ž Smokey

2023-08-05 ยท 5 weeks ago

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๐Ÿ™ norayr

oh i didn't know about newswaffle. it looks amazing, thank you.

๐Ÿ™ norayr

yes, and i need to learn how to download caps from yt videos.

๐Ÿš€ fperson

@Smokey, oh yeah, lemmy is better _by design_ since it's focused on communities instead of individuals. and everyone can be _heard_, regardless of the amount of followers they have. i think it's a great design. that's what made reddit so great back in the time

2023-08-08 ยท 5 weeks ago

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๐Ÿ™ norayr

i wish those youtube videos i want to watch were texts i would read. it is so hard for me to watch something. i do it by 2x speed most of the times. and sometimes it really helps to be able to listen - when doing dumb work or when driving. but still, i have this feeling that the information i'd like to watch is not there as text or i cannot find it. what would you suggest, how to change my habits and where to look for the stuff to read? i explore hacker news, but it covers mostly tech stuff.

๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 comments ยท 2023-08-04 ยท 5 weeks ago