Like the other guy said, there’s no immediate need to delete the account. And someone else wont be able to pick the address up after you, if you do.

I’ll probably leave google eventually, as well, but I don’t intend to delete my account. The process of using google services less and less has been ongoing for years for me, and I will just use them less and less, until I no longer do at all.

Where email is concerned, I’ll just have whatever my new email is pull in my mail from gmail for a while, and as I receive email concerning various accounts to my gmail, that’s when I’ll go in and change them over to use my new address so the old inbox gets less and less mail.

Then, eventually, when I haven’t touched it for years, I might take the final step of actually deleting it. But probably not.

How the hell is someone elses data supposed to help identify your files?

If the data is encrypted, and the keys to decrypt it are gone, then so is the data.

Without the keys, the data may as well be all zeroes.

Everyone likes her.

True!

Hnnnnggh. Cute af !fangmoe@ani.social.

That’s not really how the comments on alternativeto work. They are relative.

If you got to spotifys page, it will list similar services, each with their own comments, and the comments under youtube music, for example, will be about how it compares to spotify.

So, to leave useful comments, you only have to know how a given piece of software compares to what you used before. You don’t comment on how a given thing compares to everything else, only to one thing at a time.

Then, as other people browse the alternatives, they can use those individual comparisons to navigate their way what they need. Stuff like “this can’t replace that for this use-case, because reason, but it does this other stuff” is extremely useful when looking for something that does what you’re looking for.

So leave a new one.

Totally. I often go directly to it to find applications.

It’s how I found kdenlive, it’s how I found audiobookshelf, etc.

I’ve gone this route. Not for the faint of heart. If you’re not self-hosting savvy, but you know someone that hosts a server, absolutely sign up with them. Or use a local public server like pikaviestin.fi, which provides accounts for finnish citizens.

I don’t understand.

You only use each passwords once? You never log in to things on a new device without the one on which you created the account on hand? You only ever need authentication on two devices?

I own half a dozen devices on which I might want to log into places, and on several occasions it has been extremely useful to be able to access my password database from a completely new device from anywhere in the world, with nothing but the memorized master credentials.

One of advantages is that I can use passwords so long that I wouldn’t want to be typing them manually.

I don’t think you can argue that the advantages don’t exist, even if they aren’t useful to you personally.

I agree with all of that, I was just pointing out that “uploading all your passwords to someone else’s server” can be done in a way that isn’t silly. You’re preaching to the choir.

Though even then, the best way is for that server to be yours, not someone else’s. And it does come with advantages in terms of convenience.

and a customer service department that deals with users who have lost that

I’d not heard of the “mud puddle test” but I immediately thought that any provider that does that, is doing it wrong.

Unless there’s an exploit of which I’m unaware, my self-hosted solutions pass the mud puddle test.

Do you mean OTP?

I self-host vaultwarden, and I have that. I think it’s a paid feature if not self-hosting?

Theoretically, it’s possible to store a encrypted database on someone else’s system in a way where they never have the ability to see its contents, as you encryption and decryption only ever happens in the client on your devices.

Whether this is actually done in a way that enforces that on various password managers is unknowable with proprietary code.

Personally I self-host vaultwarden. All the benefits of syncing my passwords across devices, but the server enabling that, runs on my hardware.

Pretty much. Helping my grandmother deal with misplacing or forgetting her login details has been hell a couple times.

It’s extremely convenient when just go about your life with it already on hand, but for obvious reasons the security measures are extreme and it’s a pain to set up or recover your id.

In Finland, extremely.

The banks here provide digital ID verification online. You use it to log into tax services, the national health-care database, to apply for schools, other education-related stuff, apply for welfare, register trade names… etc. The list goes on and on.

Stuff you’d otherwise have to personally visit or mail documents to offices of various government institutions for, can be done extremely smoothly online.

With my bank, the app is used for one of the verification steps. When verifying your identity online, you need to authorize the login from the app by entering a PIN from memory when prompted. There are alternatives but this is by far the most convenient.

The same banking app also notifies me the second any money comes into or leaves any of my accounts. No transactions can occur without my knowing. It lets me know when I receive my pay, or when an electronic invoice comes in (power, phone bills, etc. come right into the app), gets automatically paid, or when explicit authorization is needed due to one being irregular.

Most of the services my bank provides can be accessed via browser, but the stuff above is the kind you can’t achieve in a browser.

Honestly OP Pohjolas app is so feature-rich I’ve been able to pretty much set it up to run my finances for me. All I do is keep an eye on my accounts to make sure things are going right.

I don’t think so? If they did, too little too late.

Yes, but it’s become a very different place since they banned adult content.

I live in the nordics, while you can get chain lubes meant for extreme cold, negative twenties to thirties should be fine to ride using any lube.

Internal bearing lubrication is not a concern, same for shifters and brakes. Hydraulic breaks are not a concern, provided there is no moisture in the system.

Gloves are a must, of course, but I’ve several sets for a range temperatures, you can do just fine all the way up to pretty thick finger gloves. Some people here like to use three finger gloves to let some of their fingers buddy up.

Studded tires also make a huge difference. I can ride without them, but studs basically eliminate the most common way to fall without seeing it coming, your tires just sliding out from under you on smooth ice.

Though it doesn’t help on loose snow thick enough the tire won’t sink through to contact the ground. For that you need width and tons of tread.