eMarginalia
demerara@social.vivaldi.net
<p>Lifelong reader and book lover. Ebook maker. Retired application consultant. Old as dirt.<br /><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ebooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ebooks</span></a><br /><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mystery</span></a><br /><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PulpFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PulpFiction</span></a><br /><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/pulp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pulp</span></a><br /><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Calibre" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Calibre</span></a><br /><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>formatting</span></a><br /><a hre
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A bit of my experience in upgrading to #pop_os 24.04 with COSMIC and Wayland (from 22.04 pop_os/Gnome...) - just FYI You won&#39;t get java, so when stuff like Calibre plugins don&#39;t run, you will have to install it. Not obvious at first. OTOH, most of my old Gnome and KDE apps and settings programs were preserved, so be careful of them. The apps work but who knows what the sys settings stuff would do to COSMIC. Screen brightness has no built-in controls. There are a couple of apps...
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@Dtraslerwriting@mastodon.social We poor citizens need these services, and they seem pretty obvious. But we accidentally elect some legislators with evil MBA degrees. Then what we get are money-making solutions that can't, because they don't fit. Even greed can't market a letter to aunt Millie like a piece of junk fashion. Should hospitals sell your data to Amazon to stay afloat? So yes, Pratchett should be required reading for anyone to even be a candidate or a civil servant, m...
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@xylophilist@mastodon.online Imagine going into your local hardware store...I want to see a heat pump...certainly, sir, can I see your drivers license first? I'd be outta there.