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Huh? Password manager as a paid subscription service?
I just use the goop between my ears to remember my passwords.
My goop likes strong and varied passwords.
Write a story you will never forget about whatever service. Like 'when h is Y and won I; I would rather die than use google as a service.' = "1wouldratYerd1etYanusegoogleasaserv1ce."
I used to do that with Buying for bike shops where I had a bunch of accounts all over the place. I kept mental track of the starting key so that I knew my password rotation and history. I kept a hints book, but did not need it.
I could see that working. The great thing about password managers is that your codes are always intensely random and secure. The bad thing is that once you're into them, it would take several hours of work to make them all into something a human can memorise.
Me too.
Dihydrogen Monoxide + Sodium Ferrocyanide + Ferric Ammonium Sulfate = ❔
I'm not even a fucking chemist LOL, nor is the answer to that question in any way related to my actual password, but I'll give you an upvote if you can figure out what color that makes...
Sounds fun, but you keep it. I have a kid to put to bed.
Take care, and have an upvote anyways.
It makes a deep Navy/Prussian Blue.
You must not be using very strong passwords, then... Or somehow only have a few accounts.
But given that every site out there requires an account to use these days that sounds dubious
I memorized π to 50 decimal places and also the alphabet backwards at age 10. Neither are my passwords BTW, but yeah my passwords can be and indeed are cumbersome. But the harder it is to spell, the easier it is for me to remember, oddly enough.
Once upon a time my password was my Windows 98 product key, 25 otherwise random characters. Yes that password has long since been retired.
I used to have quite a facility for memorisation, but life got busy and I gave it up.
I guess my mind just can't help it, I find the more complex the character sequence, the easier it is for me to remember. It only took me 5 minutes to learn the alphabet backwards at age 10.
I've since found that I can memorize Microsoft 25 character product keys in like 30 seconds. I dunno, guess my memory banks just work differently than most.. 🤷
I usually use randomly generated passwords of the maximal supported length (or the maximum 100). I would definitely forget even one of these. Password Manager has also great auto-fill feature for fast and simple login in browser or PC or phone apps, and automatically copies 2FA codes.
I don't trust password managers from the start, it feels like sticking your password on a post-it note on your screen and hoping nobody else sees it.
The only difference is waiting to see if hackers manage to hack your password manager, then they have all the keys...