Does anyone on HN actually still have YouTube videos playable on their machines?
Why? Text is so much faster to learn from and without sound and video baggage that gets added.
I understand people raised on MTV and Snapchat caring about video for fun and not caring about the wasted time. But isn't this a community focused on productivity and knowledge? YouTube is the opposite of that. Might as well watch sports or hanging out in bars. ;)
But I have learned a ton of woodworking techniques from watching build videos. There are a ton of little techniques along the way that are innate to people who have been in the industry for years and thus wouldn't be in written instructions, but I can see them and pick them up from a video. It's really hard to describe the technique for some of the resin work out there too, like getting realistic looking waterlines.
Or when I'm stuck at a certain point in a game it's a lot easier to see a video of someone doing it than read a half-assed description.