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In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? (feddit.dk)

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RSS and blogs, news vs. social media
XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat
IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc.
Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)

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[–] captainsiscold@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bitwarden 100% has biometric unlock (at least on Android, can't speak for other platforms); as mentioned by @pattern, you can set it up to autofill login info in apps and websites. It does sometimes take a bit of time to show up, though.

Anecdotal experience, I know, but I managed to cure my wife of her habit of storing passwords in plaintext on her computer by moving her to Bitwarden, and I've had very little in the way of tech support to deal with in that area ever since, so at least for me it passes the "good for non-tech savvy folks" test.

[–] abhibeckert@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Huh, turns out it does now! Definitely didn't when I last tried the desktop app.