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I sign into my account from home and work, with both machines running the same version of Linux and Firefox. My computer at home has never signed me out, but at work I get signed out randomly during the day at least once a week....

hi everyone, my parents refuse to get rid of gmail and eircom so im wondering at least whats the best foss IOS app to access them

I deleted my avatar a long time ago via the profile settings on my instance. Now I noticed that it’s still visible on other instances....

I’ll make it clear that we’re talking about ad trackers....

the non existent person has 4 key things...

I have started to receive junk mail (actual junk mail) for a car I do not own....

I have a gate mounted to a 6x8 post where the center has rotted out of the post. I am looking to fill the center of the post, rather then replace it if I could. The post itself is still solid, just hollow so the mount bolt have nothing to connect to anymore. I am thinking to try the expanding post foam inside the post, but have...

Edit: Rewording: Nonexistent problem

I want to upload some short videos to post online but I don’t want them on YouTube. Any free video host that is either open source or at least not big corp owned?

I’m trying out Trillium Note and prefering it over Obsidian. I wonder if there’s a community anywhere on Lemmy....

I recently asked a family member what they wanted for their birthday, and the answer was “cash, and B&N gift card”. To answer the question of “why not just cash”: “if it’s a gift card, I won’t feel guilty about spending it at B&N”. Depending on the answers here, I’m probably going to give them a combination....

So far I’ve used the web frontend, Jerboa, Liftoff, Contact, Voyager, and Thunder, Summit, and Voyager is the only one that will reliably show subscribed communities without periodically switching to local or all. Am I weird for wanting to mostly see what I’ve subscribed to, as opposed to wherever random communities are on...

What makes BSD stand out as its own system? I’ve been thinking about installing it in a new computer mainly for reading but I don’t know much about it.

So here’s the thing, every time I try to move away from Facebook messenger I run into the same problem, nobody else in my friends or family actually want to use a secure, private messenger app like signal or telegram, my wife, my parents, my in-laws, my friends they’re ALL on Facebook and they will never take signal...

I have noticed over the last couple of years that newer speakers no longer have grilles on them. It seems wildly unsafe to have a bare tweeter that any slight accident can destroy the expensive piece of equipment.

There are a couple of users posting stuff that I’d rather not see on social media, but instead of just blocking them, as I see value in their comments, I’d love to find a way to hide their posts....

A fascinating question because I used to intentionally make my characters Mary Sues. As a former child who used to write, for a while I never understood why people would give character traits they disagree with to the character or characters who are supposed to represent what is right in your world, since they’re the ones...

If ANY universal ordering system exists for colors, it’s the rainbow sequence....