I really wanted to use it, because on my Android phone I use voice input all the time.
That’s why I’m thinking it’s a problem with Speech Note and not my mic, or how I’m speaking to it.
That’s a real shame. I can type quite fast, but my hand joints called it quite a while ago. 😵
That’s cool! That would work for me!
How does this compare to “Speech Notes” (on Linux)?
Arch (and derivative) systems can install it through the AUR
Once installed, does it run as an application? I’m using Aurora, but it has DistroBox, and I’m almost certain that I’m able to get Arch programs installed through it.
Not currently available to download according to the official page:
“As of right now, Plasma Bigscreen isn’t available for public use yet. This is due to not being developed for so long. The project has been revived, but it might take a while until it becomes stable and is available for public use.”
That said, if this could run on top of the standard linux OS on my MiniPC (like Steam Big Picture), then I’d give it a go!
I’ve been using that a lot, but I wish there was a “disconnect” on the phone’s app, rather than keeping a persistent connection.
Fiy, the Mozilla Foundation is one of the highest rates charities on Charity Navigator.
They don’t always make the best choices as far as product direction, but as a charity, they are quite respectable.
I installed bluefin on my wife’s laptop, and on a spare laptop, just yesterday 🤭 It really is great.
I think I’ll be putting it on my desktop PC and keep Aurora on my daily driver Laptop.
Either way, we’re all winning 😂
Windows is free for anyone to use indefinitely… If you’re OK with a persistent watermark.
Why even add a premium to the laptop? Let the user decide to use windows as-is, pay a license, or switch to Linux. 🤭
It’s still indexing, but seems to be working as I expect. I really only want it for the contextual search, but it’s nice to know that I can do more with it if/when I move away from the Synology ecosystem. 🫣
Just for clarity, I followed the links they wanted me to follow.
The sketchy tone and vagueness while they “do stuff” after getting your email seem to have no connection to self-hosting at all.
If my intention was not to self-host, they lost me before I could even trust them enough to provide an email address 😟
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Provide your email address and agree to let us do stuff, and we’ll send you a verification email to create your account and get started.
Guys, if we’re already paranoid enough to be interested in a product like this, don’t make us paranoid to even want to “get started” using a product like this.
Sounds like a scam, even if they are totally legit.
Figured it out :) It’s indexing my media now!
And to add to that, even with vanilla Gnome, you have the option to do what you like via extensions. If you want it to look like a Mac or Windows UI, you can!
My wife doesn’t care, as long as it works. If I can set up favorites/shortcuts to the stuff she needs access to, she’s golden.
I don’t think Photoprism has contextual search. Anyway, immich installed and running on my NAS 🤭
I’m curious about your choice of Gnome for your wife, though. If she’s hopeless with computers, why give her a less (imho) intuitive DE to play with?
It’s like using a chromebook, and the less there is to click on, the better.
Any software she already uses would be available as a flatpak, so even updating is easier vs windows.
Also, it’s 1am and I’m in the middle of fiddling with a self-hosted docker image of Immich on my Synology NAS… so much for living by my own rules 😂
Are you going to talk down to me because I’m not using Arch? LOL 😆
At my age, I just want something that works. Long gone are the days when I enjoyed staying up through the night to fix shit on my computer. 🤭
I really don’t know what the problem was with Ubuntu. I had issues every time I tried… but funny enough, these problems seemed to only happen if I was running a live USB or an installed copy. Ubuntu or Mint on a VM seems to work just fine! LOL
Oh well, I’m quite happy with where I’m at now, but I’m glad that my past issues don’t seem common or “normal”.
This could be!
Interestingly enough, I was playing around with LLama, as they have speech to text to interact with their chat bot, and it converts in near real-time with very good accuracy. So I do know that things can be fast and accurate, but I wish it was in Speech Note. LOL
For now, I may just to STT through my phone on a shared document with my laptop.