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Permacomputing

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Computing to support life on Earth

Computing in the age of climate crisis is often wasteful and adds nothing useful to our real life communities. Here we try to find out how to change that.

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Video tiredness, video appropriateness (slrpnk.net)
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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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[–] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

I almost always find myself impatiently trying to find a single specific piece of information.

This a thousand times. Can't really skim a video. Also, written text doesn't go "HALLOOOO, noiseeee Intro music this is YT-DUDE!!! more noise wild animation your friendly tech help guy, sponsored by [brand^TM^]" at you right on the first paragraph - must be that personality thing. ;)

There will be soooo much AI BS on the internet, I'm prepping by collecting books like a madperson already.