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Gone back to #BitWarden after using #GooglePasswordManager (GPW).

My family uses GPW. I'm over 60 and wanted them to have access to me accounts in the future.

But GPW is missing important features:

* Won't create my preferred 24 char character passwords

* Only supports passwords for website -- I store other types of secure data as well

* Can't add custom fields (not a huge problem, but it's handy)

Can't believe Google missed these.

I like #Bitwarden but it does not function on Reset Password forms, it will suggest a password, and if you don't manually save it, it gleefully forgets it. Doesn't even offer a save prompt like it does when adding a new login.

The one time Chrome's password manager has been clearly superior.

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@thurrott Leave it to Microsoft to worsen security and features.

For those who actually like a password manager, may I suggest moving to Bitwarden. Works great, can store a passkey if you like to move to them. But will also continue to use old school username and passwords for the sites not moving or if that's your preference. Will continue to have the fill.

Recommend 2FAS for the 2fa/mfa codes.

I recently found out that #Bitwarden supports storing Passkeys in its free tier, but storing TOTP secrets only in paid plans.

It's hard to describe exactly how I feel, but I think I'm … insulted?

For wtv reason, messing around with the 'Unlock with Biometrics' option for a vault on the #Bitwarden app on #Android was able to fuck with all configured/saved biometrics authentication on the phone/system level.

Unlike
#Apple's #iOS, Android couldn't do basic shit like enforcing a common share sheet or photo/media picker across the entire system/all apps, or offer basic functionality like a native weather app, even a TODO app is a pretty new addition after all these decades somehow, Apple's Notes app keeps introducing hilariously unnecessary but powerful new features and Google's somehow couldn't even support #Markdown, you couldn't do apparently "advanced", "power user" functionality either like setting up multiple lock screens or mounting a remote share in the native Files app despite being the more 'customisable' OS, and you couldn't completely uninstall/remove something like 90% of #Google apps from your phone or install PWAs using any apps other than #Chrome despite supposedly being the more 'open' OS, when you could do all these on iOS.

...and yet... toggling the option to use/not use biometrics on a completely unrelated app i.e. Bitwarden has somehow managed to fuck biometric authentication on a whole system level? I swear Android is only meant for kids, 'cept not either cos Google loves setting non-privacy preserving settings as defaults
AND in cases where they're not the default, constantly bug you to do so while sneakily already toggling said setting for you in their own scummy favour i.e. literally every single time you launch the #GooglePhotos app, and I've seen plenty of people complain that they 'never' turned on the option to sync to Google Photos and yet their photos have all been uploaded to their servers, why? Well bcos of this shit I'd just described - people, kids and elderlies esp, would almost def 'dismiss' these scammy, buggy prompts by unknowingly say, 'OK'.

I shit on Apple a lot, and still do, but thank god Android's not the only fucking option cos while Google's at least just as evil as Apple, one clearly is more competent and less blatant in their evilness (for better or worse) than the other.

I've been playing with #Bitwarden's ssh agent integration. For me, it needs more time to bake compared to #KeePassXC's implementation. Every use results in an "Unknown App" popup that needs to be confirmed. The key generator only supports passwordless keys (you can import, however). I few other problems too. I found repo issues for all of this, so I'll have to check back in after a few months. But, this has made me appreciate KeePassXC even more.

I've just published a #Vaultwarden #Helm chart on my chart repo 🎉

For those who'd like to self-host
#Bitwarden on your #Kubernetes cluster, feel free to give this a whirl - Vaultwarden is a fork of Bitwarden that was rewritten from scratch in #Rust.

The reason why I chose to write a chart for Vaultwarden instead of Bitwarden is because from my exploration, it seems the former is simply more suited for self-hosting in your
#homelab. It's also supposedly more performant and efficient in terms of resource usage.

🔗 https://github.com/irfanhakim-as/charts/tree/master/mika/vaultwarden

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So that experiment was short lived.

The #FireFox password manager has no support for secure notes.

If you use FireFox I would recommend #BitWarden for passwords, although I have not used them together.

Apart from that Firefox worked fine during the time I used it.

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@cocoafrog

Well Apple having a single ecosystem and being product-first doesnt help here. They have a lot of stuff like Airdrop or iMessage that can be replaced but not easily

GrapheneOS is not google-based, but that comes at the "cost" of no integrated cloud storage, backup, transfer etc.

Also small things like a well integrated and working password manager, #KeepassDX and #Bitwarden are okay replacements, probably more secure but less easy

Airdrop can be replaced with #Localsend

The bitwarden android app is great, the browser extension is fine for the most part, but the desktop client is such an awful experience. It honestly makes me want to move to something like keepass where I can get a native client no matter the platform. But keeping keepass synced across devices I've heard is not a great experience as it wasn't designed with synchronization in mind. I wish there were more 3rd-party bitwarden clients for every platform because with mobile I'm pretty happy but on my laptop it's super frustrating.
#SelfHosting #Bitwarden #Vaultwarden #Android #GNOME #Linux #KeePass #PasswordManagers