some people don't know the value of having your password manager be a notebook
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some people don't know the value of having your password manager be a notebook
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@katzenismus What do you do if you lost it?
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@katzenismus What do you do if you lost it? @superboom12s i obviously have backups, its called writing the damn thing twice
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@superboom12s i obviously have backups, its called writing the damn thing twice@katzenismus But I mean, you would have to hurry and change every single password you have...
I used to have my passwords written in my agenda when I started high-school, but now my passwords are too complex and long to have to type them, save backups and the fact that is really insecure compared to a simple password manager...
But why do you prefer using your notebook? What else do you write there?
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@katzenismus But I mean, you would have to hurry and change every single password you have...
I used to have my passwords written in my agenda when I started high-school, but now my passwords are too complex and long to have to type them, save backups and the fact that is really insecure compared to a simple password manager...
But why do you prefer using your notebook? What else do you write there? I used to know someone that wrote their passwords down in their notebook. Remarked that it was simultaneously the best and worst way of keeping a password manager. That said, I don't think I could end up writing 15 character long passwords consisting of letters in upper and lowercase, numbers and special characters every three months when they end up looking like "Qyh%oka%U8Jr0^v".
Believe me when I say it is an absolute nuisance to type in manually which is why I just use Bitwarden with a browser extension. Not the most secure, but it gets the job done.
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@katzenismus But I mean, you would have to hurry and change every single password you have...
I used to have my passwords written in my agenda when I started high-school, but now my passwords are too complex and long to have to type them, save backups and the fact that is really insecure compared to a simple password manager...
But why do you prefer using your notebook? What else do you write there? @superboom12s my passwords are 10 characters long, i was thinking about encrypting them somehow, like running a simple encryption tool that takes a word and the string of characters and outputs a new string that i can write instead, that way you can't simply read the password and enter my accounts. but that is over complicating a simple problem. i prefer a notebook as im too clumsy with my data, i lose all my digital files at least once a yeear and not being able to access my accounts because i did something stupid with my linux distro would be devastating . -
@superboom12s my passwords are 10 characters long, i was thinking about encrypting them somehow, like running a simple encryption tool that takes a word and the string of characters and outputs a new string that i can write instead, that way you can't simply read the password and enter my accounts. but that is over complicating a simple problem. i prefer a notebook as im too clumsy with my data, i lose all my digital files at least once a yeear and not being able to access my accounts because i did something stupid with my linux distro would be devastating .That happened to me just not long ago when transferring my personal stuff from a USB drive I was using on a Chromebook back to my Steam Deck after it was repaired.
I ended up losing everything, including all my notes for my classes that year. ._.
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I used to know someone that wrote their passwords down in their notebook. Remarked that it was simultaneously the best and worst way of keeping a password manager. That said, I don't think I could end up writing 15 character long passwords consisting of letters in upper and lowercase, numbers and special characters every three months when they end up looking like "Qyh%oka%U8Jr0^v".
Believe me when I say it is an absolute nuisance to type in manually which is why I just use Bitwarden with a browser extension. Not the most secure, but it gets the job done.
@superboom12s @katzenismus@Saorsa @superboom12s i did use bitwarden before settling on the notebook solution. the thought of having my accounts stollen by some third party because bitwarden did an oopsy was unsettling for me. i know they probably have some encryption method for it but im to schizo for that shit -
@Saorsa @superboom12s i did use bitwarden before settling on the notebook solution. the thought of having my accounts stollen by some third party because bitwarden did an oopsy was unsettling for me. i know they probably have some encryption method for it but im to schizo for that shitYou could just self-host Bitwarden rather than relying on a third party for password management. That or use KeePassXC which stores your passwords locally.
Could even encrypt a USB drive and keep the passwords there. Effectively a digital equivalent of your notebook.
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You could just self-host Bitwarden rather than relying on a third party for password management. That or use KeePassXC which stores your passwords locally.
Could even encrypt a USB drive and keep the passwords there. Effectively a digital equivalent of your notebook.
@katzenismus @superboom12s@Saorsa @superboom12s actually i kind of forgot that keepassxc exists, i remember wanting to use it but didn't have a spare flashdrive at the time. i will defnitly use it over having to manually type out wither each charecter is upercase or not and wandering if that is an a or a d -
@superboom12s my passwords are 10 characters long, i was thinking about encrypting them somehow, like running a simple encryption tool that takes a word and the string of characters and outputs a new string that i can write instead, that way you can't simply read the password and enter my accounts. but that is over complicating a simple problem. i prefer a notebook as im too clumsy with my data, i lose all my digital files at least once a yeear and not being able to access my accounts because i did something stupid with my linux distro would be devastating .@katzenismus Oh my god loosing all your data once a year is a pretty good reason to write it on a notebook-
But if you have that problem, you could partition your drives so you don't actually loose EVERYTHING (then automount so you don't feel any differences) or simple using an external drive, I would find it better than using a notebook each time, personally... -
@katzenismus Oh my god loosing all your data once a year is a pretty good reason to write it on a notebook-
But if you have that problem, you could partition your drives so you don't actually loose EVERYTHING (then automount so you don't feel any differences) or simple using an external drive, I would find it better than using a notebook each time, personally...@superboom12s you would be impressed by the ways i loose my data. i remember wanting to backup my stuff to a usb stick, coppied the file to my stick and then deleted it from my main drive for some reason, and then finding out that my files failed to copy because i deleted them from my main.