Grazie mille! Ecco il mio primo tentativo di supporto per le traduzioni. Ho suddiviso le traduzioni italiane generate dalla macchina in un commit separato. Per ora ho tradotto solo l’applicazione web e le stringhe nel gioco Solitaire. Sentiti libero di aggiungere qualsiasi miglioramento, su github o qui o via email/matrix/qualunque cosa ti faccia comodo:

https://github.com/alexbarry/AlexGames/pull/15/commits/9e8d244998e79831ac1d3d0bcac1b9d19474f8f2

Le stringhe comuni dell’app web sono in data/strings/it.yaml, questo potrebbe non essere molto importante e ce ne sono molte di più di quanto pensassi. Le stringhe solitaire in src/lua_scripts/games/solitaire/solitaire_strings.lua sono più gestibili e potrebbero probabilmente trarre maggior beneficio dalla revisione umana (perché mancano di contesto perché sono stringhe più corte come “draw type” (“one”, “three”)).

Potrebbe essere più semplice dare un’occhiata veloce all’applicazione funzionante con le nuove stringhe, l’ho ospitata qui: https://alexbarry.net/dev/games/i18n/it.html

Probabilmente sarò impegnato per la prossima settimana o forse due, quindi non sentirti obbligato a guardarli tanto presto. Potrei anche unirli al ramo principale, ma non mostrarli automaticamente agli utenti a meno che non accettino, o almeno con un disclaimer che li traduca automaticamente.

Vorrei anche aggiungere a questa frase:

I giochi presenti sono diversi e, come detto, è possibile su alcuni è anche giocarci con altre persone all’interno della stessa rete.

Ciò è vero per la versione Android, in cui stai ospitando una versione websocket sul tuo telefono. (Questa era per lo più una bella funzionalità demo, ma è raramente utile).

Ma nella versione web, si connette a un server websocket su Internet pubblico. Chiunque abbia accesso a Internet dovrebbe essere in grado di accedervi. Quindi se apri semplicemente l’URL del sito normale, scegli un gioco, dovrebbe generare un ID casuale nel parametro URL. Quindi puoi semplicemente copiare e incollare l’URL per condividerlo con un amico e dovresti essere in grado di giocare insieme. Non devi essere sulla stessa rete. (Mi rendo conto che non è intuitivo e dovrei migliorare l’interfaccia utente, almeno mostrando l’ID multigiocatore).

E se non vuoi affidarti al mio server websocket (o anche all’HTML statico sulle pagine GitHub), sei libero di ospitarlo tu stesso, ho fornito un’immagine docker, vedi https://github.com/alexbarry/AlexGames per maggiori informazioni. (Mi dispiace che sia solo in inglese, spero che i file Docker siano abbastanza chiari)

Parte del motivo per cui ho lavorato a questo era per non dover dipendere indefinitamente da un software di hosting di terze parti e non introdurre modifiche che non mi piacciono, quindi ovviamente altri sono benvenuti alla stessa libertà :)

(Non parlo molto italiano, quindi sto usando Google Translate. Versione inglese qui sotto se la traduzione non ha senso)

Ciao, sono lo sviluppatore di questi giochi. Per favore, fatemi sapere se ci sono miglioramenti o nuovi giochi su cui vorreste che lavorassi! Ho provato a creare molti giochi come esempio e ad aggiungere una versione Android, ma non ero sicuro di quali giochi o piattaforme sarebbero stati più interessanti per le persone. Alcuni dei giochi sono incompiuti e potrebbero tutti usare una grafica migliore.

Inoltre, sarei felice di aggiungere traduzioni in italiano e in altre lingue, se fosse gradito! Almeno per i giochi più popolari, potrei aggiungere un’API per ottenere l’impostazione della lingua del browser e mostrare le stringhe appropriate.

Grazie anche all’autore per aver pubblicato questo! Non so davvero come condividere i miei progetti software, molti posti su Internet non accolgono con favore l’autopromozione.

Cool, thanks! This is what I was looking for. I’ve briefly tried playing with Nextcloud before, but this seems like another good option.

This is what I do for my own notes now, but could it work for students writing essays and that sort of thing? I suppose there must be some markdown to HTML/PDF/etc converters (also probably ODT or DOCX or whatever).

This is actually what I did when I was in school, and overall it was quite pleasant. There was some WYSIWYG LaTeX program too that I shared with some colleagues when we were working on a document together, I remember it working okay.

But I don’t see the average student, especially studying non technical stuff, to pick up LaTeX just for normal sort of essays. Even I am fairly rusty now. And honestly I don’t even know if I could have managed it during high school, where I had to write English essays and stuff with specific formatting for references. (I am grateful that my engineering education was less strict about that sort of thing).

