most shells will accept outputting from a silent command to a file, e.g. :> foo.txt (where : is the posix synonym to the true command)

This looks like a strong contender! Thanks!

I wasn’t precise, I meant many apps force some kind of rich-text editor that feels clunky and unnecessary, that’s what I want to avoid.

Since I’m already using NextCloud, NextCloud Notes seems like a good fit, I’m wondering how I missed it…

*enter Emacs FTFY

I published a quick configuration here: https://codeberg.org/tranzystorek-io/spectrochat

I was hesitant to use thelounge because of the self-hosting part, but it seems is fairly straightforward to spin up an instance even with just free fly.io resources

Googling ‘irc client’ is always a “blast to the past” adventure

I did give irssi a spin but it seems Cinny has spoiled me 😅

I’m using it atm, but it really feels like there should be sth more, well, FOSSy

It does, but the matrix bridge can be a bit unstable, and I wanted a native experience anyway :P

Sound capture was a major pain point here 😅 I had to hardcode an alsa loopback device identifier, and beyond that it’s very manual - loading alsa’s loopback kernel module, connecting my music player to the pipewire device and such

Thank you! I’ve made small tweaks since posting, like adding config flags to CLI, for instance --style fill will display “filled” bars instead of “striped”: