christos

christos OP , 11 months ago

Oh, the FUN parts.

I initially tried to incorporate past attempts to generate a sudoku 9x9 matrix, even added a backtracking routine that would detect and exclude duplicate solutions. Unfortunately, the whole process of generating a new puzzle was taking about 30". What is more, the outcome, although symmetrical and all, was not what I wanted. The routines were in c. You can have a look if you like:

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/c-sudoku

christos OP , 11 months ago

Hahaha, it never entered my mind!

christos OP , 11 months ago

Do you have this problem from the start? Is this the only problem you are facing? Have you installed the dependecies?

christos , 1 year ago

Very cool!

christos OP , 1 year ago

Thanks!

christos OP , 1 year ago

Oh the word list issue is a matter of great debate. I opted for using the default word list just to avoid this matter (thinking that this list is something fixed and undebatable). It might be a good idea to make the word list configurable, so that each user may use their prefered word list. Stay tuned, I might do it the very near future.

christos OP , 1 year ago

• As mentioned above, this script is using the word list contained in /usr/share/dict/words.

  If your distro doesn’t include this installed, you can install the respective package (wordlist, words) using the respective command (apt, pacman).

• ADDITIONALLY, if someone wishes to play the game using a different word list, they can do so, editing LINE 17of the wordy.sh

<span style="color:#323232;">WORD_LIST="/usr/share/dict/words"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

change to

<span style="color:#323232;">WORD_LIST="/path/to/prefered/wordlist"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

christos OP , 1 year ago

If someone wishes to play the game using a different word list, they can do so, editing LINE 17of the wordy.sh

<span style="color:#323232;">WORD_LIST="/usr/share/dict/words"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

change to

<span style="color:#323232;">WORD_LIST="/path/to/prefered/wordlist"
</span>

I have already considered this before. I know that what you propose is quite easy. However I do not want to impose any other word list (that might even be considered “proprietary”) to anyone, when the majority of the users’s systems already have the default word list. So, whoever user want any other list, they can easily edit that line and go on enjoy the game using the list they like.

Another solution is a config file instead of editing line 17. It is just as easy, but having a config file to configure just one parameter sounds not great.

christos OP , 1 year ago

Another alternative is to provide the user a few word lists (as you mentioned, they should be quite light), and from then on each one is free to choose their prefered one.

It could be done with curl as well, but then if we did that, we would have another dependency: curl.

I forgot to thank you for the feedback, and for your willlingness to help, it is appreciated.

christos , 1 year ago

Linuxmint with xfce, perfect.

christos , 1 year ago

It is, no doubt. xfce is lower though. In my 10 yo system xfce uses less ram than cinnamon.

christos , 1 year ago

I use both in my mint machine. I love both. However you see it, xfce is lighter in resources.

christos OP , 1 year ago

It goes without saying, will do.

christos OP , 1 year ago

This is very annoying, especially in wordle.

For this I chose the word list as is contained in /usr/share/dict/words, minus words with upper-case letters, words with apostrophe and words containing letters with accent marks. One minor thing I have to do is “grep” rid of latin numerals that pop up, like xxxvi,xxiv etc.

christos OP , 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Thanx for pointing out, it is now fixed in the repo and in the script, however I cannot update the preview image here on Lemmy… so this spelling error will stick out like a sore thumb.

Update: Fixed.

christos OP , 1 year ago

Thanks for this, I had no idea. I will add this to README. Which command did you use?

christos OP , 1 year ago

Hey nobody’s prefect.

christos OP , 1 year ago

Thank you for this response. I will mention /use/share/dict/words as a dependency for this script in the README. However, as I am not an Arch user, and thus not familiar with aur and respective commands, and as installing this dependency would be beyond the scope of this project, I will ommit giving precise instructions on how to install this package.

christos OP , 1 year ago

A couple of interesting features:

• The selection of letters is random, so, the number of words - solutions is also random. However the user can configure the range of the number of words - solutions, editing the ~/.config/spelion/spelion.config file. That means that the puzzle can have e.g. between 10 and 30 solutions, or between 50 and 100 etc.
• The user can avoid the frustration of not ever knowing the right answers when no other solutions come to mind: with the W option the user can browse the list of all possible solutions to the puzzle.

Thank you for your feedback, any other suggestion/correction/input is most welcome.

christos OP , 1 year ago

I already updated the README, mentioning the dependency.

Thank you very much for the feedback and the kind words!

christos OP , 1 year ago

Update: Another feature has been added to the script, lolcat helps show the Highscores in color, and therefore more fun.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/81fa787e-3ce7-44d3-9b4f-469627a33896.png

The user can configure whether the highscores are shown in color or not.

This is done again by editing the value HISCORE_COLOR (yes / no) in $HOME/.config/spelion/spelion.config

christos OP , 1 year ago

UPDATE:

The word list now is configurable.

By editing the WORD_LIST line in $HOME/.config/spelion/spelion.config, the user can play the game using another word list.

christos OP , 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Well, these things happen, especially if english is a foreign language.

Thanx for pointing out, it is now fixed.

christos OP , 1 year ago

Thank you!

christos OP , 1 year ago

A couple of interesting features:

• The selection of letters is random, so, the number of words - solutions is also random. However the user can configure the range of the number of words - solutions, editing the ~/.config/spelion/spelion.config file. That means that the puzzle can have e.g. between 10 and 30 solutions, or between 50 and 100 etc.
• The user can avoid the frustration of not ever knowing the right answers when no other solutions come to mind: with the W option the user can browse the list of all possible solutions to the puzzle.

Thank you for your feedback, any other suggestion/correction/input is most welcome.

christos OP , 1 year ago

Update: Another feature has been added to the script, lolcat helps show the Highscores in color, and therefore more fun.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/81fa787e-3ce7-44d3-9b4f-469627a33896.png

The user can configure whether the highscores are shown in color or not.

This is done again by editing the value HISCORE_COLOR (yes / no) in $HOME/.config/spelion/spelion.config

christos OP , 1 year ago

UPDATE:

The word list now is configurable.

By editing the WORD_LIST line in $HOME/.config/spelion/spelion.config, the user can play the game using another word list.

christos , 1 year ago

Looks great. Can you send a link for the wallpaper?

christos OP , 1 year ago

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christos OP , 1 year ago

😂 😂 😂 😂

christos OP , 1 year ago

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christos , 1 year ago

mxlinux? Debian based, works fine in an old mac I have

christos , 1 year ago

Do you have synaptic in your applications?

christos , 1 year ago

What?

Yes!

I need to check the source though.

OP correct the spelling: Ελλάδα, not Ελάδα.

christos , 1 year ago

Was it this?

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/magic-tape

christos OP , 1 year ago

I was considering being full “offline”, it is perfectly doable, working with yt xml requests.

The downside is that this process (so far for me) takes longer, gives less info, and mostly, although there is no image support there, is done better by terminal rss feeders like newsboat.

You cannot do everything at the same time. I may revisit this approach in the feature and put up something else.