I don’t see it that way. To me, it seems that there is a lot more great music available, and it takes much less effort to find it. Mass-market music is lowest-common-denominator crap, but that became the case somewhere in the 90s and hasn’t changed since.

The sweet spot is to find artists who are popular on streaming services, but not nearly as popular as the heavily-marketed acts that fill stadiums. Then branch out from there. Maybe check out community playlists that don’t contain big name acts and add anything that resonates to your own lists to get started?

YouTube has been great for science content, but the algorithm is mediocre at best for me. It still pushes crap I have never shown an interest in, and keeps popping up the same ones I already marked as “not interested.”

LLMs can be good if it is a narrowly-defined subject, but it’s hard to tell when it’s running off the rails. Perhaps if it were possible to create an authoritative training data set, but that’s not on any VC funded company’s agenda.

It isn’t much of a challenge if they suck. Just planning to make them doesn’t mean shit.

Also, why do none of these articles have a summary posted for them? These are some seriously low effort posts.

I’m an experienced technologist (a software engineer for over 30 years), I used to regularly install CyanogenMod on my phones. While I didn’t find the graphene OS installation to be particularly difficult, I did find actually using it to be too much of a challenge to live with every day. The biggest single problem I can recall is that I could not do any group SMS texts. Many searches and attempts at fixes later, I realized that it was a known bug that for reasons unknown did not seem to affect all users. There were a number of minor annoyances in addition to that bug.

That may reflect more on how Google has locked down things on the pixel phones, or other stuff they’ve done to keep things as proprietary as possible in their software and devices. I switched back because it wasn’t worth the hassle to me.