Font Awesome is a font that uses codepoints in the “Private Use Area” for icons. (The Private Use Area is a chunk of Unicode specifically set aside for any font to put any image they want in there, instead of expecting a certain codepoint to display as a specific letter.)

To the OP: I don’t know much about this, but if you use a different app, does Arch’s Font Awesome show as the colored or B&W version? You might have to try a wide variety of apps due to competing color font standards.

I’ve been using vertical tabs for a while now. It rearranges your address bar and that’s going to take some time and annoyance to sort out, but I’ve got it back to where I like it.

Vertical tabs aren’t as great as they would have been ten years ago. So many websites nowadays use a two- or three-column layout to use the excess horizontal space on a normal screen, and having the vertical tabs showing full length often compresses those. Thankfully there’s a button to switch between full-length tabs and just the favicon for those sites.

I have often had to go into about:config to revert unwanted new behavior, but never had to downgrade.

There is a possible fix!

• Go to “about:config” in the adress bar
• Search for “browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabLayouts.variant”
• Toggle both entries for variant-a and variant-b to false

Variant-B was “true” for me.

I’ve found another bug or design issue. In vertical tab mode, a “flexible space” is forced into the toolbar to shorten the address bar and it cannot be removed. I had a longer address bar before turning vertical tabs on and it is very noticeable in a few situations.

Edit: The excess space can be suppressed by turning the title bar on. Very buggy.

Thank you!

If it matters, I’m using Windows 11.

How do you make the shortcuts on the home page larger? They suddenly shrank when I updated to 136 and that’s very annoying because I use them heavily. Even turning “recommended stories” off doesn’t fix it, but it fixes the shortcuts being tiny and the stories huge.

I’ve got it and it’s all right. I like the weather widget being more prominent.

Iosevka fits very well with East Asian characters, if you need those.

I find it narrower than I like otherwise, but I need Japanese characters often enough that I put up with it for my terminal.

I need local font support far, far more often than I need collaborative editing. Plus, call me old, but I don’t like storing everything on a server in Virginia for Google to read.

Do you have a school computer lab you can use? If the school truly requires MS Office and gives you a copy, they will have no sympathy for not using it.

I use the extension Simple Tab Groups for Firefox.

The link goes to the wrong article. I think OP meant to post https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/07/11/libreoffice-24-2-5/ .

P.S. Torrents aren’t available yet are now available.

Looks like they put the oversized load on a boat for as long as they could, but have to do the last leg by road.

gImageReader is a graphical front-end to the open-source OCR program Tesseract, so that might be just what you’re looking for. The default settings don’t add the OCR’d text to the PDF but you can do that.

Did LO discontinue distribution via torrent?

Edit: torrents are now up. Does it always take a day?

Gentoo seems great if you want to experiment with patches to major programs or system libraries. That’s what I used it for.

cURL is a very commonly used program to download individual files from the command line and worth installing to have it around in the future.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install curl

The first command tells your package manager to update its list so you ask for the latest version. You can skip it if you’ve already updated today. The second command tells your package manager to install cURL.

This will happen every now and then, especially when building a package from source. You won’t have some common utility that the documentation writer assumed you had, and you will need to find what package provides it and install the package.

From your other responses, this is a system issue not a problem with the website.

Lemmy.world’s code has this font list for sans-serif: system-ui,-apple-system,“Segoe UI”,Roboto,“Helvetica Neue”,“Noto Sans”,“Liberation Sans”,Arial,sans-serif,“Apple Color Emoji”,“Segoe UI Emoji”,“Segoe UI Symbol”,“Noto Color Emoji”

I’d use the dev tools to check which font is being rendered. I’m on Windows so I get Segoe UI, which I find entirely acceptable.