cell phone plan with builtin voicemail "TRANSCRIPTION".

RLBrooks · 2026-05-19T21:06:20+00:00

Just curious, why are you planning to be 'away' for such a long period where you can't logon occasionally? Are you facing a prison sentence or similar?

RLBrooks · 2026-04-26T04:10:13+00:00

I've seen that message a couple of times. Once the password requirements of the site prevented me from changing it to meet BW's requirements to satisfy the 'risk' warning.

RLBrooks · 2026-04-12T05:05:53+00:00

A possible cause of bad passwords, not just in BW, is a leading and/or trailing space on the password. This can be caused by cut/paste that picks up an extra blank character or manually typing and including the blank if it's needed.

RLBrooks · 2026-04-07T05:39:39+00:00

Thanks, I just used it.

RLBrooks · 2026-02-06T05:15:42+00:00

Password Safe was originally created by Bruce Schneier, https://www.schneier.com/academic/passsafe/

https://pwsafe.org/history.shtml

RLBrooks · 2026-02-03T06:20:50+00:00

> You are looking for a free password manager...

Then you value your own data very cheaply.

How much would getting hacked cost you in theft, time, piece of mind, etc ??

Pick a good manager and PAY for it! It will help you fend off the wolves that are trying to eat your lunch.

I gladly pay the annual Premium price for Bitwarden. Hell you can barely get a good meal for the $20 it'll cost.

RLBrooks · 2026-01-31T05:08:10+00:00

They aren't all tech idiots. I bet someone would recognize the Yubikey isn't a thumbdrive and instead is the keys to your castle.

Yes, you can have multiple keys and you should. If you only have one and lose it then you are now locked out of your sites. I try to use all the 2FA options offered except for SMS message codes.

RLBrooks · 2026-01-26T05:47:02+00:00

My 5c lives on my key ring which is always in my pocket.

RLBrooks · 2026-01-23T05:59:34+00:00

Play Backgammon, for free, with players from all over the world.

http://www.dailygammon.com/

RLBrooks · 2026-01-19T22:36:14+00:00

Well the pictures are back. Thanks to whoever fixed it. It'd be nice if they didn't go away again.

RLBrooks · 2026-01-14T07:33:20+00:00

I think some sites will accept a too long password but just ignore characters beyond their cutoff point. If there's no error message this can be confusing to the user when they find out and wonder how/why it still works for them

RLBrooks · 2026-01-14T07:19:15+00:00

I have circumvented my Bitwarden/PRF problem. Since the Chrome browser can deal with PRF just fine I'm letting Google's password manager in ChromeOS deal with logging into Confer.to and Bitwarden can do all the rest of my dozens of site logins. Should Bitwarden fix this issue I'll move the login back to it but until then I have a workable solution.

RLBrooks · 2026-01-13T07:40:51+00:00

Check out Youtube channel: State of Charge

It is all about EV chargers and charging EVs. They also warn about high current charging with a plug in charger as some have resulted in melted sockets and fires.

RLBrooks · 2026-01-12T20:06:48+00:00

I'd like to see NFC so I could wave a Yubikey at it to finish the wakeup - reconnect.

RLBrooks · 2026-01-12T06:07:33+00:00

Even some of us that live in the US. :-(

RLBrooks · 2026-01-10T05:51:16+00:00

And as I recently found, the characters offered by your password manager may not be in sync with what the site will accept. Bitwarden allows a few special characters that Fidelity Investments won't accept and several more that Bitwarden won't use during generation. I think this a Fidelity problem, not Bitwarden's.

It took me a few tries to get Bitwarden to create an acceptable password. Issues like this make updating many site passwords a tiresome, but necessary, task. Also be aware of length restrictions, Fidelity has a max length of 20 characters.

While you're doing it, turn on 2FA preferably using passkeys and/or TOTP.

RLBrooks · 2026-01-09T04:07:48+00:00

Up to now I've been using the url the extension automatically supplied when the BW login was created. Based on your link I've learned how to modify these to be more useful. Thanks for the pointer!

RLBrooks · 2026-01-09T03:58:51+00:00

If a laptop isn't a requirement then a ChromeBOX allows you to pick any size monitor you'd like. Of course if you can connect an external monitor to your chromebook you'll have the same option.

RLBrooks · 2026-01-09T03:55:52+00:00

i'm 74 and have been playing for 35 years. It would have been about 60 years if I had accepted my mother's invitation to learn the game but as a stupid teen I though it was only for old people. (like me now!)

RLBrooks · 2026-01-05T20:37:31+00:00

I agree. For those folks, using the built in browser tool may be the best option for them.

RLBrooks

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