I’ve become the tech guy, and family are extremely entitled to my services. My mom especially. BTW I can’t cut her out, because I still live with her and she EXPECTS me to fix anything computer related. She won’t take no for an answer.

I’ve tried to keep track of her passwords with a password manager, I’ve spent literally 8 hours in a single day filling out captchas and replacing passwords, and I’ve spent even more time trying to teach my mom how to use the manager.

She CAN’T learn it, and always makes a new password, which she doesnt keep track of and expects me to fix it. What the hell do it do? She uses firefox, with auto refill on, but it doesn’t autofill on her iphone.

  • @bandwidthcrisis
    5•1 day ago

    This scheme does not need a list, and if necessary could be simplified enough, some common part with first three letters of the site:

    • For Instagram: my-memorable-password-Ins
    • For Facebook: my-memorable-password-Fac

    The memorable part could be the initials of a favorite song lyric, or something: nggyunglydIns, nggyunglydFac etc.

    But the suggestion of using the Chrome password manager sounds like it will be seamless. I don’t know if it would work on IOS, but on Android it fills passwords in for many apps, not just web pages.