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[–] khalid_salad@awful.systems 9 points 6 days ago (18 children)

Y'all, with Proton enshittifying (scribe and wallet nonsense), I think I am never going to sign up for another all-in-one service like this. Now I gotta determine what to do about:

  • Proton Mail
  • Proton VPN
  • Proton Drive
  • Proton Calendar

and I'd be forced to reassess my password manager if hadn't already been using BitWarden when Proton Pass came out.

Self-hosting is a non-starter (too lazy to remember a new password for my luggage). Any thoughts? Are other Proton users here jumping ship? Should I just resign myself to using Proton until they eventually force some stupid ass "Chatbot will look at the contents of your Drive and tell you which authorities to surrender yourself to"?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago (7 children)

also, how are you liking bitwarden?

I really need to kill off my current password manager and bitwarden's looking like the least worst of current options (esp. when paired with something like vaultwarden instead of running a fucking nodejs sync server on the internet), but also some of it seems quite stunted[0]

it's gotten so bad that I've started pondering writing my own, because good god does basically every option out there depress me

[0] - no global hotkeys? the fuck

[–] mii@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They have a CLI app though which you can hook up to dmenu or rofi or whatever to get global shortcuts.

https://github.com/firecat53/bitwarden-menu

Their desktop app is a bit shit anyway. I just use the CLI and the Firefox extension and it’s working solid.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

alas: my main workstation is (non-slate) macos, and it's unchangeable for the foreseeable future

good to know those (already) exist as options, though. if I can find some spoons I'll try look around and see if there's maybe something similar I can hack up/agglutinate from what's around

Their desktop app is a bit shit anyway

I haven't even tried it yet because I'm real "ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh" about even the idea of a js-/ts-based gui client for my password manager. largely because I've met too many js/ts devs and I outright don't trust their competence and processes. so your post is definite motivation for me to eyeball some of the other clients too

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