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>"Across all these videos and many other silent blank ones, every viewer seems to have their own use case. The most common, by far, is to use these videos as a
by jccalhoun 3y ago
>"Across all these videos and many other silent blank ones, every viewer seems to have their own use case. The most common, by far, is to use these videos as a way to simply keep your device on. “I keep this playing overnight so that my laptop doesn’t shutdown while downloading games,” one commenter wrote. “I have to keep this open on my phone because it’s broken and will not turn back on if it turns off,” another said.
>There are also a surprisingly large number of times when you might want your device on but the screen off. “I use this so I can have music open on another tab at night and have this open so the screen with the music on it wont shine so bright in my room,” one commenter wrote on a two-day-long video of a blank black screen. “I use this every night, put on a podcast and q this to come on next,” said another. “Unironically useful for avoiding screen burn in,” another wrote. “Big thanks <3.”"
This is a very interesting situation. Like the video of someone recording the MAX captchas with their phone instead of using the built in screen recording, my first reaction to these is "thee tech illiterate people! There is a _right_ way to do these things built into the OS!" But on reflection, if it works for them then it seems fine (I guess you could argue that it was using electricity or bandwidth). If anything it seems like a failure of the OS companies to make it clear that the OS can already do all these things.
- Aardwolf 3y agoIf only there was proper UI for these things. These days, even simple things like copy paste are being made harder and harder to discover, rather than have 1 standard way of doing it that works anywhere. If people are able to figure out how to use youtube videos to achieve what they want, they for sure would be able to do things if only the options were actually there in UI's, but options are being left out more and more to make things "slick". Regarding audio/video/brightness: this used to be super easy with analog volume dials, and screens with on/off button where your computer wouldn't (and shouldn't imho!) know that your monitor is off. I also really wish monitors with analog brightness adjust would make a return, these types of monitors don't exist for 20 years now, but I rarely adjust brightness on monitors due to the lack of that since brightness is usually deeply hidden in the menu now (somehow monitors with extremely bad quality built-in speakers that you'd never want to actually use, have easier shortcuts for audio volume than brightness)
- larrik 3y agoLargely irrelevant, but that volume control works on connected devices as well. I plug my speakers into my monitor rather than directly into my computer so that the sound goes through the HDMI port. Much handier for my laptop, I only need to plug in one thing instead of 2.
- ajsnigrutin 3y ago> Like the video of someone recording the MAX captchas with their phone instead of using the built in screen recording, my first reaction to these is "thee tech illiterate people Take phone out, record button, stop button, share button, select twitter/youtube/instagram/..., enter title/text, done. Now count the steps on a PC. Especially if it's some other persons PC, not logged into your youtube account.
- jorvi 3y agoWindows doesn't have a quick way to do this. You have to either dig into Settings, or install Powertoys and activate Powertoys Awake.