Comment on Access to the LanguageTool browser extension will become paid in 2 weeks, unless you are using a local model or selfhost it

wltr@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• nykula@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  YunoHost application is here: https://apps.yunohost.org/app/languagetool

  Docs for installing LanguageTool manually are here: https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server - version 20260528 works on Debian 13 under WSL, needs openjdk-25-jre-headless and the --public option. The extension settings have a localhost option, I didn’t have to change anything else.

  Note that premium as of today costs $2.50 per month if you pay for two years in advance. Running LanguageTool on a laptop isn’t very fast for languages other than English, so paying them for the cloud might provide a better experience than self-hosting.

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  • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thanks a lot! I’d explore that. I don’t know about others here, but I’m not even considering a non-self-hosted solution. But it’s great to know upfront that it would require a powerful server to have languages other than English.

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