Until they ban that book for an obscure reference about “poor people saving money” and take it away.

Best off hiding them in “Bible - Abridged version heavily filtered by old white men to only include passages convenient for youth indoctrination and reinforcing raciest and homophobic ideology.” .

Seems like they just combined window and application capture into one thing. It makes sense.

If your on Android;

Amdroid is the best alarm app I’m aware of. (Called “Alarm clock for heavy sleepers” on play store)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amdroidalarmclock.amdroid

(Best few bucks Ive spent on an app, ad version just has ads in ui, nothing crazy) It has a feature where 5 min after you dismiss the alarm, it’ll send a notification asking if your awake. If you don’t respond after a while, the alarm goes again. (Times adjustable)

Sorry I’ve typed more than intended too, I’ll put most under a spoiler so its not a wall of text…

Thats a nice work around lol.

I haven’t tried keepassium. My main device is an android, so the IOS search was brief and focused on ones that didn’t say “in-app purchases”.

Keepassdx is sadly not on ios.

The only good one I’ve found is called strongbox. Free version works fine, but the pro version prices are insanity for something that is free everywhere else. I could get behind a lifetime buy of $10, but for $99 hell no. (Monthly sub is $3 or $25/year).

Looking at the app store now, most of the keepass apps have some form of in app purchace.

Only truly free one is call keepass touch, but frankly when I tired it, it sucked.

The way I see it, Password managers protect best against website password leaks.

By making it very easy to have different passwords for everything, one password leak won’t compromise your entire online portfolio.

The self managed nature of keypass and vault warden makes them less susceptible to a major fup outside your control, i.e A business can’t mismanage your passwords resulting in a major leak or deletion. For better or worse, you’re in charge of your own database.

They won’t protect you from various malware, except maybe a key logger that doesnt know how to copy the file? If someone actually wanted into your database without brute force, they could figure it out. If you find malware that’s been on your system for a while (longer than you download something and AV stops it before running), change all your passwords. Luckily you’ll have a handy list of everything.

Edit; another advantage is if they take over the computer/steal files there’s not much they can do with an encrypted password file, its better than a txt doc with all your stuff.

How many set their password to your example? They just look up the password when they forget.

Its cool you got them using bitwarden, I should probably get my company to switch, I know there’s a PDF company account passwords floating around…but I’m pretty low on the totem pole.

And remember these are the same people handling all your personal info on the computer :)

At least mine knows how to password protect pdfs…and then sends me the password in a separate email. Its not a fail, but I wouldn’t call it a success either.

Adding on some more notes/suggestions

• Open Camera is also a great camera alternative. You still can use all the fancy features like “night” mode, the UI is just a bit less straightforward.

• Heliboard is also an excellent keyboard choice, if you don’t like FUTO’s open but not FOSS model

• Another part of the battery issue might be the “new toy effect”, its been a few weeks so may not be the case anymore, but when we get a new phone we spend hours and hours setting it up skewing our perception of the battery life. (I typically get 3 full days on Graphine on P9, with light to moderate use)

• If you don’t like Vanadium, you can try Firefox(or a fork), it has extension support, which includes UBlock Origin. There are some good privacy reasons Graphine ships with a chromium browser that you can read on the website.

• For syncing data, Syncthing is an excellent choice. There is an IOS app fork, called Mobius Sync. Due to Apple restriction is doesn’t run in the background, but just opening the app and letting it sync is a lot easier than manually doing stuff (I set a Shortcut script to open the app everyday when I’m typically using my ipad). Your also limited by Apple’s “user” file system. On Android you can sync anything except the root folder, great for music, photos, docs, any exported app settings files, and keypass files if you go that route for passwords.

• F-Droid is a great source for open-source apps. I have hesitations on the Auroa store, read it can’t verifiy apps like play store does so something could be inserted mid-tranaction. Likely hood is probably 0, but something to consider.

• You can replace the home screen launcher, the one Graphine ships with is pretty basic. Lawnchair is a very popular one. I use one called Neo Launcher (from F-droid, not the play store one with same name). There are a ton of different takes on what a launcher can be, from a super minimalist text list of your apps and some with some insane customization options.

• Widgets are definitely app-based for what you get. Apple has a more cohesive design across them that app devs tend to (have to?) follow, while android is just a free for all.

Yeah, you gotta put that stuff in the annoying neighbor’s yard

Yes, there are many options.

I saved a thread a while back when I was looking for a new launcher too.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/23446121

The point of this is to take what you already bought from Amazon with you when switching.

Your missing out big time, Torrent+ comes with a few extra files to play with your computer.

Can we go back to having the military musicians perform the anthem? Stop giving the once in a life time honor to random celebrities.

That’s unfortunate.

Another thing you can do is to keep available funds on whatever card you use online low. If there’s only 1 to 2k on the card, yes it’ll suck, but it won’t be as impactfull as your life savings.

You a might also consider credit card with a small limit (1k or less) and set auto pay to “pay full balance” every month. Avoid interest like the plague, (those cards have insane interest rates over 20%), but if you’re always paying it off in full, there’s no interest to pay. If I can’t pay the credit card off in full (and I mean the full limit) when I “swipe” it, I pretend it does not exist. None of the “I get played next week, so I can pay it off then” - nope, don’t go there.

Supposedly credit cards have better fraud protection than a debit, but maybe that’s just another one of our many “Freedom” problems.

The main thing is you’re separating the random websites from the majority of your funds to limit how much can be taken. If there’s a problem, I’m dealing with Privacy.com and a couple hundred bucks and can still pay the bills. I’m not trying to convince ebayclone#71 and my bank I didn’t place an order for 10000 waffle makers before the lights shut off.

And of course, I’m just some rando on the internet, not an actual expert. Not even in same country as you, so take that for what it is.

Good to know.

Password manager, and use different randomly generated passwords.

The real danger is having the same password everywhere.

Also pay attention to where you save your payment info.

Everything I do online is through Privacy.com, with limits for each vendor. My amazon gets hacked? Most I’m out is $100, steam gets hacked, there goes $60. A subscription tries to double charge, lol no. Free trial wants to auto-bill me after 7 days, its not happening. Funneling everything through them isn’t 100%, but at least they’re not paypal, I get notified when ever even a 1 cent charge happens and I’m not leaving my bank card on a dozen random sites I’ll eventually loose track of.

the 3rd road; Be awkward by making random noises.

Linux … you guys make money spying?

Try out Privacy.com for online shopping. Also use gift cards where possible.

For physical, cash is king, followed by gift cards. Visa prepaid cards are a solid choice, but not really practical.

Failing that, I’m not sure you can find a private card, not that I’ve looked.