Fair point.

The self-hosting part was mostly about total control over my own systems and less about the paid features. It’s very much not necessary.

As far as pro features go, It was the TOTP authenticator integration that was kind of important to me. ~20% of my accounts have TOTP 2fa, and bitwardens clients will automatically copy the latest 2fa code into the clipboard when filling a password.

Bitwarden will even tell you if a saved account could have 2fa (the service offers it), but it’s not setup/saved in bitwarden atm.

I currently have 110 unique user+password combos. I wouldn’t want to change all those even once, if I were breached and had used similar credentials everywhere.

Bitwarden keeps them well managed, synced between devices, and allows me to check the whole database for matches/breaches via haveibeenpwned integration. Plus because I prefer to keep things in-house as much as possible, I even self-host the server with vaultwarden walled off behind my own vpn, instead of using the public servers. (this also means it’s free, instead of a paid service)

There’s a very large gated community right beside my apartment, that’s in between me and the lake I live near. If I could walk thru the gated comm, I could reach the lake in ~15min. Instead I have to go around which is more than twice as far with lots of up-hill.

It’s never an easy decision to make and often you simply don’t have the resources to make it immediately; but if the work you do is immoral/unethical, your goal should be to remove yourself as soon as reasonably possible.

That said; sometimes even the need to provide for one’s self or family doesn’t outweigh the horrible things we’re asked to do. Where exactly that line is we’re unlikely to agree on; but in those situations sacrifices must be made.

You always have a choice, and it’s our choices that define us.

You don’t. Stand up for your ethics and morals and leave.

One of the best paying jobs I ever had, directly asked me to perform work that would have have damaged a customers home. When I layed out exactly how and why this was wrong and why I wouldn’t do it, they insisted I do as I was told or be fired.

I walked off the site and never looked back.

I ran into that old boss a while later and he told me he later realized I was right, but insisted I still should have done as I was told because he was above me and had given me direct instructions…

Sometimes you just can’t work with people and have to move on.

No, I don’t. Haven’t been on Reddit for 2.5 years though, so why would I.

Stop torturing yourself OP. Move on.

It’s strange, but not a terrible use for the excess heat a pc gives off I guess.

Seems like the kind of thing you’d find as a random 5.25" bay accessory though (where a dvd drive would go).

Well, since you asked so nicely…

OMG Joey doesn’t have a gun!

20 students draw on him

https://openwrt.org/

I’ve never personally used that one, but it gets recommended a lot.

I’ve been using DD-WRT for 15+ years, but that’s for no particular reason other than It’s what I found first and haven’t had any reason to switch.

And nobody mentioned race but you…

Man-panties

Who could have possibly seen this coming…

Connecdicut or Connecticud?

Started a new job as a tool tech in a rental center; maintaining, repairing, and simply showing people how to operate, a ton of different tools, some of which I’ve never even seen before.

First thing I did is setup a file share on my server that I’ve populated with 70+ manuals and growing by the day…

Read through them all myself to understand the nuances of each machine and be able to explain the details to customers; plus I can print them a fresh copy on demand just for good measure.

I’m rather surprised by the disproportionate voting as well. I was just playing devils advocate tbh.

For the record, I’ve not voted either way on anything in this thread. I will say, you seem to be taking this far more seriously than perhaps you should. This isn’t the war room; it’s a throwaway convo with strangers about hypotheticals…

Are you suggesting someone starts WW3 by shooting Putin down? Because that’s what would happen.

Would it though? If you cut the head off the snake, will (can?) the body keep following its orders?

It’d definitely be chaos and there’s a good chance there would be some war. But I’m not so sure how much of that would be retaliation against the US vs an in-fighting power grab within Russia.

I got really stuck into the Artemis Foul books as a teen. I always thought they’d make a great TV series.

‘Ignorance is bliss’…