You summed up the reason I will never use a password manager, despite what a fucking pain it is to remember/write down/manage passwords myself, because, what if, rather than losing access to 2 or 3 accounts, you lose access to EVERY account?
There is a lot of cognitive outsourcing anymore. Google maps is a great example; Jason doesn't go anywhere without navigation turned on, even when it's extraneous, and if she tells him to avoid a huge pileup or something, he ignores her, which would be the single benefit to actually using live updates. But like, he doesn't use his eyes or brain, just blindly relying on a device to tell him where/when to turn. I remember one occasion where my MIL got lost while visiting us in California; she didn't know where she was, I didn't either, but I told her she had to turn to the west and she'd be funneled into the direction of where we were. I then had to explain to her that at 6:15PM, "west" meant "the same direction as the setting sun." But she hadn't bothered with a map, or directions, or even to pay attention when she left the rental car place, but then realized that she didn't have her GPS.
I find Google to be increasingly useless I use the Reddit trick. I'm also wary of it; I had one gmail account that I lost access to (probably because I hadn't accessed it in a year+) and luckily it wasn't important, but I can't get it back, and there's another account that I apparently set to auto-forward from to my main email box, and I lost access to *that* too, and therefore can't turn off auto-forward. It's pretty inert but it's annoying. I know other people who have been permanently locked out of their active accounts because there is no customer service or any way to re-establish access to accounts. (Same deal with FB; if you lose access to your FB account the only way to get it back is to bribe an employee and hope for the best... but this is also how people lose access to their accounts in the first place, I'd bet.)
I am wary. There's benefits to convenience, but convenience also comes with shackles. (And this whole thing has gotten a fuckton more complicated with teenagers who also have passwords and such.)
There is a lot of cognitive outsourcing anymore. Google maps is a great example; Jason doesn't go anywhere without navigation turned on, even when it's extraneous, and if she tells him to avoid a huge pileup or something, he ignores her, which would be the single benefit to actually using live updates. But like, he doesn't use his eyes or brain, just blindly relying on a device to tell him where/when to turn. I remember one occasion where my MIL got lost while visiting us in California; she didn't know where she was, I didn't either, but I told her she had to turn to the west and she'd be funneled into the direction of where we were. I then had to explain to her that at 6:15PM, "west" meant "the same direction as the setting sun." But she hadn't bothered with a map, or directions, or even to pay attention when she left the rental car place, but then realized that she didn't have her GPS.
I find Google to be increasingly useless I use the Reddit trick. I'm also wary of it; I had one gmail account that I lost access to (probably because I hadn't accessed it in a year+) and luckily it wasn't important, but I can't get it back, and there's another account that I apparently set to auto-forward from to my main email box, and I lost access to *that* too, and therefore can't turn off auto-forward. It's pretty inert but it's annoying. I know other people who have been permanently locked out of their active accounts because there is no customer service or any way to re-establish access to accounts. (Same deal with FB; if you lose access to your FB account the only way to get it back is to bribe an employee and hope for the best... but this is also how people lose access to their accounts in the first place, I'd bet.)
I am wary. There's benefits to convenience, but convenience also comes with shackles. (And this whole thing has gotten a fuckton more complicated with teenagers who also have passwords and such.)
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