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Yes, we truly live in the age of useless bullshit. 99/100 talks I've watched from YouTube make me skip through the bullshit and see if there's even a single sli

• daveguy 9y ago
  1.5x and 2x speed on the desktop version of YouTube (and the ability to set playback speed in most media apps) helps with that.
  • Noseshine 9y ago
    I prefer the (open source) videospeed Chrome extension [0]. It gives me a much wider range (thus far I used up to 5 x speed; audio is blanked above 3 x speedup), 0.1 increments - and keyboard control. The latter is essential to me, I can watch sections of online lectures at high speed and quickly slow down without fumbling for the mouse to watch the few sections that demand more attention at lower speed. [0] https://github.com/igrigorik/videospeed https://github.com/igrigorik/videospeed
  • JustFYI 9y ago
    Desktop YouTube shows a preview when you mouseover on the timeline. You can get through a 1-hour talk in 20 seconds or so with that.
    • daveguy 9y ago
      Right, but at 2x you can actually watch the whole thing in half the time. If it's not too technical you can come away with 100% of the information. The more technical or unfamiliar accents the more backups you will need.