I use musicbrainz Picard to sort it for me and then host it with jellyfin.

No. Everything went to shit in 12 with material 3/material you. It looks so bad. Bring back material 2.

Also of course there’s the whole privacy nightmare that android with Google services is.

Spotify and YouTube to find music. Torrenting and buying to keep it forever.

Nobody is leaving YouTube. There’s no viable alternative right now because of how expensive hosting video is.

but that doesn’t actually download from spotify

that’s a reason to buy one

This lemmy instance is running on my Pi

The empire was also a bunch of rich guys who thought they were great

Empire? Rarely

Republic? All the time

not nearly enough

I’d go with a live image of whatever distro you’re most familiar with. I usually go with the arch iso or endeavor os if I need a GUI.