Hey Jim,
nowadays, it’s always nice to see information as written text!
Of course nowadays this information is also there as a video, but I always like information in written form much better! And the topic (how to use the Touch probe) is not to find in the Onefinity manual, it just links to the video too, as does the Touch Probe product page, and also the FAQ section on Touch probe only links to videos (of course Charley, the manufacturer of the touch probe, also does a good job explaining Touch probing in this forum )
Nowadays, people seem to expect any information to be in video form. After the successful mass literacy and compulsory education in the course of industrialization since the 18th century in most regions of the world, are we now, due to the advent of the Internet, turning back into illiterates? When the WWW was invented and it was clear that it would become free for everyone and no one would have to pay royalties for its use, all people thought that now literacy would penetrate the last regions of the earth and the most precarious educational strata - after all, Hypertext is text, a kind of “Writing 2.0”. But what are people doing with this new invention? That’s right, share cat videos .
The Internet is full of videos today, there are hundreds, thousands of videos on every topic. And people, when looking for a piece of information, seem to type their search term into a video platform rather than an internet search engine. But why?
I always wonder, where do people find the time to watch all these videos? If I want to find a piece of information, and I enter my search term in an Internet search engine and find texts where I can immediately see if and where the information is, I find the information much, much faster. This is not possible with videos. Or have you ever tried to scan a video with “Ctrl-F” for your search term? No chance, you have to listen to the whole babble first, just to find out if the information you are looking for is there at all. But maybe nowadays all people are unemployed and have nothing to do and are used to watching TV all the time.
I also wonder where do people find the time to make the videos? If I have a piece of information and I want to make it available to others, it’s a hundred times faster for me to type it in than to stand in front of a camera and babble it out. And since it’s in text form, it can easily be found and searched.
Anyway, Onefinity has met today’s need to offer information as video, and provides the information on how to assemble and put into operation the machine as videos. The Onefinity videos are really concise, educational and easy to follow, there is nothing superfluous in them.
So the best thing to do after receiving the machine (or preferably right after ordering it) is to watch the Onefinity “Support” video playlist as a whole. It makes you a connoisseur of the machine and avoids asking obviously frequently asked (and frequently answered) questions.
Thank you Jim!