its part of the google services that microg does not replicate. there is a reason why there is a 100x-ish difference between microg and gapps packages

I dont think Andoid Auto works on MicroG, but the other apps will probably work or can atleast be made to with some prodding

sorry for not making this clear enough in my original comment:

I would be concerned that a sizable chuck of the FOSS community would refuse to join a discord, on priciple, because they won’t support a company that is going against all of their ideals.

THe problem is, Discord in’t really the type of platform for a good chunk of FOSS users though. Discord activly scans Messages vor activity that might break their ToS, even private Chats. This is a privacy violation which i and many other find to be quite uncool. This means you might lack the more privacy-focused users opinions.

Im mainly Ken-fused…

This is not a repair channel, but you might like “The Secret Life of Machines”, a small british tv sgow that explained certain technologies and was run by basically 2 british lads. one of them is still around and has a YouTube channel

bring a laptop. if you want an external one, they most of the time only need usb and if not, probably a 12V power brick

disc drives usually dont work on android unless they have a soecisl mode which “translates” the disc filesystem so it looks like FAT32 to the phones.

I dont watch too many series/movies. Never payed for streaming, planning on never doing so because of all that bullshit. I prefer my media on stamped and metallized plastic discs that work offline, or plain DRM-free video/audio files on my HDD.

for me, opening my music folder in Picard (available for download at https://picard.musicbrainz.org/) and clicking “analyze” was enough

are you sure you are not mixing up MusicBrainz (the Metadata Database) with MuiscBrainz Picard (the tool to put metadata on files)

try musicbrainz picard for the metadata

kids should not work nor “have to” work. they should have fun, get educated and well… be kids. they have more than 40 years down the road to suffer in a cubicle

i suggest a raspberry pi or similar single-board computer with either LibreELEC (good for local/NAS files or jellyfin) or a build of androidTV installed

1. Heat vaseline in a small container or on a spoon
2. Suck up into syringe
3. Inject liberally into veins switches, connectors, and other electronic moving parts that I’d like to be waterproof. (0. Cover PCB in nail polish or specially-made products)