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Tonight's forecast, bright and bumpy for all you lamp lovers out there. Now back to Ron Burgundy.

So I just started using calibre on my tablet pc. I have an issue where any italicized text is put in a block with a background the same color of the body. I'm assuming this has a greater z-index so it blocks the text above and below any italicized text.

I have installed the opens-dyslexic font and am using it and it really does help. Even if it looks a little comic sans like. Pretty sure its not the font causing this and its a bg color being applied to the italicized text with a greater z-index than the body at least that what it looks like. I have used CSS since its adoption but I really hate it! I don't do any real work with it anymore.

So I was wondering if there was a general easy way to download styles and hopefully apply them to all books? It would really suck to have to find issues in css and fix them per book just to be able to read.

First book was styled nicely. Maybe there wasn't any italic in the text though.

Using the latest Calibre
OS: arch
DE: kde
On a MS Surface Pro 9

Side issue, the calibre main interface is kind of touch unfriendly in that I cant open books without the stylus or a mouse. Is that an issue for any one else? Every other part of the UI works pretty flawlessly with a finger.

Any advice is appreciated.

So I'm entirely sick of dealing with windows on my surface. It is my only device not running linux. I decided on fedora to avoid ppa hell and It is not my daily driver so arch is out as I don't want to do the maintenance.

Anyway, it usually fails with:

Any suggestions? I dont know windows well at all. To me it looks like it might be a firmware update of intel IPU on windows might be needed bit have no clue how to go about that.

An intriguing look into the bronze age collapse and the mystery of the sea peoples.

So I have been kind of bummed about the lack of a screensaver option for wayland and pining for the old days, of a land that came before. I completely understand the wayland devs perspective on this. But I'm old and nostalgic so I set out to try to find a workaround.

env -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY xscreensaver --no-splash

So xscreensaver's settings won't work which makes it hard to configure. The only solution I have is to configure it in an X session and switch back to wayland. It doesn't really have a screen lock function and really I don't need/want it to. I just wanted to have some bouncing cows on my screen while I'm listening to music doing the dishes!

Thought I'd ask if anyone knows any hacks to get xscreensavers settings working under wayland so I don't have to switch sessions? Also maybe a hack to get one of the awesome xscreensavers working as a desktop background in KDE?

A side note, a lot of work went into these screensavers and I don't think they should be lost to time or relegated to the annals of history because it's lock screen functionality is kind of obsolete. I say we deserve bouncing cows!

Searched for a few weeks and could not find any solid solution. Found a KDE thread that said it was a issue with flatpak but I don't even have flatpak installed. Others say it's Wayland, Do non KDE users on wayland get this too?

I know it's for security but it's too damned annoying to be worth it! Should I setup a tiling WM and be done with it? It really is that bad.

All I want to do is play Skyrim without seeing this every 15 minutes!

Clickbatey video title but the story is heart warming.

The ability to add users to list's separated by group. With all the crazy stuff going on it would be helpful to be able to remember who is who. Maybe with a user defined flair next to their username on their posts and comments.

I don't like blocking views I don't agree with but would like an easy way to see at a glance what kind of person I'm dealing with and make it easier to see patterns in their discussions. If they were to be overly annoying, arguing in bad faith consistently or just a propaganda mouthpiece this would make it easier to recognize.

So with some cold weather coming to some of you I thought I'd remind you that it's a great time to season your pans.

Heat your house up a bit and enjoy some food afterword.

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