Useful Tech Hacks

[ddnn]

This is based on the video below, but I’d like to hear from you guys.

What are some tech hacks that you employ to make your real life or digital life easier, more convenient, simpler, more private, or even to amp things up for productivity, speed, etc.

15 Tech Life Hacks YOU WISH YOU KNEW SOONER !!!

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@ddnn

…simpler, more private…

• Linux/BSD network file sharing: Linux/BSD network file-sharing doesn’t require Samba / NFS. The typically pre-installed SSH service will provide highly secure and encrypted SFTP access, at near comparable speeds, right out of the box. In a purely Linux/BSD environment, SMB and NFS are arguably redundant.

• Online passwords: If you can remember website access passwords, your passwords aren’t strong enough. Use something like keepassxc to generate and securely store hilariously complex passwords, per website account. Make them ridiculously massive… because you can.

• Online accounts: As with passwords, use a unique email address for every service you sign up to. There are various ways to achieve this, like simplelogin.io for example, or email aliases for services that offer that, or even a domain catch-all. If a service experiences a data breach, you can easily identify where it happened because the scam/spam emails will be trying to exploit the unique email address you used for that service. You can drop that now breached email address, and update the service to use a new unique email address.

[drunkenvicar]

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Online passwords: If you can remember website access passwords, your passwords aren’t strong enough. Use something like keepassxc to generate and securely store hilariously complex passwords, per website account. Make them ridiculously massive… because you can.

a note about keepassxc: do not use the browser extension that autofills. that thing has internet access. I trust extensions to a point and have used it but never felt good about it. I caveman cut and paste passwords from keepassxc and paste them in the browser boxes.

@Bink

Online accounts: As with passwords, use a unique email address for every service you sign up to. There are various ways to achieve this, like simplelogin.io for example, or email aliases for services that offer that, or even a domain catch-all. If a service experiences a data breach, you can easily identify where it happened because the scam/spam emails will be trying to exploit the unique email address you used for that service. You can drop that now breached email address, and update the service to use a new unique email address.

I agree with this 100%.especially for each acct and especially unique. For passwords I use the pwgen CLI program over the keepassxc - I think I get better control of caps, symbols, amount, etc. you last two sentences blow me away–did not know that and love learning.

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@drunkenvicar

a note about keepassxc: do not use the browser extension that autofills. that thing has internet access. I trust extensions to a point and have used it but never felt good about it. I caveman cut and paste passwords from keepassxc and paste them in the browser boxes.

I agree, and I caveman copy/paste too

[mbod]

@drunkenvicar

a note about keepassxc: do not use the browser extension that autofills. that thing has internet access. I trust extensions to a point and have used it but never felt good about it. I caveman cut and paste passwords from keepassxc and paste them in the browser boxes.

The keepassxc browser extension for firefox is from the same developer team as keepasxc itself. If you dont trust that extension why do you trust keepassxc in the first place?

The keepasxc package from the extra repo also has network access.

screenshot taken from: https://keepassxc.org/docs/#faq-security-network

The compile option -DWITH_XC_NETWORKING=OFF would be required to turn off network access, but the arch package is not doing that.