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Ignore eletrek's self-serving post, go watch the youtube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5oyVNjrUPI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5oyVNjrUPI

garciasn 3mo ago
"As always, I respect your time,” but proceeds to have a 44m+ video. Just give me the text summary and be done with it.
- xingped 3mo ago
  Yeah, these days I use the little Ask button to just give a summary of videos more and more. Most videos could have been an email. I'll usually only let videos run when I need background noise, when there's sufficient detail throughout that a summary wouldn't capture, or when it's not an informative video and there's actual value to me in letting it run, like humorous videos.
- nar001 3mo ago
  Honestly there's lots of details so I can see why it would need to be 44 minutes, and it's still a video that also has to explain complexe schemes with multiple companies too
- DemocracyFTW2 3mo ago
  Share your sentiment, but in this case the https://electrek.co https://electrek.co article mentions Ziroth / Ryan as source of the information, and I'd guess (not seen the video though) as original research it carries enough weight to warrant that amount of time (which I'm very probably not going to spend, either).
theamk 3mo ago
If there is video and a text post, I think the text post is almost always better (except for the few rare cases where the text description is inadequate, like woodworking etc ...). The long videos where author just spends time talking are annoyingly slow, and looking at graphs in video player is simply miserable. Thank eletrek for converting information yo a much faster to comprehend form!
HelloMcFly 3mo ago
I would MAYBE watch a video on this topic if it were 4-6 minutes. 44 minutes? Is that really a better use of your time?
- MisterTea 3mo ago
  > Is that really a better use of your time? Your time? That's content creators ad time.

garciasn 3mo ago

"As always, I respect your time,” but proceeds to have a 44m+ video. Just give me the text summary and be done with it.

xingped 3mo ago
Yeah, these days I use the little Ask button to just give a summary of videos more and more. Most videos could have been an email. I'll usually only let videos run when I need background noise, when there's sufficient detail throughout that a summary wouldn't capture, or when it's not an informative video and there's actual value to me in letting it run, like humorous videos.
nar001 3mo ago
Honestly there's lots of details so I can see why it would need to be 44 minutes, and it's still a video that also has to explain complexe schemes with multiple companies too
DemocracyFTW2 3mo ago
Share your sentiment, but in this case the https://electrek.co https://electrek.co article mentions Ziroth / Ryan as source of the information, and I'd guess (not seen the video though) as original research it carries enough weight to warrant that amount of time (which I'm very probably not going to spend, either).

theamk 3mo ago

If there is video and a text post, I think the text post is almost always better (except for the few rare cases where the text description is inadequate, like woodworking etc ...). The long videos where author just spends time talking are annoyingly slow, and looking at graphs in video player is simply miserable. Thank eletrek for converting information yo a much faster to comprehend form!

HelloMcFly 3mo ago

I would MAYBE watch a video on this topic if it were 4-6 minutes. 44 minutes? Is that really a better use of your time?

MisterTea 3mo ago
> Is that really a better use of your time? Your time? That's content creators ad time.