your 'ripped to shreds' is others 'alternatives suggested'

that's one of things i like about this site - people discuss how they do things - many people have different ways of doing things - from out of the hodge-podge some mix of ideas (or i dunno, best practice) emerges - which may be adopted making all our lives better.

that there LifeHacker site does do it all a little better than here, but it's not as jovial

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Posted By: Ralf Scrampton on June 8th 2015 at 14:44:07

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How the hell do you remember all your passwords these days? (General Chat) - Adster, Jun 8, 12:14:15
- Common password (General Chat) - 1968canary, Jun 8, 17:07:48
- Common password (General Chat) - 1968canary, Jun 8, 17:07:38
- Use a system. (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jun 8, 14:12:41
- my password for itvplayer is fuckoffitv (n/m) (General Chat) - Chris Peacock, Jun 8, 14:11:39
  - Thanks! (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jun 8, 14:12:54
- Get a password safe app that syncs between your devices (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Jun 8, 12:56:58
  - 1password gets my vote (n/m) (General Chat) - Ben, Jun 8, 15:26:54
- I have a spreadsheet on a pen drive (General Chat) - pants, Jun 8, 12:29:19
  - It does seem the best option. Been looking at password managers but why bother with them? (General Chat) - Adster, Jun 8, 12:45:12
    - If you treat as somewhere you want to go, you'll use it all the time (General Chat) - pants, Jun 8, 12:50:08
      - Google calendar will do all that shit for you, with the backing up of contacts (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jun 8, 13:04:19
        
        nah, no way I'm going near that lark (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Jun 8, 13:11:34
      - ^ this is up there with 'Arizona Bay And The Backup Photography Procedures' (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, Jun 8, 12:53:53
      - The password thing. (General Chat) - pants, Jun 8, 12:52:04
        
        "Effortlessly" (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jun 8, 13:05:00
        
        Well you're only typing 4 words each time you add an entry (General Chat) - pants, Jun 8, 13:11:00
        
        so you won't have backed-up your pen drive into Google Drive then? (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jun 8, 13:25:57
        
        Nah, I back it up on another pen drive every 2 months (General Chat) - pants, Jun 8, 13:44:20
        
        PGP encrypt your USB drive. Srsly. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 8, 13:57:15
        
        completely effortless... (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jun 8, 13:55:24
        
        Fair enough. It was a shit idea (General Chat) - pants, Jun 8, 14:09:10
        
        apology accepted... (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jun 8, 14:13:57
        
        not really (General Chat) - pants, Jun 8, 14:25:42
        
        your 'ripped to shreds' is others 'alternatives suggested' (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jun 8, 14:44:07
        
        Fair enough, thanks (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Jun 8, 14:54:56
        
        I just use 'Password' for all of them (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Jun 8, 13:01:28
- I just have the same easily-guessable password for everything. (n/m) (General Chat) - bird table, Jun 8, 12:21:43
  - Yep^ password123 ^ (n/m) (General Chat) - BSE Canary, Jun 8, 12:35:47
    - Me too (General Chat) - Highlander, Jun 8, 14:01:18
    - "123456" and "password" are supposed to be the most popular. (General Chat) - bird table, Jun 8, 12:43:44
- Try having a brain that works properly and can remember things when prompted (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, Jun 8, 12:15:34
  - Not really, no (n/m) (General Chat) - Adster, Jun 8, 12:17:21

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