Disclaimer: I don't have RSI, don't know much about voice controlled setups (though I remember some video with weird syllables - I managed to google up something by Tavis Rudd, though I'm not 100% sure it was that one), and don't know details about your condition. Thus can only throw around a few thoughts that come to me as possibly relevant or at least potential path to explore. Please disregard if useless to you.
For one, personally (again, not having RSI), I use an Apple-made touchpad, with my left hand. IIRC it works fine over bluetooth with any kind of machine with Bluetooth, not only Macs, though my work machines are Macs for quite a while so I may be misremembering. I bought it used, specifically to avoid creeping discomfort from using a mouse in my right hand. It seems to have helped in a major way, _for me_.
Second, for tweaking a command line and rerunning it a bunch of times in a loop, I developed a small helper app called Ultimate Plumber, or just up, though I'm not sure it'll work well with voice control. It may also be buggy or frustrating in various ways, I have trouble maintaining it, sorry. At least it's a very small codebase, FWIW, so you can maybe try forking.
Third, AFAIU, the author of the ghostty terminal also published a library, IIRC libghostty, that aims to make writing terminals easier. Maybe you could try coding something for yourself in it... though I'm fully aware it'd probably be a major time sink that you might not have time for especially now.
Good luck, regardless.
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I also long for an IPFS-like system, that would blend the Web Archive, personal bookmarks, personal websites, and personal backup, in a decentralized/federated offline-compatible fashion (also akin to Secure Scuttlebutt).
I tried to develop this, and kinda still try, but for a number of years now I'm balancing at the edge of burnout and unable to really develop much software in hobby time, lamentably. I tried to build this on IPFS first, since then trying on Iroh (an IPFS successor effort, which now has growing support for both DHT and Scuttlebutt-like mDNS).
Within this project's vision, I'd like to be able to take a website I browse, and make a bookmark (possibly annotated) to it on my website (and/or a private list), which would also automatically make a WARC and/or a text&images-only (Readability-like) archive of its contents. This would then automatically become shared through p2p with the Internet Archive and a/the DHT, building a (hopefully) growing distributed backup of hand-picked parts of the web. At the same time, it'd become my offline backup and also a collection I can browse whenever I like, also offline.
With mostly the same mechanism, I'd like to be able to backup my photos, documents, PDFs, music, videos, git repos. I'd like to be able to then easily share them with friends, but also to share them with hand-picked backup locations and machines, notably including my phone. I want to be able to also manage the storage and redundancy level of my data, for every item or group of items manually selecting which backup locations store them, or on which ones I delete them (with some grace period protecting from accidental deletion).
If somebody's interested in working together, somehow, on this, I'm more than happy to be contacted. Please note it's glacially slow on my end, though, and I can't promise any reasonable speed of co-working; also I'm rejecting any vibecoding for this (though I won't stop anyone from trying it this way; but in such case please do _not_ contact me about it).
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Disclaimer: I don't have RSI, don't know much about voice controlled setups (though I remember some video with weird syllables - I managed to google up something by Tavis Rudd, though I'm not 100% sure it was that one), and don't know details about your condition. Thus can only throw around a few thoughts that come to me as possibly relevant or at least potential path to explore. Please disregard if useless to you. For one, personally (again, not having RSI), I use an Apple-made touchpad, with my left hand. IIRC it works fine over bluetooth with any kind of machine with Bluetooth, not only Macs, though my work machines are Macs for quite a while so I may be misremembering. I bought it used, specifically to avoid creeping discomfort from using a mouse in my right hand. It seems to have helped in a major way, _for me_. Second, for tweaking a command line and rerunning it a bunch of times in a loop, I developed a small helper app called Ultimate Plumber, or just up, though I'm not sure it'll work well with voice control. It may also be buggy or frustrating in various ways, I have trouble maintaining it, sorry. At least it's a very small codebase, FWIW, so you can maybe try forking. Third, AFAIU, the author of the ghostty terminal also published a library, IIRC libghostty, that aims to make writing terminals easier. Maybe you could try coding something for yourself in it... though I'm fully aware it'd probably be a major time sink that you might not have time for especially now. Good luck, regardless.
I also long for an IPFS-like system, that would blend the Web Archive, personal bookmarks, personal websites, and personal backup, in a decentralized/federated offline-compatible fashion (also akin to Secure Scuttlebutt). I tried to develop this, and kinda still try, but for a number of years now I'm balancing at the edge of burnout and unable to really develop much software in hobby time, lamentably. I tried to build this on IPFS first, since then trying on Iroh (an IPFS successor effort, which now has growing support for both DHT and Scuttlebutt-like mDNS). Within this project's vision, I'd like to be able to take a website I browse, and make a bookmark (possibly annotated) to it on my website (and/or a private list), which would also automatically make a WARC and/or a text&images-only (Readability-like) archive of its contents. This would then automatically become shared through p2p with the Internet Archive and a/the DHT, building a (hopefully) growing distributed backup of hand-picked parts of the web. At the same time, it'd become my offline backup and also a collection I can browse whenever I like, also offline. With mostly the same mechanism, I'd like to be able to backup my photos, documents, PDFs, music, videos, git repos. I'd like to be able to then easily share them with friends, but also to share them with hand-picked backup locations and machines, notably including my phone. I want to be able to also manage the storage and redundancy level of my data, for every item or group of items manually selecting which backup locations store them, or on which ones I delete them (with some grace period protecting from accidental deletion). If somebody's interested in working together, somehow, on this, I'm more than happy to be contacted. Please note it's glacially slow on my end, though, and I can't promise any reasonable speed of co-working; also I'm rejecting any vibecoding for this (though I won't stop anyone from trying it this way; but in such case please do _not_ contact me about it).
Cool! I'll have to look deeper to see if I could use it as a base for porting akavel/catation to Rust+Iroh! (EDIT: related, do you maybe have plans to merge flipflop with andunieee/my-beloved-rubble ?) May I ask, was it vibed/LLM-assisted to some extent, or is it purely human-made?