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Re: Can anything good come out of the internet?

Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:21 am
by steve-in-kville
One thing that could be a good thing, yet I see a down side as well, is helpful YouTube videos. Gone are the days of having to get a manual and read it. Computer stuff, cooking, working on cars, guns, household appliances, etc. Search for it and someone has a vid on it.

Re: Can anything good come out of the internet?

Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 11:16 am
by Neto
We will find out when it's gone. (By what we miss. But perhaps not us, but a future generation.)

Re: Can anything good come out of the internet?

Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 11:24 am
by Josh
steve-in-kville wrote: Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:21 am One thing that could be a good thing, yet I see a down side as well, is helpful YouTube videos. Gone are the days of having to get a manual and read it. Computer stuff, cooking, working on cars, guns, household appliances, etc. Search for it and someone has a vid on it.
This is gradually being displaced by AI generated garbage with poor quality information.

Re: Can anything good come out of the internet?

Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:03 pm
by Pelerin
steve-in-kville wrote: Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:21 am One thing that could be a good thing, yet I see a down side as well, is helpful YouTube videos. Gone are the days of having to get a manual and read it. Computer stuff, cooking, working on cars, guns, household appliances, etc. Search for it and someone has a vid on it.
Today I did some panel rewiring after watching a YouTube video on how to do it and was able to do it successfully with only a few minor electrical shocks.

(Just kidding about the shocks—the rest of it is true though.)

Re: Can anything good come out of the internet?

Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:26 pm
by MaxPC
Pelerin wrote: Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:03 pm
steve-in-kville wrote: Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:21 am One thing that could be a good thing, yet I see a down side as well, is helpful YouTube videos. Gone are the days of having to get a manual and read it. Computer stuff, cooking, working on cars, guns, household appliances, etc. Search for it and someone has a vid on it.
Today I did some panel rewiring after watching a YouTube video on how to do it and was able to do it successfully with only a few minor electrical shocks.

(Just kidding about the shocks—the rest of it is true though.)
I am shocked. :D Is rewiring that straightforward?

Re: Can anything good come out of the internet?

Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:50 pm
by ken_sylvania
steve-in-kville wrote: Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:21 am One thing that could be a good thing, yet I see a down side as well, is helpful YouTube videos. Gone are the days of having to get a manual and read it. Computer stuff, cooking, working on cars, guns, household appliances, etc. Search for it and someone has a vid on it.
I would re-word that to say "Gone are the days of being able to get a manual that is readable, reliable and complete."

I hate getting manuals that seem to have been machine-translated from Chinese.

Re: Can anything good come out of the internet?

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:49 pm
by MaxPC
Another benefit of the internet is the ability to access parallel Bible translations on Biblegateway and similar websites. It certainly is better than carting around one of those bulky parallel Bibles.