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1. Password Management with Bitwarden

   In a past life, I managed both Lastpass and 1Password. Neither of them were something I wanted to use personally, so I was looking for something better.

   In the mean time, I was using KeePassXC stored in Google Drive. And Holly and I also had a shared Keepass file stored in a shared directory so we could share passwords between us.

   But then I learned about Bitwarden.

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2. Wireguard: Home VPN Server

   I used to use OpenVPN as a means to connect to my internal network from outside of my house. It worked really well, but managing its configs was a little bit of a hassle and, frankly, OpenVPN is old news (/s). I wanted to play with a new toy.

   So I looked into Wireguard.

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3. Centralized Bookmarks with Linkding

   As I mentioned in my Qutebrowser article, my browser doesn't have the ability to share bookmarks with my other browsers. I run Chrome on my phone and Chrome on my Chromebook. And I have a second Linux laptop that also runs Qutebrowser.

   I needed a solution to share bookmarks between them. And I settled on Linkding.

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4. Qutebrowser

   These days, it's more important than ever to find a good web browser: one that's easy to use, has the functionality you want, and, most importantly, is reasonably secure. It's also a good idea to consider the privacy features the browser has too.

   Too many of the popular browsers have privacy issues (Chrome sharing info with Google, Edge sharing info with Microsoft, Brave sharing info with...).

   Additionally, with my keyboard-driven window manager on my system (Qtile), I wanted a keyboard driven browser too.

   Enter Qutebrowser.

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