> I don't need special software Technically correct (the best kind of correct!), but in my recent experience with 4 different password managers[1], there are s

> I don't need special software Technically correct (the best kind of correct!), but in my recent experience with 4 different password managers[1], there are some pretty big catches: It’s incredibly time consuming and error-prone to init and use good passwords correctly and to maintain them without any password manager, aka “special software” with deep hooks in your OSs and browsers that allow it to fill and save passwords efficiently. And it’s nearly as bad to do so if you don’t have a cross-platform one unless you’re all in on a single narrow ecosystem like Apple. Suddenly I would be on a different platform and I’m like, using telegram to shoot myself messages with passwords from my phone. And don’t forget the absurd password ‘rules’ (sorry, “/“ is not on our list of 5 ‘special characters’) that are differently-misguided on every site. This is a huge blow to “passwords are convenient.” And even if you do have one that’s cross-platform my experience recently has confirmed that if you’re not using the OS vendor’s own solution, you’re guaranteed a buggy, unreliable, slow, second-class experience on Apple devices because they don’t allow anyone else to work as efficiently, probably for some combination of “security” and “battery life” reasons. Similarly, even first party password managers are laggy or fail to trigger correctly in about 1/3 of “Apps” (they work fine on websites) This means with passwords I’m left completely without a solution already since I’m sure as hell: 1. Not using Safari. 2. Not limiting myself to Apple only. So I have to pick a 3rd party solution with its buggy trade offs. Anyway, if passkeys are implemented universally, at least I could ditch password managers and just have 1 passkey each in the Apple and a cross-platform storage location, and never have to deal with updating them. [1]: I tried, in order: iCloud (omg what a horrendous b—-h to “export” from!), Dashlane, 1Password, Microsoft.