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Moved to Bitwarden from LastPass this year. Never looked back!

I'm currently still on LastPass. I've been meaning to spin up my own password manager that just stores everything locally.

I held off on using a password manager for a long time. I used an open source one for my buisness for a while but almost lost the file in a computer failure, lucky I had a backup.... . somewhere.

After that I looked at a cloud option and finally settled on one, then the business died down and I kept using it for my personal stuff. I can't believe I didn't use one earlier. Life is so much easier now, no need to go between my bad password, Medium, and strong. Everything just gets a random password now and no need to worry about a string of 2fa messages hitting my phone when a password gets pwned.

For a very long time I only used browser stored passwords; at one point I wanted to use Vivaldi on my smartphone, but at the beginning it didn't have password sync, so I had to figure out something. I think this is when I first tried LastPass, but got discouraged from using it by 1) their security incidents and 2) them removing mobile device sync from their free tier. This is when I switched over to BitWarden, which I've been using ever since; I'm currently even considering hosting my own instance of it.

I wouldn't be able to make things work without a password manager. Except in my case I can't bring myself to trust an online third-party with my password data, so I've just being using an offline personal password manager called pwsafe for close to 2 decades, it's worked out perfect for me.

I use one, but I back up my passwords once a month to an encrypted sdcard just in case.

I think it's a requirement since it's much safer than having simpler and/or reused passwords across all your accounts. Used to use LastPass and Firefox Lockwise but after various issues I'm now a happily paying user of 1password, it's great and I've converted my somewhat tech illiterate family over to it. I'd try out KeePass but there's no way I'd want to administer that for my family.

Yes, they should be used. KeepassXC FTW

aWallet & the payed option aWallet Cloud couldn't do without it anymore...

If you aren’t using a password manager today you are actually stupid and deserve any data breach disasters coming your way. It’s so easy to set one up. There’s no excuse.

I think having to use a different password for each website but struggling to remember it is determinant to the centralization of the internet, but have an anecdote as well:

Trying to send a Marshall Rosenberg video to a homeless I've sent him my health coverage instead. I immediately changed it and nothing else happened. It only took me a few minutes.

I would love to use one, but to be honest, I have not found one that I trust, so far.

The perfect "password manager" would require 2FA, has some kind of "online backup" (cloud) that I can host myself and has to be open source. So far nothing really seems to offer all this.

Ticonderoga #2

No, never. It's too unreliable, to easy to hack, lose.

• use strong password patterns
• if you begin to forget your passwords, cut down the number of services you're using

We (MSP) moved from LastPass to Keeper Security and love it. I switched my personal stuff over to it as well.

I've been rocking the new proton pass, had good luck with it so far.