I was hoping that someone would suggest a self hosted web document suite, I think “Nextcloud” is a popular one. Then it should work on any OS, and you don’t have to worry about syncing files. Even if you can pay to have someone else host an instance (not sure if this exists), and ideally a program that can keep a local backup synced to your PCs would be a big step in the right direction. Syncthing seems pretty great, though I haven’t used it much, and on iOS it doesn’t seem to be able to run in the background.

edit: I just read another comment that recommended OnlyOffice, this seems like another good option (source: this reply: https://lemmy.ca/comment/9415293). Aside: is there a proper way to link to a comment on lemmy that will go through your own homeserver?

What do you recommend? I love LibreOffice on Windows and Linux, and it still works well on macOS but the GUI seems weird on it, the buttons are really large. I still use it but my partner is put off by it.

I already basically get that half the time I boot into windows after an update. They say “let’s finish setting up your PC” and try to get you to pay for one drive, office, even game pass.

I’m so glad gaming on Linux has gotten to such a good state. I barely ever boot into windows now. (The “ad” on boot up is probably only once every few months, but that’s about as often as I boot into windows).

I don’t think it’s only you. I remember him saying (and even tweeting) that 2015 will be the last FPTP election if the liberals were elected. I was younger at the time but I remember a lot of people reluctantly voted for him instead of the NDP just to finally end FPTP and be able to choose the NDP as their first choice in the next election (but still choose the liberals as their second choice, to keep the conservatives out). Further reading for anyone interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_splitting

Then they won, claimed that they couldn’t find an alternative that everyone liked, and apparently that was it.

My understanding is that many people would have been happy with “anything” besides FPTP, but weren’t able to agree on their first choice? …surely it’s not that ironic? Or maybe there’s more to it than that?

Anyway overall the liberals may have still been the best choice… but this wasn’t some minor promise that he made. I think this is what was most important to a lot of people. Err… I think? No one seems to talk about it now.

edit1: added link to tweet

edit2: This article seems to summarize the timeline: https://globalnews.ca/news/3102270/justin-trudeau-liberals-electoral-reform-changing-promises/

edit3: this seems more helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Canada#2015_federal_election

Thanks for posting this (I’m the original author). It’s not clear to me where to share my projects like this, many places on the internet don’t seem to welcome any form of self promotion, even if it is open source / ad free / etc.

My original post was directed towards the self hosting community, but it should still be completely useable with the github pages version (linked in the post). And stay tuned for an Android app (and maybe iOS some day), most games are great offline. I’d love to add multiplayer over bluetooth, the main time I play games like this on my phone is when I’m on a flight or when physically with someone else.

I’d love to hear feedback, especially constructive criticism! There are some other features and new games that I’d like to add, but I’d love to hear what people actually want, instead of just what I enjoy working on.

Message me on matrix in #alexgames:matrix.org if anyone wants to try playing a multiplayer game together :)

(I’m not actually very good at chess or go)

Is it fun if one person is an experienced gamer, and the other person is more casual? (And often complains that the other person is too good :( )

Thanks a lot! Usually I’m okay up until I reach near the end … spoiler-ish warning:

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It’s also possible that I had tried to challenge myself and set the difficulty to the mid level, but forgot.

Oh, also I often find myself running out of components, and just barely making it to component manufacturing before I run out. I always buy them all from traders, and try to conserve them. But even with component manufacturing, it feels like it takes forever to make one, even if I have like ~15 colonists, where a few are dedicated crafters. Maybe I just need to stay in this stage for longer, until I can get assault rifles for everyone?

And I never really read much about strategies, I generally just like to figure it out myself, but I suck at trying new things.

I guess the main thing is that I love the part where you try to survive against natural disasters and have enough food, but I’ve never gotten too into the combat. Plus it felt like it was always pretty easy up until I got to the kinds of enemies that you encounter regularly at the end of the game.

Rimworld is probably one of my favourite games. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested. This new expansion also seems really cool, I copied two points from the steam description that stood out to me (spoiler warning! Even the steam description has a spoiler warning before these. Hopefully most lemmy clients support spoiler tags):

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spoiler warning (I notice connect on Android doesn’t yet support spoiler tags)

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That being said, I’ve only played the base game so far, and I think I’ve always played on the difficulty that is just one above peaceful, and I found it really hard near the end. But I’ve never bothered with killboxes, and I keep my colony wealth high I guess, I like to hoard food, silver, and everything. I also build floors (some people skip them to keep their wealth low). Perhaps I should have added: raid strength depends on your colony wealth (I think).

Does anyone have any tips for actually reaching the end game event? (Please use spoiler tags! I know a bit about it, but I think many people like to be surprised. Put :::spoiler some text that shows before users expand your spoiler before and ::: at the end.)

