Toribor @ Toribor @corndog.social

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I've started using Firefox to install sites 'as a web app'. I use that for cloud services and things I self host. Basically works like a native app but way more control over data.

I use this extension to get SSH support for VSCodium It works great!

Maps like this are the only way my feeble American brain can process complicated European things.

After working with computer software most of my life I've come to understand that if success relies on people 'paying attention to something, making an informed decision and then performing an action' that it is nearly impossible to get the desired outcome more than half the time.

We're so fucked.

So... how long before the federal government buys up a couple million of these things...?

This is what I'm using and I haven't found any reason to switch yet.

I use a Gnome implementation of this and it works great too.

Yeah it's worth considering risks. If I lose access to my credentials it would be a ridiculous amount of work to recover, probably losing access to some things forever.

Bitwarden caches passwords locally so if your self hosted instance goes down or is inaccessible to can still access those cached credentials and OTP codes.

I tested this thoroughly and was very nervous that a server outage at home would lock me out of the credentials I need in order to fix it. It's been good enough for me to get by until I can fix whatever is broken.

I've had a good experience self hosting Bitwarden (using Vaultwarden). I've printed off some instructions for my wife or family to gain access in case something happens to me. I haven't done this yet but I also want to occasionally export my vault to an encrypted USB to keep alongside things like passports and birth certificates.

Those might be good options for you too considering the risks you've outlined.

I self host Bitwarden (aka Vaultwarden) and recommend that to anyone who is comfortable hosting a container. For everyone else I still think Bitwarden cloud is the best most trustworthy free cloud credential manager.

KeePass rules though, I used it for years. I no longer recommend it mostly due to the difficulty of securely syncing the database which generally forces people to rely on a cloud provider anyway.

This is probably the most 'old man yells at cloud' thing about me but I hate voice assistants and they have yet to work consistently enough to be worth my time.

It is completely insane to me that something simple like "Add ____ to the grocery list" has worked and stopped working multiple times for years now. How hard is that to get right? Cannot believe such a simple action is so inconsistent.

you have to dig around in legacy settings

Windows can still be made into a tolerable usable OS, but it basically requires a minimum of 20 years of knowledge about where the legacy control panels, settings, and secret reg keys are hidden. Every new version obfuscates them even more and yet they are no closer to feature parity with the 'modern' control panels that barely work at all.

Any chance you'd be willing to share playbooks or point me toward any resources you used?

I use Ansible to manage config across all my workstations/servers but I haven't gotten around to automating log shipping yet or aggregating system metrics.

The five node limit is a dealbreaker for me too. I'm also annoyed the free version doesn't have any real built in options to secure data by default. I followed a TechnoTim tutorial to get the NetData/Prometheus/Grafana stuff setup but it was too limited and required too much manual effort.

I'm in a pretty bad fucking mood but I kind of figured that was more my problem.

Maybe next time they'll lose by even less! That's about the best progress I can hope for in this country in my lifetime.

No one here is mentioning that Crysis released right when single core processors were maxing out their clock speed while dual and quad core processors were basically brand new. It wasn't obvious to software developers that we wouldn't have 12GHz processors in a couple years. Instead, the entire industry would shift direction to add more cores to boost performance rather than sizing up each core.

So a big bottleneck for Crysis was that it would max out single core performance on every PC for years because single core clock speed didn't improve very much after that point.

A couple of multi-millionaires would pay you to stop and then you'd implode.

Still a net win for everyone else though, I support this.