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[If this is off-topic for this community, mods please let me know and I'll delete it.]

Edit: Deleting all cookies by hand seems to have solved the problem. Probably related to the bug pointed out by @trackd@lemm.ee in the comments. Cheers!

My browser has an extension that deletes cookies left by any website as soon as all tabs with that website's domain are closed. I can whitelist some of course, but Google's domains (*.google.com,*.gmail.com) are not whitelisted.

What's strange is that if I sign into Gmail, then close the tab or even Firefox, when I go into Gmail again I'm signed in automatically. I have no automatic sign-in functionality in Firefox, so this must happen because Google is saving cookies somewhere – or am I wrong?

So I don't understand with which URL these cookies are associated with – it can't be *.google.com, because otherwise they would have been deleted.

Can anyone enlighten me about this?

[Not sure I've been able to explain myself clearly; apologies and let me know in case.]

I have degoogled myself when it comes to email, running self-hosted email & calendar (not my own server). Did it two years ago, and up to now it has worked very well. I don't miss anything from Gmail and have all the features it offered, plus some extra ones (like deleting email attachments via an email client – Gmail never deleted them, just archived them).

It's good, however, always to have a backup email address that's not connected with your hosting service. Up to now I've been using Gmail for that, but in view of recent developments, I just want to ditch the whole Google business.

I've seen that many people use Protonmail for this, and that's what I'm considering. I'd like to hear about more possibilities and experiences though. Maybe there's another provider that's friendlier or more consumer/internet-freedom oriented?

Remember this theme? By chance I stumbled on it yesterday. Had forgotten about it and hadn't listened to it in years.

I'd like to change the preferred-application order for some mimetypes/file extensions, and trying to do that through the "File associations" tab of the System Settings Module. But the changes don't stick.

A look at .xsession-errors shows that some files must be corrupted. For example I see (NB: this isn't the mimetype I'm trying to change):

Mimetype Comment Dirty: old= "application/vnd.amazon.mobi8-ebook" m_comment= "Amazon KF8 ebook format"
Entry  "application/x-mobi8-ebook"  is dirty. Saving.

and similarly for several other obscure mime-types (e.g. "x-x509-ca-cert").

I've tried a reset as described here, by renaming the ~/.local/share/mime directory, creating a new ~/.local/share/mime/packages/ one, and calling update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime. But it doesn't help. I manage to do and save one change in the File Associations settings, but after that, other changes won't stick anymore.

Something seems corrupted upstream.

Any suggestions? Cheers!

This is completely random, but... has a Gaussian distribution ever been made? It'd be absolutely hilarious :D

Sorry for the spam – mods feel free to erase!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/2011048

For years I've been using DejaVu fonts, but in the last years I had the feeling that this project had been abandoned. And indeed it has.

Does anyone know of good open-source alternatives?

I've heard of GNU Unifont, which seems still alive, but it isn't the kind of font one would use for, say, slides or websites.

Liberation and Kurinto were interesting (though not au par with DejaVu, in my opinion), but seem to have been abandoned as well.

I'm tired of Google and personally am not interested in fonts commissioned by them.

For years I've been using DejaVu fonts, but in the last years I had the feeling that this project had been abandoned. And indeed it has.

Does anyone know of good open-source alternatives?

I've heard of GNU Unifont, which seems still alive, but it isn't the kind of font one would use for, say, slides or websites.

Liberation and Kurinto were interesting (though not au par with DejaVu, in my opinion), but seem to have been abandoned as well.

I'm tired of Google and personally am not interested in fonts commissioned by them.

You can find it at /c/typography@lemmy.ca or !typography@lemmy.ca.

I was looking for such a kind of community to post a question, but a search in https://browse.feddit.de/ showed that no such community seems to exist as yet in the Fediverse. So why not creating one.

I'm often seeing links to posts on Mastodon and, when I click on them, they open in a Mastodon instance different from mine (I mean from the one where I have my account). This means that I cannot reply, boost, etc, that post.

The very roundaboundaboundabout way to solve this is to go to your instance and search/"explore" for that post.

Is there a smoother way to address this problem?

I found 1001 "beginner's guides for Mastodon" online and after reading 3 without finding any solution, I decided to ask here.

A similar problem existed with communities (and still exists with posts) in different Lemmy instances, but luckily tools like the Lemmy Instance Assistant solve this rather smoothly with a click.

PS: sorry if this sounds like a rant – it isn't. Just asking for info. I'm sure problems like this will eventually be solved in the Fediverse :)