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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • Keepassdx is sadly not on ios.

    The only good one I’ve found is called strongbox. Free version works fine, but the pro version prices are insanity for something that is free everywhere else. I could get behind a lifetime buy of $10, but for $99 hell no. (Monthly sub is $3 or $25/year).

    Looking at the app store now, most of the keepass apps have some form of in app purchace.

    Only truly free one is call keepass touch, but frankly when I tired it, it sucked.


  • The way I see it, Password managers protect best against website password leaks.

    By making it very easy to have different passwords for everything, one password leak won’t compromise your entire online portfolio.

    The self managed nature of keypass and vault warden makes them less susceptible to a major fup outside your control, i.e A business can’t mismanage your passwords resulting in a major leak or deletion. For better or worse, you’re in charge of your own database.

    They won’t protect you from various malware, except maybe a key logger that doesnt know how to copy the file? If someone actually wanted into your database without brute force, they could figure it out. If you find malware that’s been on your system for a while (longer than you download something and AV stops it before running), change all your passwords. Luckily you’ll have a handy list of everything.

    Edit; another advantage is if they take over the computer/steal files there’s not much they can do with an encrypted password file, its better than a txt doc with all your stuff.




  • Adding on some more notes/suggestions

    • Open Camera is also a great camera alternative. You still can use all the fancy features like “night” mode, the UI is just a bit less straightforward.

    • Heliboard is also an excellent keyboard choice, if you don’t like FUTO’s open but not FOSS model

    • Another part of the battery issue might be the “new toy effect”, its been a few weeks so may not be the case anymore, but when we get a new phone we spend hours and hours setting it up skewing our perception of the battery life. (I typically get 3 full days on Graphine on P9, with light to moderate use)

    • If you don’t like Vanadium, you can try Firefox(or a fork), it has extension support, which includes UBlock Origin. There are some good privacy reasons Graphine ships with a chromium browser that you can read on the website.

    • For syncing data, Syncthing is an excellent choice. There is an IOS app fork, called Mobius Sync. Due to Apple restriction is doesn’t run in the background, but just opening the app and letting it sync is a lot easier than manually doing stuff (I set a Shortcut script to open the app everyday when I’m typically using my ipad). Your also limited by Apple’s “user” file system. On Android you can sync anything except the root folder, great for music, photos, docs, any exported app settings files, and keypass files if you go that route for passwords.

    • F-Droid is a great source for open-source apps. I have hesitations on the Auroa store, read it can’t verifiy apps like play store does so something could be inserted mid-tranaction. Likely hood is probably 0, but something to consider.

    • You can replace the home screen launcher, the one Graphine ships with is pretty basic. Lawnchair is a very popular one. I use one called Neo Launcher (from F-droid, not the play store one with same name). There are a ton of different takes on what a launcher can be, from a super minimalist text list of your apps and some with some insane customization options.

    • Widgets are definitely app-based for what you get. Apple has a more cohesive design across them that app devs tend to (have to?) follow, while android is just a free for all.