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Regret — the Bad Decisions terminal client

Regret is a dependency-free terminal client for Bad Decisions services. It contains no card corpus, runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and uses the free BytesAndCoffee-hosted service by default.

$ regret deal --packs coffee
I started by talking about workplace accommodations. Somehow the channel is now discussing one hell of a robustly deployed pastebin.

Install and try it

Homebrew is the recommended macOS and Linux path and installs man regret:

brew install bytesandcoffee/tap/regret
regret health
regret deal

Cross-platform pipx alternative:

pipx install bad-decisions-client
regret health
regret deal

Plain pip also works: python -m pip install bad-decisions-client. regret doctor checks the installation, manual-page discovery, configuration, and service compatibility without changing anything.

Use

regret --list-packs
regret deal --packs base,maha
regret provenance
regret provenance --json
regret doctor

Join an ephemeral multiplayer room with Peer Pressure:

regret together ohno --name Michael

The default endpoint is https://bytes.coffee/bad-decisions. Use --api-url for another compatible deployment. Connection and API failures return a non-zero status. See the 60-second guide and multiplayer documentation.

Consequences and local state

Consequences is opt-in:

regret consequences status
regret consequences enjoy
regret consequences regret

The first interactive deal asks once when no preference exists; non-interactive runs remain disabled. regret provenance reads the protected last-draw record without contacting the API. Feedback is one mutable vote per eligible draw. Use regret identity reset or regret identity off to control the optional pseudonymous analytics identity. See Consequences.

Manual page

pipx links the page into ~/.local/share/man. A pyenv/asdf shim can hide a page installed by pip; regret doctor prints the correct MANPATH fix. The generic form is:

export MANPATH=":$(python3 -c 'import sys; print(sys.prefix)')/share/man"

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