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I'll start:

  • RSS and blogs, news vs. social media
  • XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat
  • IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc.
  • Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)
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[–] captainsiscold@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You bring up a good point with utilities like Bitwarden and Proton Mail; things that look nice and have good functionality attract the average user much more easily.

[–] abhibeckert@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Last I checked, Bitwarden doesn't have any way to hit a hotkey and insert login credentials in the current app? It also can't be unlocked with biometrics?

Those aren't "nice" features for people in the Apple ecosystem, they're baseline features that every password manager needs to have. I don't just type passwords into a browser, so a browser extension alone isn't enough. And I'm not typing my umpteen character long password fifty times a day, there needs to be biometrics.

I will always choose open source software over closed source software - but not if it means choosing mediocre software over good software.

[–] pattern@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least with android 13, you can choose the bitwarden app as your default autofill option, and it will fill login info in apps/websites/etc. That being said, I've noticed sometimes it won't pop up immediately, but it's by far the minority of situations where it does that.

[–] Clegko@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

This has been a feature for years - Android 10 at least, if not earlier.

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