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Another seemingly strange trend is some kids uploading screenshots of technical manual PDFs and reading them out loud.
On one hand, kudos for the ingenuity. I love to see young people being entrepreneurial. On the other hand, I’ve read the PDF an hour ago, now I’m looking for hands-on personal experience with the product, to solve a very specific probelm!