Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns

[Liarus]

How do you reliably sync+backup your passwords between multiple devices though?

Syncthing

[Liarus]

I have heard it's android app is getting deleted from google app store, because it's developer refuses to update it according to guidelines for newer android versions. So it's essentially unsupported.

You have "Syncthing Fork" which is not only way better, but also development on it is planned to continue in the future, sycnthing wrappers are honestly just things you see everywhere, i use SyncTrayzor on Windows, SyncThingy on linux, and SyncthingFork on Android, KeepassXC handles dynamic file updates just fine, so i can vouch for it!

[mbod]

Docker is not complex at all it's just one yml file and by using simple guide written by you anyone can maintain it.

Even if you turned it on once and never update it it will still continue working.

I had nextcloud docker container running on my system for a while. it is pretty cool but I am back to VMs now.

Anyways, I will not leave my family with a linux server + vaultwarden docker with no support. That contradicts the whole idea of emergency access. In case of problems they would not even have access to the server or the docker image without the passwords - which are in bitwarden. That is a catch-22. This is not what I am looking for.

[Vistaus]

It's better to have service made for one task then thing like nextcloud that tries to be everything at once. It's written in PHP and is very slow. I know about new php8 advances but still, nextcloud is a big pile. I know i used it for photo/video sync, calendar/contacts sync, notes, office, file storage too and i replaced them with services that were created around that task. Which turned out to be much better solution.

I do use other services for office and calendar. But still: Nextcloud is not that slow for me. Sure, the web interface could use a bit of a speed boost, but the clients are very speedy.

[Vistaus]

I have heard it's android app is getting deleted from google app store, because it's developer refuses to update it according to guidelines for newer android versions. So it's essentially unsupported.

And they can't release it on F-Droid?

Besides, Android is only one thing. Syncthing is also available on e.g. Ubuntu Touch.

[Espionage724]

Yay, good for those 4 people who use it

The fact that it's getting removed from google play store for not following Googles rules to be fully compatible to newer versions of android is alarming that developer is lazy ass and do not give a damn on updating his app, thus security vulnerabilities may also affect it and he won't give a damn. That is why i do not use apps outside play store.

This is where i agree with apple that they do not allow apps outside app store. There were talks about apple allowing sideloading, i do not know if they implemented it or not. But apps should be available from safe places only.

Meh I have a different perspective. Google's Play Store rules are outlandish and force you to support newer Android versions and intentionally restrict older versions. In my case this directly prevented me from sideloading a game to an old Android platform (game's APIs and stuff works fine on Android 7, but because of Play Store rules, the min version is 8).

I side-load a few Android apps to my phone running LineageOS 21, without Google apps. The apps are relatively minor (Duolingo, Spotify, etc), but I don't like the browser versions on my phone, and I'm certainly not entertaining Play Store to get em And in Spotify's case they want to be silly and not allow the Lite app to show up on Play Store apparently if you're in a first-world country or something along with not offering an apk, so I get double-benefits from a sideloaded modded apk with Premium

Google's walled-garden can continue to exist, while I use my phone without such limitations. I can't quite do that from iOS without running into 3rd-party app store limitations. And for me, side-loading the apps I do doesn't introduce any security concerns.