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If you have #dyslexia , do alternative fonts in apps help with the reading experience?

If yes, are Atkinson Hyperlegible or OpenDyslexic useful fonts to use with #Tusky? Are there others (that are freely redistributable).

The attached screenshots show what this would look like.

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From #CTAN:

Cédric Pierquet submitted the wordle package.

Version: 0.1.0 2023-07-12
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Create wordle grids

ctan.org/pkg/wordle

#TeXLaTeX #Wordle

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Texto-plano.xyz es una comunidad informática de habla hispana, abierta e independiente. Esta máquina de acceso seguro muy pequeña hospeda medios telemáticos de aprendizaje recreativo, cooperativo, minimalistas y no comerciales.

Usando la línea de comandos y recursos comunitarios humildes, podrás dar rienda suelta a potentes aplicaciones orientados al texto.

Es la primer tilde en castellano y forma parte del Tildeverso (tildeverse.org). 💻

#textoplano #unix #retrocomputación #computacion #ssh

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the LXQT custom command widget + some shell scripts = "keystrokes per active window" bar.

Now I'll get that nano feel everywhere.

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Today I heard SQL pronounced as “squeal” and my life will never be the same.

My squeal.

Postgre-squeal.

Squeal-lite.

The opportunities are endless.

No names in the checkout history... I love yanking rectangles in emacs. /lh

Sometimes I click on some random thing on the internet. Then the big hard drive starts to make noise like a Geiger counter near a hot source.

How many roentgens will I receive today while visiting the web?-

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If you're one of the 17 people who hate the xconsole, why?

Do you know you can pipe any output to it? It is there so you don't need a taskbar/systray.

$ echo 'hi' >/dev/console

Imagine the possibilities...

#openbsd (#uxn catclock.rom)

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When I started this venture, all I wanted was an ISS Tracker on my #RC2014. #fujinet

backports means software that's been "ported" to an older distro. I'm gonna keep the picture of a shady alley near the docks of merchant ships. Where you can adquire the packages that work on your system.

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Noctis was - at one point - the Italian No Man' Sky. In less than 5 MB it allowed users to explore a whole galaxy. It was developed by a programmer who has since isolated himself and who described Noctis as "telling my dreams to the computer".
I interviewed the developer and reconstructed the history of the title for Time Extension timeextension.com/features/the

The time when you could have your entire distro inside a single physical drive, comfortably, is over for me.

I tried for so many years to use a vertical screen... I just placed it horizontally... Not only that, but I feel like I'm home again.

#2 Entry on the Debian-Kindle ordeal: The Kindle hangs every single time I try to install anything with apt. So, I connected the Kindle to my rpi, did a chroot to the image that contains the system. And now everything works.

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