I’ve hardly used it so far, but simpleX seems promising from my limited knowledge. I highly suggest checking it out.

Is this score supposed to be going up? Seems broken xD

It only goes up after you remove the word from the list (complete three tiers on that word)

Ahhhh… “Vibe Coded”… sure thing, pal 🧐

Yes, I have a little bit of programming experience, but I am not a great programmer. And yes, I specifically stated that it was primarily coded with AI - I understand it’s controversial, which is why I was up front about it. I don’t think AI coding is great for commercial products, but this is a free and open source hobby project. . . if you don’t like it, I’m sorry, but I am not gaining anything from this. It’s as simple as move on if you don’t want to use it or help contribute to improving the project. I would love for more experienced programmers to improve on it - but I don’t have the skill-set to code this from scratch. But anyways. . . the feature works - you just didn’t try it long enough to understand the actual application (unless there is a bug I am unaware of - but it works on my end).

Sorry if this comes off as a bit rude, but it seems you saw that I coded it with AI and instantly went on the offensive without thinking about the context of the project. If you have a problem with AI, regardless of the context - than fair enough, and its understandable - but I think your critique of AI would have been better received if you simply stated the ethical dilemmas of AI as a whole, rather than simply trying to bash my little hobby project meant to help me and possibly others learn a foreign language.

Doubt you’ll get pinged for my comment edit, but I fixed the leniency - easier to draw and not be as precise on the hanzi writer. It was a super easy one line fix pretty much - thanks for the feedback, and let me know if its actually better for you or not with the change.

Thanks, I appreciate the sentiment! And yeah, I’m not sure many places to post other than this or Reddit.

Thanks! Hopefully some more experienced people eventually contribute, so I am not just slowly throwing code at a wall with AI, lol.

The hanzi drawing needs to be a bit more lenient, I can’t draw that accurately in a small touch zone on my phone

The Hanzi section is using a open source library (https://hanziwriter.org/) - so I’ll have to see if they have an easy way to adjust this.

杯子 and 杯 can both show up at the same time as “cup; glass” but only one button will work for each

Ahh yeah, I have noticed this issue - and am not sure yet the best way to tackle duplicates. I guess for now I am going to just say “it’s a feature, not a bug” /s - lol. It’s like those memory games where you have to remember the correct one lmao. No, but in all seriousness, yeah - I need to tackle this. (there are a few other issues still needing fixed too - like the font selection to choose different fonts)

This is awesome!

Thanks! It definitely needs work - but I think its at least functional enough to be useful(ish).

[EDIT]: Thinking more about the duplicates: I am not a Chinese speaker, so I wouldn’t feel comfortable doing it, but someone who has more nuance to the differences in the words could probably just update the JSON translations so that duplicates don’t exist. The JSON data for all the translations were harvested from APIs - but could easily by hand tweaked by a knowledgeable person.

[EDIT 2] Fixed leniency - easier to draw and not be as precise on the hanzi writer.

I only see 1 unrelated post in your post history. Maybe it was a different account?

Yeah, I’m not a huge fan of the AI approach, I would love to build it without, but I simply am not a good enough programmer to do it without (I have tried in the past, but eventually give up).

AI has allowed me to actually get the digital version farther than I have ever gotten it before - and on one hand it’s nice that I can actually create something, but on the other hand I am afraid it will turn off people who would have otherwise possibly been interestes in contributing. . . But without anything created at all, I would have probably a harder time getting contributors - so a catch 22 in a small way.

But yeah, my current plan is to try and get the project as far as I can using AI, in the hopes that an experienced programmer will eventually be interested in contributing and cleaning up the mess I’ve made. Probably not the smartest strategy, lol, but it’s the only one I’ve got. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Ah, ok. This clears it up a bit. So it’s moreso about the communities that are hosted on a piefed instance - as they have better moderation tools.

Thanks!

So essentially it’s just another instance? Do I need to create an account on a piefed instance to get the benefits of piefed vs Lemmy (which I’m not sure what I would actually get different).

I just signed up for lemmy (brand new here). Can someone help explain piefed? I looked it up and it seems it used the same protocalls? I downloaded voyager app to use Lemmy - do I need to do something else to use piefed? I’m sort of confused, because a cursory search sounds like piefed works on voyager as well. . . If I’m already on Lemmy, am I basically also on piefed, just a different instance?

Sorry, hopefully someone who is smarter can eli5?

Just a couple if days ago I converted my Chromebook (~4gb ram) to Linux with coreboot and installed antiX, then changed over to MX Linux, and I think MX is a great for what it is. I’m using the fluxbox window manager (provided as one of the options on MX) because it’s lightweight enough for the Chromebook, and my Chromebook runs far faster on Linux than it ever did with chromeOS.

If nothing else, I suggest looking into MX - I’m a happy customer. I think antiX was actually great too, and a bit more minimal - but the graphical interface of MX out of the box felt a bit more polished and was worth while for me.

Thanks for the thorough response :)

Honestly, the rules for this are totally different then Pai Sho rules - I just was inspired by the concept when watching Uncle Iroh when I was a kid.

It was originally inspired by Pai Sho actually, lol.

While I get what you mean about things being pre-installed for super new people to Linux/terminal. . . If it has a apt package, it’s as easy as “sudo apt install xyz”. Also, I thi k Debian comes with the synaptic package manager which makes it fairly easy to install as well. With that said though, I do see your point, as it’s one more hurdle.

Thanks for the info, I was not entirely aware about the fact that they recently changes their proprietary software approach.

Thanks for the detailed reply - great points!

Mostly, this makes sense to me - but at the end you stated that people who want to settle down and have a reliable computer for non gaming stuff - and I would think that this would be a parallel userbase for non gamers coming from windows. Granted you did say “experienced” Linux users, but I honestly find Debian to be extremely noob friendly after the initial Linux familiarization of how installing apps and such works. And with LLMs these days, troubleshooting any issues is pretty easy, especially on .deb . Idk, maybe I’ve just become a fanboy or something, but I just feel that the distro gets overlooked as an overly stable/outdated option for servers when I’ve had an absolute great experience so far as a daily driver (of course, not playing games)

I guess it makes sense that I’m comfortable with using Debian then, lol, because I don’t know what most of those things you mentioned are - haha.

Thanks for the explanation though :)