I hear you. VST/VST3 support is inconsistent through wine and while there are some alternatives to some plugins, I'm not committed enough to give up the ogs I love just yet.

To my knowledge, Recall rollout is currently only to Copilot+ PCs, and my debloated Win11 is safe for now. I'll remain vigilant, though 🫡

Working with an LLM, I've been able to use vosk and python to get something that works well, given a small delay. Using pyautogui, sounddevice, and keyboard, it works. I also implemented a toggle for transcription using a keyboard shortcut. Not as nice as having a gui and more options, but it does the job.

I'd still be interested if anyone knows of a simpler "just works" solution, but this does seem like it'll suit my needs. Hopefully others can find this helpful.

mpv is better than either imo. Was a long time vlc user who switched this past year. It's highly customizable with a bevy of support documentation, has an incredibly clean ui, and most importantly, it just works flawlessly. I highly recommend it

Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy

I've found it hard to get past the first few chapters as I'm actually trying to implement the advice. Planning the day the night before and constantly asking the question "Am I doing the most important task to achieve my goals?" during productive hours has been life-changing in actually making progress towards my projects, but also rather stressful. Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I procrastinate a lot by doing busywork- organization, cleaning, responding to lower priority inquiries, researching tangential things to the task at hand, etc. It's been a difficult habit to break