I’ve always hated the idea of using a subscription/cloud hosting for password
management. I feel like I should have a LOT more control over that stuff and I
don’t really want to hand all my keys over to a company. All my secrets have
been going in a highly encrypted archive with a long passphrase, but obviously
that isn’t convenient on all devices. It’s been fine, I can open it on any
computer but it’s not super quick. It does have the advantage of being able to
put in multiple files, notes, private keys but it’s not ideal. Anyway, finally
found something that isn’t subscription, and has a similar philosophy - a highly
encrypted archive file, and it’s open source and has heaps of clients including
web browser plugins so it’s usable anywhere, and you can sync the vault with any
file sync you like. Thought you guys might appreciate the find, password
managers have always been a bit of a catch 22 for me. Note for android i found
keepassxc the best app, and i’m using KeePassHelper browser plugin, and the
KeePassXc desktop app as well as the free official one. Apps all seem to be
cross platform.
RISC-V is a non-proprietary instruction set that is an alternative to ARM. I had thought that we were still waiting for a stable Linux distribution on RISC-V devices, but it turns out many RISC-V machines can run Debian already.
Does anyone have a RISC-V device that they use regularly? How has it been working?
Definitely interested - is the mainline situation any better than with ARM?
I’ve been bitten before with a device that “supports” a major distribution, but only if you install our custom pre-built image (good luck auditing what we’ve tweaked) and only with our special pre-built kernel that isn’t even an LTS version, and has a bunch of patches applied to support whatever weird peripherals we decided to throw on the board, and will get exactly 0 updates after the initial release.
Raspberry Pi gets around this by being big enough to get buy in from vendors (Ubuntu distributes a special kernel + firmware bundle), but support for all the other smaller knock offs seem shaky at best
is the mainline situation any better than with ARM?
Unfortunately, sounds like “no” currently. The ones that let you install Debian usually provide some kind of custom Debian image for that specific SBC. Like you, I’m not really a fan of that. But apparently there are some desktop motherboards with RISC-V CPUs coming out. Hopefully that will increase the chance of things getting supported in mainline distros.
Definitely interested - is the mainline situation any better than with ARM?
I’ve been bitten before with a device that “supports” a major distribution, but only if you install our custom pre-built image (good luck auditing what we’ve tweaked) and only with our special pre-built kernel that isn’t even an LTS version, and has a bunch of patches applied to support whatever weird peripherals we decided to throw on the board, and will get exactly 0 updates after the initial release.
Raspberry Pi gets around this by being big enough to get buy in from vendors (Ubuntu distributes a special kernel + firmware bundle), but support for all the other smaller knock offs seem shaky at best
Unfortunately, sounds like “no” currently. The ones that let you install Debian usually provide some kind of custom Debian image for that specific SBC. Like you, I’m not really a fan of that. But apparently there are some desktop motherboards with RISC-V CPUs coming out. Hopefully that will increase the chance of things getting supported in mainline distros.