Lfrith

Why are you overusing emojis? Anyways, its been nice feeling less tied to Google services since I switched away from Gmail and moving to another email provider, and moving to foss options for services I used to use Google for.

So having less dependency on Google, and not even having to sign into Google anymore to get benefit of subscription feed, playlists, and history has been cool through freetube on desktop and other third party apps like newpipe.

You are on lemmy which is a very niche tech leaning social media that is more likely to degoogle or limit google usage. What is so bizzare about the concept of someone wanting to reduce their account dependency from a large corporate platform?

Yep FreeTube is the only one I found not working, which is what I use on the desktop.

It would be. Its been nice moving away from using a Google account.

They didn't have seat belts either. So simplest explanation is that people were still figuring out what safety features were necessary for a new invention that started gaining traction. Lot of safety regulations that came into play happened after disasters like building codes or work place regulations or food expiration. People learn from tragedy.

Like VR, meta's will probably be the best priced and have the best tech on top of it for the price, so end up getting the most market share too.

Average people will have it phone home for convenience. Just how things play out. I think the tech is cool, but not looking forward to how it'll be utilized in the end.

Its meta so they'll get their hands on that data the way peoples numbers end up in metas hands despite not having a Facebook account because people gave the app permission to contacts.

Math I put more on the side of not having to even need notes, but just understand the formula and it involves practice by doing different problems over and over so you can solve problems on exams. You can just skip class completely and solve problems from the textbook and be good to go. Math is more similar to like learning to do a jump shot and mastering it. Practice is the way to go.

So I don't put in the same category of classes that are less problem solving or less abstract concepts like philosophy.

Ones that are specific things that need to be recalled with little room for reinterpretation are ones where handwriting things isn't enough, since the answer is either right or wrong. So memorization outside of class is heavy requirement. There's just no shortcut to those type of classes and too much info to retain unless someone has a naturally great memory.

Yeah, and just handwriting notes in class and expecting to not have to study and remember everything is only going to work for classes that aren't information dense. Expecting to do that for classes like physiology or anatomy isn't going to work unless someone has amazing memory.

Not many people who would be able to list all the proper nerve and muscle locations and body mechanisms just because they sat and handwrote their notes or whatever. At a certain point few remember and it comes heavily down to studying outside of classes, and having good notes that can be referenced to make study material off of is what makes the difference.

I don't remember anything either whether I write or type. So it is important that I at least take good notes I can then study off of and make flash cards or practice. Only times I actually learned and remembered is for less information dense material like math that is centered around problem solving rather than information retention and regurgitation.

For me class isn't for remembering or learning. Just being exposed to material that can be used to study and understand outside of it.

I love digital because it is so easy to go back and reference old notes too. I use obsidian, and being able to go back and recall something I need a more detailed refresher on is so convenient.

My handwritten stuff got trashed because I'm not digging through all that and was just taking up space.

Wasn't the case for me for information dense subjects like biology related subjects. Found I didn't retain anything, but worst of all my notes were so messy I couldn't even use them, so ended up wasting time having to go back and listen to the lecture again to create notes I could study off of and make short summaries of to start memorizing.

Some exceptions to typing has been problem solving basic subjects like math where there's no rush to try to get down bunch of information, so for that I definitely go handwriting. Doesn't make sense to type that either. But, for really information dense subjects its typing all the way.