diff --git a/lix/libcmd/markdown.cc b/lix/libcmd/markdown.cc
index 8e4fa94d1..c96287330 100644
--- a/lix/libcmd/markdown.cc
+++ b/lix/libcmd/markdown.cc
@@ -74,7 +74,11 @@ std::string renderMarkdownToTerminal(std::string_view markdown, StandardOutputSt
         .vmargin = 0,
 #endif /* LOWDOWN_SEPARATE_TERM_OPTS */
         .feat = LOWDOWN_COMMONMARK | LOWDOWN_FENCED | LOWDOWN_DEFLIST | LOWDOWN_TABLES,
+#ifdef LOWDOWN_CONSOLIDATED_OFLAGS
+        .oflags = LOWDOWN_NOLINK,
+#else
         .oflags = LOWDOWN_TERM_NOLINK,
+#endif /* LOWDOWN_CONSOLIDATED_OFLAGS */
     };
     if (!shouldANSI(fileno)) {
         opts.oflags |= LOWDOWN_TERM_NOANSI;
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index bede78a64..90c216bd8 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -350,6 +350,11 @@ if lowdown.version().version_compare('>= 1.4.0')
   add_project_arguments('-DLOWDOWN_SEPARATE_TERM_OPTS', language: 'cpp')
 endif
 
+# TODO(sterni): drop the corresponding #ifdef after NixOS 25.11 is EOL which still distributes lowdown < 3.0.0
+if lowdown.version().version_compare('>= 3.0.0')
+  add_project_arguments('-DLOWDOWN_CONSOLIDATED_OFLAGS', language: 'cpp')
+endif
+
 # HACK(Qyriad): rapidcheck's pkg-config doesn't include the libs lol
 # Note: technically we 'check' for rapidcheck twice, for the internal-api-docs handling above,
 # but Meson will cache the result of the first one, and the required : arguments are different.