There are a lot more speech programs on Linux now. I was a bit curious and searched through the distribution package managers recently.

• Live Captions
• Linux Voice Control
• Speech Note
• Nerd Dictation
• Sherpa Speech
• Piper
• Numen

Some use Vosk or Onnx as runtimes.

Incus is worth a look. It’s the fork of LXD, a container and vm orchestration/hypervisor program for cluster setups and infra models. Incus sits on top of the lower level LXC (Linux Containers).

• Incus Documentation: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/
• Incus Package Files: https://github.com/zabbly/incus#readme
• Incus Repository: https://github.com/lxc/incus#readme
• Incus Demo: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

Some nix language gotchas I’ve experienced while using NixOS personally:

1. Avoid with expressions unless with the inherit keyword for identifying hidden attributes in scope.
2. Avoid the rec keyword unless there’s tracking/control of infinite set recursion (self naming/references).
3. Avoid importing more than 1 instance of <nixpkgs> for any evaluation chain unless there’s magic compute and “infinite” memory.

Tricky is numero three, but crucial for fast feedback regardless of the current thing? I don’t poke around as much to know anymore but; legacy, flakes, community, and possibly others.

To quiet down Firefox’s network activity at the application level:

Set global (about:policies) policies in /etc/firefox/policies/policies.json

Block untrusted connections with proxy.pac [?] in policies.json. Enable the PAC file URL in (about:settings) network settings.

Additionally user.js is configurable (mine). Firefox derivatives do similar pre-configurations. Chromium derivatives have policy settings too.