This might be true, but at the end of the day I don’t care. I just want things to work out of the box.

I just download mp3 files from youtube using yt-dlp (laptop) or newpipe (android)

on linux it is easy to record the audio that is sent to the sound device. lots of programs do it.

onthespot doesn’t look too bad if you want to download from spotify directly.

I just download from youtube though. It’s very easy with yt-dlp.

Not on top of my head, but there must be something. llama.cpp and vllm have basically solved the inference problem for LLMs. What you need is a RAG solution on top that also combines it with web search.

for coding tasks you need web search and RAG. It’s not the size of the model that matters, since even the largest models find solutions online.