I can competently recall how to get the first layer and a bit more to ~46% done but need to brush up on the rest.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzy1JJC8nJ4
WordAll #523 completed in 1m 02s (hit the wrong key)
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 794 2/6* (doesn't count. I have three primary starting words, unless bored, and today's was close enough it's just luck)
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #578 1/6 (100%) (did recognise it but needed a map for 4 of her neighbours)
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⭐⭐⭐🪙
La palabra del día #593 6/6 (that's the Wordle trap)
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🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #590 4/6 (acceptable)
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Framed #529 (and I'd seen this one. Almost a "memorable nothing" which is an oxymoron but sums up that it was good enough to be memorable but I can't remember the specifics)
🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥
Tried to do the wordall just now and my brain isn't working at all because I'm a bit tired. Very annoying. I'll try again tomorrow.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=_hrDEAmRVs0
I'll maybe do WordAll tonight but haven't the time this AM.
Wordle 793 5/6* (arse - a trap. The worst thing is I thought they'd done 3 & 4 already but dismissed that thought. Or another way to look at it is a 1/4 on 3)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #577 4/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟨⬛⬛➡️
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛↖️
🟩🟩🟩🟨⬛↖️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
⭐⭐⭐🏙️🪙
La palabra del día #592 5/6 (should have been 4 - obvious words first)
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🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #589 5/6 (this was slang and also tricky)
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Framed #528 (I haven't actually seen this but recognise it as a cultural reference)
🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=SrRuh5VIWeg
WordAll #521 completed in 57s (did this last)
🟩🟩🟩🟩 👈 perfect game!
wordall.xyz
Wordle 792 5/6* (I mistyped yesterday and just noticed. It was 18 6s in 231 games. It's actually closer to 1/5 5s or 49. Sorry. I'm a bad thumbist before midday. This score and mistake are arse)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #576 2/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨↖️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
⭐⭐⭐🏙️🪙
La palabra del día #591 5/6 (bumbags)
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⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #588 3/6 (oh well, at least I have French wordle today)
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Framed #527
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When they've run out of secondary and tertiary characters Disney are going to do a Star Wars spin off about the repair droids on the Death Star. I like Star Wars - the first film I watched at a cinema was The Return of the Jedi. I just wish Micky Mouse would pick up Ancillary Justice or Children of Time or a host of others recent-ish space sci-fi rather than doubling down and spamming me with Star Wars universe adverts.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_P3Pu3NAI
WordAll #520 completed in 56s (I did this one last. Suboptimum sleep)
🟩🟩🟩🟩 👈 perfect game!
wordall.xyz
Wordle 791 6/6* (I have got 5 in 18 of 232 games. This was a tough one for standard opening words)
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⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩⬛🟨🟨
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #575 2/6 (100%) (sort of cheated, still crap)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨⬆️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
⭐⭐🪙
La palabra del día #590 6/6 (obvious but blind to it this AM. Always obvious words first in all Wordle universes.)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #587 4/6
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⬛🟨⬛🟩🟩
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Framed #526
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The Joy Formidable - The Better Me
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=kY93Vl6W_SM
WordAll #519 completed in 41s
🟩🟩🟩🟩 👈 perfect game!
wordall.xyz
Wordle 790 4/6* (1/2 chance on 3. Acceptable.)
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🟨🟨🟩🟩⬛
🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #574 2/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨➡️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
⭐⭐⭐🪙
La palabra del día #589 4/6 (acceptable)
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #586 6/6 (arse)
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
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Framed #525
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Robots In Disguise - Postcards From
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=JehmVaEDJkI
WordAll #518 completed in 4m 40s (brain freeze on two)
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 789 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #573 2/6 (100%) (I cheat and I'm terrible with countries on that continent)
🟩🟩🟩🟨⬛⬇️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #585 3/6
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La palabra del día #588 4/6 (there was a 1/3 chance of a 3/3/3 on the Wordle type thing today)
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⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
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Framed #524
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Blog post. Paranormal: The Girl, The Ghost, and the Gravestone:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=igkb3quWVeY
WordAll #517 completed in 1m 30s (regression to the mean day)
🟩🟩🟩🟩 👈 perfect game! (The trick with this one, I think, is to get two words that are different enough at the start)
wordall.xyz
Wordle 788 4/6* (My British bias cost me a 3)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #572 2/6 (100%) (Kind of an easy one, although I think they've changed the neighbours algorithm)
🟩🟩🟨⬛⬛➡️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
⭐⭐⭐🏙️🪙
La palabra del día #587 4/6 (found this hardest today, but now I know I know - relates to an English word)
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🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #584 4/6 (went for a shared English word first)
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Framed #523
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Wild Beasts - Devil's Crayon (acoustic) [I hate crappy accoustic versions of memorable songs used in adverts. This acoustic version is by the band itself and better than the tarted up version.]
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=uBlGW47_5xU
A day of difficult word puzzles and a bleary-eyed start. I don't play it because I always do well.
WordAll #516 completed in 1m 14s (did this one last)
🟩🟩🟩🟩 👈 perfect game!
wordall.xyz
Wordle 787 5/6* (found this difficult. I did change my starting word. Not sure that made a difference)
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🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #571 2/6 (100%) (I cheat on Africa)
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛⬇️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
⭐⭐⭐🪙
La palabra del día #586 5/6 (should have been 4 or 3. Always the most likely first. My brain wasn't working in English. Let alone languages I don't speak.)
🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #583 5/6 (as an English speaker the prefix wasn't unheard of but this French word isn't one I've heard frequently enough)
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Framed #522
🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=PIz4R9Lqb8c
WordAll #515 completed in 51s
🟩🟩🟩🟩 👈 perfect game!
wordall.xyz
Wordle 786 3/6*
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #570 2/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛↗️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
⭐⭐⭐🏙️🪙
La palabra del día #585 5/6 (arse, ditto in adcance, marginally worse percentages. Spanish is less English than French)
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⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩
🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #582 💀/6 (arse - broke my 25 streak. I'm 93% successful with mostly 4/5 with 3s in 3rd place. I have inadvertently inculcated bits over time)
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Framed #521
🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛
This is boring.
I find Windows 11 font scaling/anti-aliasing and tiling windows implementation needlessly frustrating. The tiling windows implementation is good but I'd like it to default to snap tiling. Make the old windows (<=10) behaviour the exception. As such if I have one application taking up the screen and I open another it doesn't automatically split the screen.
It's fairly trivial to do so - just have a window in focus, press "windows key Z" then it use the arrow key to place the window wherever, but it should default to that behaviour (I think it will in subsequent versions). Or "windows key + arrows", which is how I do it.
It is too easy to confuse apps on the desktop screen because apps do not appear in the same order as they do in snap groups.
The default font scaling makes a reasonable HD screen seem claustrophobic. So I turned the default font scaling (which was set to 150%) down to 100% and, I think because of anti-aliasing, it looked a bit crap. So I turned off font smoothing and did the clear type calibration. It looked better but the fonts were too small when in subscript. So back up a bit 125%.
Seems like a lot of mucking around for something really should scale properly on a standard 1920x1080 display. I can only think the typical use case is assumed to be one maximised application at a time, or larger screens. Or maybe multiple screens. Surely lots of people run it on a laptop?
Anyway, tedious rant aside, it's now nearly as useful as the i3 window manager but slower and more obtrusive. In terms of UI experience many Linux distros have equalised with the Windows experience. I did not see that coming.
Also, not new: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager but I'd prefer Microsoft adopt good stuff rather than ignoring it. Windows 11 is nearly there just needs less widgetry and far less fluff (although Weezer's ear worm and Encarta were pretty cool). My phone is for weather and news. Mostly not my laptop.
Guerilla Toss - What Would The Odd Do? https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=1CNFXE5kY88
WordAll #514 completed in 3m 46s (one of the words was a word. The other was just me not paying proper attention to a letter that was blanked. I try not to guess in advance and just go straight in.)
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 785 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #569 2/6 (100%)
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
⭐⭐⭐🏙️
La palabra del día #584 6/6 (found this one very difficult today)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #581 5/6 (not as difficult but still a crap score)
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Framed #520
🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥
I've bemoaned the Pixel's lack of focus options with the Google camera app but I've also come to realise that it's also a bees on lavender thing. It's the bee catnip. So by the time the focus has locked they're on to something else. The copious lavender also doesn't help auto-focus. Anyway, one shot I'm ok with (put of about 30+), a crop, no zoom lense phone screen etc. Developed with the Rawtherapee fork ART.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=BVR92wAGVfE
WordAll #513 completed in 7m 44s (first two <1min, dug a mental hole for the next six minutes. My best time is 40 seconds, worst 30 minutes - kept getting calls, average time 4 minutes. In 206 games)
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 784 3/6* (kind of luck because I had a 'most likely' choice of 3 words on word 3. So may count in the stats but more luck than skill in that instance)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #568 4/6 (100%) (haha it crashed the population/currency question)
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🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛➡️
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛⬅️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
⭐⭐⭐
La palabra del día #583 5/6 (arse)
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⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #580 4/6 (arse. Ish.)
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Framed #519 (I saw this at the cinema)
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Scrivener 3 ( https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview ) is significantly better than the early (talking pre 2018) Windows versions. Which was the last time I used it. Scrivener doesn't really do anything that can't be done in multiple other ways (With Linux I have used Vim + UndoTree + Vimwiki , PCManFM and folders, in a similar way, for hobby stuff with LibreOffice for final formatting - VimWiki is an ace note taking tool) but..
Scrivener does it all in a very coherent, consistent, logical way. I didn't pay for the upgrade because I when I originally bought Scrivener it was so far behind the Mac version they incentivised Windows users* with a free upgrade. Shame there isn't a Linux version, given it uses Qt - on the other hand, it must be such a minority of users it makes little sense to concentrate much effort on a native port.
Like the best professional software it does nothing for a person other than making it easier for the person to do stuff they know how to do. Not stuff they don't. Like a ukulele or a skateboard or a pen. A recommended piece of software. That said, George R. R. Martin used WordStar with DOS so maybe going too retro makes a person more likely to write, albeit very successful, fantasy novels. The tools, probably, matter less than the text. I say probably because a chisel or laser is probably essential under some circumstances.
* Which is why I only used it briefly.
Today the mint (mint basically grows like a weed) is absolutely covered with these little (~1cm) moths and the occasional bee. Picture taken at lunch. A cropped image developed from raw with the RawTherapee fork ART.
Orbita -l One Big Moment
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYrPMOsxbq0
WordAll #512 completed in 1m 46s (I did this one last today because I woke up a bit wrong and was woken at 3am by an aircraft)
🟩🟩🟩🟩 👈 perfect game!
wordall.xyz
Wordle 783 5/6* (did this first: the obvious words can be harder, and my sinuses are being made love to by jagged sand)
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⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #567 1/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
⭐⭐⭐🏙️🪙
La palabra del día #582 4/6 (I watched ep3 of La Silencio, Netflix, last night and I don't know if I'm stupider or smarter, both probably, than many of the reviewers but it was quite good. Not the best but no worse than The Sinner or half the crap they think is good)
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🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #579 4/6 (as a non-French speaker I have a tendency to go for words that are spelt the same in English but mean something different. Cost me a 3 here)
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Framed #518 (I try not to watch good films because of normal distribution)
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Total time 12 minutes. 20 minutes choosing a track.