On Android you can install the ListenBrainz app and it will detect Tidal. For browsers, you can use this addon for scrobbling. There's also a desktop repack of Tidal (Tidal HiFi) that does scrobbling to ListenBrainz.
The VLC thing is specifically about software patents on AVC, HEVC and other codecs. Most of Europe doesn't recognize software patents, so anyone can implement an AVC or HEVC encoder and decoder if they want to.
Mikrotik is great for features, but their UI definitely feels ancient and you will sometimes question why something takes this many steps.
However, I've never had an plan I couldn't replicate with their routers.
The whole issue here is that Llama is explicitly not open source, as it is licensed with usage restrictions.
This makes all this just a license dispute and China has no incentive to care.
Discovered this a month ago and have been using it. It's alright, but hopefully it will improve with more users.