I would totally buy a modern version as long as I could use a browser, some bank and finance apps, and rideshare. And maps. And I’d probably need a touch screen. (Obviously a modem cell radio, and GPS if the original didn’t have it)

I’m sure the small screen would occasionally be difficult and maybe require custom UIs like how Android/iOS apps do for watches. But I think I could live with it. I want to use my smart phone less anyway.

Interesting! I’m not sure how I have never heard of that. It sure looks cool.

edit: oops I just realized that you seem to be referring to “how can I see the letter on the keyboard”, originally I thought you meant “how can the keyboard know which letter I’m referring to if it’s ambiguous”. For me being able to see, I roughly know where all the letters are out of habit, so it’s more muscle memory than having to look. But also my finger doesn’t tend to cover most of the screen, so maybe I can’t see letters one key away from my thumb, but I can see all the others.

TL;DR: try to do curves instead of straight lines when swiping, it helps signal that you are avoiding the letters in a straight line between two letters. I think this is essential but I’m not sure if it’s really communicated anymore.

ah, voice to text also seems really convenient. I tend to prefer being silent, but if I did more hands-free stuff then maybe I’d get more comfortable using voice to text.

With swiping, you’re right that it can be a bit ambiguous if you just move your finger in a straight line from each letter you need. There are some words that often get mixed up if you do that. What I do is make a curve between letters, especially when they are close together or seem to get mixed up (or there’s a letter in between that could plausibly be added between your two endpoints). So instead of going straight from “F” to “L” on a QWERTY keyboard, I’ll do a half circle almost, curving down to “N” and back up to “L”. This might be a bad example because it doesn’t look like there are a ton of common letter combinations between “F” and “L”, I can’t think of any right now. But when it’s especially ambiguous or close together, I think the curving helps. Also over exaggerating sometimes helps, sometimes if I was swiping to the letter “A” it would use “S” or something a bit closer. I think I was not swiping far enough, and I think there is a lot of prediction at play to figure out what is most likely based on your gestures. Overall this works pretty well, now that I’m used to it, I can’t recall any specific words that are always messed up. Mistakes do happen sometimes but generally I feel like it’s faster than any alternatives (with the possible exception of voice, but I find that I rely a lot on punctuation that isn’t always captured by voice).

RE the trail, I guess I don’t notice it anymore. It actually works well enough that I don’t need to look at the keyboard very much when doing it, I tend to just look at the output, and only look at the keyboard if it entered the wrong word. (And I do occasionally just press individual keys if I’m entering a word that isn’t in the swipe dictionary). I’d also guess that you might be able to disable the trail, there are usually configurable keyboard settings.

But then again, it might not be everyone’s thing. I had tried T9 on flip phones and never liked it, but I was used to my small QWERTY flip phone. I certainly hope that they let people swiping it if it gets in the way, I don’t think it should be forced on everyone just because I strongly prefer it.

TL;DR: I highly recommend trying and getting comfortable with swiping. I say this as a physical keyboard lover and fast normal keyboard typist. Also as someone who hates having to fix auto corrections that occasionally result from swiping.

At one point (2011-ish?) I had the droid 2 and it had a physical keyboard which I really liked, but once I tried “swiping” I stopped using the keyboard for the most part. For programming or gaming a physical keyboard on a phone is amazing (I loved playing a mario game with that keyboard, touch screens aren’t good enough for it IMO), but for general messaging, swiping is accurate enough, and super convenient IMO. I don’t think I would message people much without it.

For longer messages I often just switch to my laptop, but even this comment (which has become much longer than I intended) doesn’t feel overly painful to write via swiping.

That being said, I would still be interested in a phone with a physical keyboard if a good one exists. I did try the pinephone with a physical keyboard case, and it worked great as a mini laptop for very light terminal usage, but I feel like most of my messages on my phone are quick enough that swiping (and occasionally correcting the resulting mistakes) still feels way faster than two finger touch screen typing, and it feels fast enough to not bother folding out a keyboard.

(The physical keyboard with the pinephone was just a bit too small to comfortably type with all 5 fingers.)

My first phone was this “dual flip” Samsung U740 (I don’t remember the model number, I just looked up “dual flip”). It could be used like a normal phone when talking, but you could also open it sideways to text and use a QWERTY keyboard. I could easily text without looking, I loved it.

After that I had some moto droid with a slide out keyboard, but it was bigger and less comfortable to use.

Awesome, thanks! It’s nice to hear a perspective that is different from the mainstream. I’ve also been limited by my PC for a while, but I’ve upgraded since I last tried it, so hopefully I’ll have more luck this time.