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I'm a tech savvy person and still don't use a pwd manager. I have a base password with extra stuff added at the end that I can figure out from the domain name.

I'm a tech savvy person and still don't use a pwd manager. I have a base password with extra stuff added at the end that I can figure out from the domain name. I want to use a password manager but it seems to me to not be easy as you claim. It's nowhere near as easy as you hand wavingly claim it is. Last time I tried the one everyone said to use had been bought and everyone was saying don't use it, but the other alternative didn't work on mobiles (or something, I forget) properly. I even had one installed for a bit but it never seemed to work so I gave up. It's still a broken ux with a non-trivial cost of using it. I know I should use it, I know when I get hacked I will regret it. I do use 2 factor for the important stuff, because it works and is actually easy, unlike the bolted on clunkiness of password managers.

aianus 10y ago
Which one did you try? I've been using 1Password for years and it works great across all of my devices (automatically synced via Dropbox). No affiliation besides being a customer.
jonknee 10y ago
Yea, well it is that hand wavingly easy. Mobile has gotten a lot better over the years as well, especially on iOS because you can use TouchID to unlock the password manager. On desktop it could not be easier, I hit command-\ and it autofills the username and password for the current site I am using and if I have more than one login for that site there's a list of logins to use. You can activate it the other way around too by choosing a site from the password manager and it will open the site in your browser, auto-fill the login and then submit it so that you're ready to go. I would still use this setup even if my passwords were all simple to remember like yours are.
- mattmanser 10y ago
  But his Twitter account was setup in 2009. In 2009 password vaults were poor and definitely weren't easy. That's what I was talking about. We're talking about accounts that are years old, not something he set up last week.
  - jonknee 10y ago
    You said you "still don't use a pwd manager". Learn from Zuck's error and start using one today!

aianus 10y ago

Which one did you try? I've been using 1Password for years and it works great across all of my devices (automatically synced via Dropbox). No affiliation besides being a customer.

jonknee 10y ago

Yea, well it is that hand wavingly easy. Mobile has gotten a lot better over the years as well, especially on iOS because you can use TouchID to unlock the password manager. On desktop it could not be easier, I hit command-\ and it autofills the username and password for the current site I am using and if I have more than one login for that site there's a list of logins to use. You can activate it the other way around too by choosing a site from the password manager and it will open the site in your browser, auto-fill the login and then submit it so that you're ready to go. I would still use this setup even if my passwords were all simple to remember like yours are.

mattmanser 10y ago
But his Twitter account was setup in 2009. In 2009 password vaults were poor and definitely weren't easy. That's what I was talking about. We're talking about accounts that are years old, not something he set up last week.
- jonknee 10y ago
  You said you "still don't use a pwd manager". Learn from Zuck's error and start using one today!