For anything where practical skills are concerned (woodworking, metalworking, leatherworking, anodising stuff, etc.) I have to resort to searching on Youtube. There is, fortunately, a lot of information there in the form of tutorials and guides. Search engines are useless there. Most of the pages returned are indeed typical AI slop just there for the ad impressions.

It's extremely disheartening. I have no trust in Youtube staying accessible as a font of public knowledge. It just works out that way now.

Reddit seems hit or miss depending on the topic. Plenty of threads there where [deleted] asked a question and [disgruntled user] replied with something which has been replaced with random text by a fancy deletion tool.