Matt Demon

You don’t speak for all of us. I appreciated the summary.

Also, you’re being a real dick about it. “Mentally incapable”? Maybe you need to break from the internet.

The lottery idea is also genius. That’s how all scarce goods should be sold, like concert tickets.

You can always replace the storage yourself. A 2TB NVMe doesnt even cost $300 (most are around $250), and if you swapped it yourself, you’d have a 512 GB one to stick into an enclosure and use as a portable hard drive.

And you don’t even have to do that immediately. 512 GB is plenty to start. Especially since not everyone plays enormous AAA games with hundreds of mods. You can upgrade at any time.

oauth only passes back a “login successful” reply and an identifier to associate an account with

Right, it’s a unique login token the website or app uses to ID you, and it keeps you logged in as long as you don’t delete the associated cookie. In addition, it can be revoked by you at any time, essentially logging you out (including anyone who may have stolen your cookie and is using it to impersonate you).

It’s better than using the same password everywhere, but not as good as using a password manager with unique passwords for every app and website.

Haha, oh yeah

Hey, at least you can play in your room where there was no TV, or in the living room if your parents were watching a show.

It doesn’t matter who they’re “targeting”. If they sell it at a loss because it’s more powerful than it costs, people who don’t care at all about Steam will purchase it as a computer to run emulators or normal software. They are not going to do this.

Children need free access to lead to end this disparity!

You’re forgetting that it’s just a computer, and can it can be reformatted, and you can install any OS on it to do anything with it. It’s not locked to the Steam Store in any way. It’s not like a console where they can sell it at a loss and make money on games later because console companies make it impossible for you to use it as a normal computer. Steam does not.

To be fair, it’s a very, very long trench.

It’s like those diamond dealers who would sell you diamonds in a sealed pouch and “guaranteed” their value as long as you never open to the pouch. It was a scam tantamount to NFTs.

There are two ways to do it with KeePass (or KeePassXC or KeePassDX):

1. using the auto-type feature with a virtual keyboard
2. Using it as the desktop’s “secrets provider”.

When I asked if KeePassXC could work on Wayland, I meant, “does the auto-type feature work yet?” I actually have not looked into using KeePassXC as a secrets provider.

The built-in AutoType feature uses a virtual keyboard to type passwords by switching to the target window and then typing them in as if it were you using a real keyboard. This works in Windows, Android, and X11 (insecurely), but not in Wayland.

On a desktop PC, you can configure the auto-type sequence in an individual entry or on the folder it’s in. Then you press Ctrl-V with an entry selected, and KeePassXC will switch to the previous window and start typing like a keyboard. You control when it presses Tab to switch fields, when it types the username or password, and if it hits Enter to submit the login. Stuff like that.

On Windows, the above is secure unless some random app comes to the front as soon as you press the AutoType hotkey. Other programs can’t read the keystrokes. On X11 this is insecure. Every program running on the computer can hear every keystroke from every keyboard (real or virtual). This is just one of the reasons why Wayland exists, to eliminate security holes like this, and why KeePassXC under Wayland can’t do auto-typing. (Yet)

On Android, you use the KeePass virtual keyboard to AutoType entries. I personally use KeePassDX, but I’m sure there are other ones. Like all Android keyboards, it needs to be enabled in settings before you can use it. You either open KeePass, choose an entry, and then switch to the KeePass keyboard, or switch to the keyboard first, click one of the buttons, and KeePassDX will launch, and have you choose a key to load.

Either way, the KeePass virtual keyboard presents you with buttons for username, password, or any other text fields, and you simply focus the field you want to be typed into, and press the appropriate button. It’s secure. Other apps can’t intercept the keystrokes. I would screen shot what the keyboard looks like, but I can’t do that because of the security settings. KeePassDX blocks screenshots by default, and that carries over to its virtual keyboard.

The other option on Linux is you can configure KeePassXC to be the “secrets provider”. Then, when an application does the formal request for a stored secret on the system, KeePassXC provides it instead of KWallet or whatever your DE uses. I have never tried this out, and I don’t know how secure it is.

Why did you use scare quotes?

The problem is the “Ultra” as in MKUltra.

I can think of many cool things I’d like to do with that

Care to share any of your ideas?

Does KeepassXC work under Wayland yet without having to use the clipboard to paste passwords?

News flash: zinc oxide and titanium oxide are chemicals.

Screenshots don’t auto-update?

McDonald’s Coke is! So I really don’t understand what this post is saying. The title is obvious, but the actual post? Not so much.