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What are some notable blunders in history that resulted in huge loss? (lemmy.ml)

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Loss in terms of money or efforts. Could be recent or ancient.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

This is why I never felt comfortable enough to use one of those. A have a formula for generating passwords for each account so I only have to remember that instead of individual passwords. I know password manager might be more convenient but I'm too used to the way I've been doing things all these years...

Have you had any luck recovering your Bitwarden?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's more likely: forgetting the master password to your password manager or one of the many passwords you have memorized? I totally get not wanting to trust a hosted service with all of your passwords in case it disappears (having an offline backup would remedy that), but not using one out of fear of forgetting a master password is overblown.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can always do the mostly sane thing of having a master password to your main vault as the only saved password of different password vault, i.e bitwardens master password saved in an encyrpted keepass file. You have 2 passwords to remember, but also a fail safe if you forget one.