For the last couple of weeks I’ve been watching car restoration videos on YouTube. I got sucked into a YouTube rabbit hole after my 3-year-old daughter caught me surfing Reddit on my phone and wanted to watch the video I was watching. It was an old Land Cruiser restoration video. This specific video became an after-dinner event for the next couple of weeks at my house.
My wife needed an oil change and her car still has the free dealership oil changes. I decided to take mine in as well because I paid $175 to continue my “MVP Service” plan for another 2 years.
About two years ago, right as the LLM craze was really popping off, I stumbled on WhisperAI–a tool released by OpenAI that let you transcribe audio (voice-to-text). I actually uncovered it when I was looking at a way to dictate some of my personal notes in Neovim (vimwiki). I found nerd-dictation [https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation] which was super amazing, but didn’t work on my macbook and died on me as linux began the march away from x11 to wayland. Nerd-dictation required some of the security…“openness” that X11 afforded. I switched to wayland to get something working on my Pop_OS! machine, and when I did that, I lost my ability to use nerd-dictation.
