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Show HN: TalkType – Offline Linux Speech-to-Text (Whisper, Wayland, AppImage)(github.com)
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by ronb1964 6mo ago
Funny timing — I tried to submit my own Show HN today for a small Linux app I've been building and got blocked because my account is too new. Spent the afternoon reading through HN threads to build up some karma instead. Feels like the
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by ronb1964 6mo ago
I went the opposite direction. I'm running a 45" LG UltraGear curved ultrawide OLED at 3440x1440. At first I thought the real estate would make me more productive. What actually happened is I have apps spread across the whole thin
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by ronb1964 6mo ago
Hacker News itself is a good example — no JavaScript bloat, loads instantly, works on anything. I also appreciate sites where you can actually find what you came for without dismissing three popups and a newsletter signup first. As someone
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by ronb1964 6mo ago
I have Ollama installed on my Linux desktop with Alpaca as the frontend, but honestly I haven't done much with it beyond poking around. I also built a local speech-to-text app using Claude Code that runs Whisper offline, so I'm cl
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by ronb1964 6mo ago
I'm a Linux user who wanted exactly this but for Linux — so I ended up building it myself. It's called TalkType, it runs Whisper locally for offline speech-to-text. The privacy angle was a big reason I went local from the start —
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by ronb1964 6mo ago
I build off-grid camper vans for a living and install solar + lithium battery systems regularly. The technology has matured a lot in the last few years. What used to take a massive roof array and a bank of heavy lead-acid or AGM batteries t