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"I remember the good times, when I had a single password for all (the two?) services I used. Then came a phase of managing passwords on sticky notes stuck below the keyboard (much more secure than stuck to the monitor!), until I migrated to one of the first note-taking apps and had passwords written in clear like on the sticky notes but copy/pasteable. Those were the days!"

"Then came the first “real” password manager which for me was 1Password. It worked, I synced with a local store (i.e. sans Internet) until the company decided to convert my “paid for life” (which never exists) into a subscription model. I spent days thinking and rethinking and settled for Enpass which I’ve used since on macOS and iOS. It’s okay, and does what I want from it, but its enshitification is in progress. There are others, lots of others, and I looked closely at KeePassXC, but can’t seem to make the jump."

"One of the password managers I kept an eye upon for a while was pass, a.k.a. passwordstore. It must have been a dozen years ago that I fell for the cool little tool which lives in my terminal, but as there wasn’t an iOS pendant, I kept pushing it aside. Interestingly, for years now, I’ve mentioned it in my Ansible trainings when I very briefly explain the passwordstore lookup plugin when going through a short list of lookups."

"Moving forward, I stumbled across a program which piqued my interest yesterday: Pass for iOS, and decided to take a closer look to see whether the combination of that plus pass might tickle me again."

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