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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.
2023-08-04 · 9 months ago
😎 Smokey · 2023-08-05 at 02:29:
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.
🐙 norayr [OP] · 2023-08-05 at 10:59:
oh i didn't know about newswaffle. it looks amazing, thank you.
🐙 norayr [OP] · 2023-08-05 at 11:00:
yes, and i need to learn how to download caps from yt videos.
🚀 fperson · 2023-08-08 at 06:58:
@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