No idea if it’s all the passwords I have to remember, or part of getting older 🤔

  • idunnololz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Use a password manager yoooo. I spent half a decade avoiding it and said fk it one weekend and set it up. It takes some time to set it up the first time but it’s the way to go.

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I do. The damn bank website gave me “you can’t reuse passwords try again” on something the password manager generated for me on the first attempt at entering a password, and then the account froze and the bank manager had to unfreeze the account (the teller helping me couldn’t manage to unfreeze it for reasons neither of us understood). I think i have a hell of a knack for breaking computers if that’s a job.

    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I use a password manager and have still had that happen.

      Pasted from manager, incorrect. Ok, maybe I saved the wrong one… change password, use one saved because I’m too lazy to generate a new one - can’t be same as current. 😑 Fuck you, shit-ass Best Buy website.

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      1 year ago

      It’s the single biggest quality of life improvement I’ve made in the last 3 years. I wish I had done it sooner (and if anyone reading hasn’t got one yet, Bitwarden is FOSS and can be selfhosted.)

      I actually found it quite fun to go through all my logins and change any shitty passwords, adding them to the password manager as I went. It’s a great quest for when you want to procrastinate from doing something important by doing something that feels productive.