On 18.01.26 20:58, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2026-01-19T02:11:27+0000, dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system
> discussion wrote: ... > > Are you considering Youtube? > Yes. I have an account there but have never uploaded a video. Jim > Hall's "Installing FreeDOS 1.4"[1] is very much along the lines of what > I'd like to do, assuming I can produce the thing smoothly and don't > encounter too many frustrations. > > I have zero experience with video editing beyond cutting clips; I have > more trepidation about that aspect than recording my desktop, writing a > script (from which I'm sure to deviate extemporaneously with jokes or > esoteric allusions), or speaking into a microphone. Many commenters praise a clip which is to the point, but that is in reaction to the proliferation of vacuous wafflers. Humour or esoterica are a delight which help keep the audience alert. > > There are a few awfully basic groff tutorials there, essentially > > regurgitation of manpages, > > Well, maybe. I wish they'd regurgitate THE CURRENT CONTENT OF GROFF'S > MAN PAGES. > > <takes deep breath> If they did, I could learn something ... maybe a lot, but all I've found is fatuous flummery. > > but little or nothing of substance. I'm kinda hoping that is your > > social medium of choice, not those madding crowds, beyond enduring. > > I thought YouTube _was_ the home of madding crowds, beyond enduring! > > Or do you mean Instagram? Or Tik Tok? Or whatever the disciples of > Discord and madmen of Mastodon have scrabbled together to "compete" in > the viral video "space"? The names of the asylums escaped me, but that is what so many mean by the term, seeking to normalise aberration through euphemism. You seem unlikely to find an idle moment, but if you did, viewing a "Clickspring" video before bedtime could be a fine way to wind down, at least from episode 2 onward, but James Hansen's snails-paced reviews of global warming papers will put you to sleep beforehand. Regards, Erik
