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Vito l'écrit — au propre.

⏰ Groq retires Vito's default model on 16 August 2026

If you use Groq for cleanup, update before that date. Groq decommissions llama-3.3-70b-versatile — the model Vito has shipped as its default — and llama-3.1-8b-instant alongside it. Left alone, your next dictation fails with a provider error.

The new default is openai/gpt-oss-120b, Groq's own mapping for the model being removed, so cleanup quality stays where it was. Existing configs migrate themselves on start: only those two exact model ids, and only against a groq.com endpoint — the same names on a local Ollama are still valid and are left alone.

The suggestion list is now the two models Groq designates production, plus two it flags preview. The preview ones carry a badge in the dropdown, because a model that can be withdrawn at short notice is exactly how this broke in the first place.

🐧 Linux: hotkeys and typing through XDG portals, and a Flatpak

Vito speaks the RemoteDesktop and GlobalShortcuts portals over D-Bus. On a Wayland desktop that means no ydotoold, no /dev/uinput udev rule and no root — you grant remote control once and it is remembered. A third backend, wtype, is preferred where it is available: it needs no daemon at all. ydotool remains the fallback for X11 and compositors without the portals, and an explicitly configured backend is always honoured.

Vito is now on Flathub-style hosting of its own: install from vinceecniv.github.io/Vito, signed with the repository key.

Which Linux download to pick:

| | Typing into other apps | Setup | |---|---|---| | AppImage | always works | ydotool needed on some desktops | | Flatpak | only where the RemoteDesktop portal exists | nothing to install |

Inside the sandbox a first dictation used to fail with ydotool not found in PATH — advice nobody could act on, since the sandbox has neither /dev/uinput nor a daemon, and the text then quietly went to the clipboard on every later attempt. Routes the sandbox cannot have are no longer offered, tried or named, and delivery falls back to the clipboard instead. A Flatpak on a desktop that cannot type now says so and points at the AppImage.

💸 OpenAI: current models, and a cost card that was wrong

The suggestions move to the GPT-5.6 family — luna for cleanup, terra for Assist, sol at the frontier. gpt-4o-mini stays in the list; it still works and is cheaper than luna.

The real fix is underneath: the cost card only ever knew gpt-4o-mini's price and showed it for every OpenAI model — off by 25× for anyone who picked the frontier model. Rates now follow the selected model.

🌍 Translations

The Linux and Flatpak strings, and the injection-backend labels that never reached the translator at all, are now in all 60 languages.

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Install

• Windows — Vito-Setup-2026.8.1.exe (per-user, no admin).
• macOS — Vito-2026.8.1.dmg — drag Vito to Applications. First launch needs right-click → Open, then two permissions (Microphone, Accessibility).
• Linux — Vito-2026.8.1-x86_64.AppImage — chmod +x and run — or the Flatpak from vinceecniv.github.io/Vito.

Checksums (SHA-256)

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Free, open-source, bring-your-own-key — no subscription. Setup guides at vito.talk.