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POLL TIME BABY

How heavy of a sleeper are you?

Very Light: bags, paper, or curtains flapping wakes me up.

Kinda Light: doors squeaking, normal foot steps, or rain wakes me up.

Average: knocks, phone calls, clock or car alarms wake me up.

Kinda Heavy: I sleep through 2+ alarms, and multiple phone calls.

Very Heavy: I sleep through fire alarms, sirens, and a nuclear attack.

Tell me in the tags if you'd like!

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Tech how-to article written like a recipe. Is that anything? Fuck it.

Old-Fashioned Setting Up a Password Manager

For this project you will need:

  • One computer
  • One full-featured browser
  • One pre-made email account, not shared and logged-in
  • 2-5 possible passwords
  • 5-10 accounts to get started with storing passwords.

Before you begin pre-load your computer, logging in to your email account. You can save later prep time by having your primary social media accounts, banking information, email account, and online bills ready to hand.

  1. Go to bitwarden.com and select "create account"; be sure to select "free account" - you can jazz it up later but we're learning the basics now.
  2. Create the account using your primary email address as the login name and one long (but not complicated!) password that you are certain you can remember but is not widely shared online. This is a great way to use information about your favorite movies or songs, not a great place for your kid's or pet's names.
  3. Set up your password hint with a good reminder; be sure to note any punctuation you added, for instance a comma to separate lines of a song or an exclamation point between words of a movie title.
  4. Verify your email account with the password manager, then set up a new password for your email. You may need a phone or access to your extant 2FA tools for this step. Create a login in the password manager, add your email address, and generate a new password, then save the entry. Go to your email account, select "security" and "change password" - enter your old password to confirm then paste your new password manager generated password into the provided text boxes, and save. Log out of your email account, then log back in with your new password. You will need to do this on all of your devices, so make sure you're using a password manager that is accessible across platforms - Bitwarden is recommended for a reason, this is a place where you don't want to skimp when making substitutions!
  5. Repeat the process of resetting passwords to taste; you don't need to do everything all at once, but it's best to start with a serving of 5-8 to get used to the process.

Time: 30min to 2hr DOE
Expense: Literally Free
Value: Priceless i never have to remember a fucking password again and now neither do you.

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Is Firefox a viable substitute for Bitwarden? I have been using it for years, and I like that it's easily accessible on all my devices, but I'm not sure whether it works as well.

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I strongly recommend against using browsers as password managers (it means you have to be logged into your browser at all times, and sometimes you don't have the ability to install a specific browser (chromebooks, library computers) and also people are terrible about using their browsers logged in on shared devices, which you shouldn't do without signing out after every use) however there is a bitwarden plugin for Firefox and if you aren't able to log in via a plugin on an ios browser you can access your Bitwarden vault through the website. I've got the bitwarden android app, it has a good ios app, and it works great as a plugin on Firefox.