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$99 for a great config file is buying time. A good config can take years to hone. Easily adds up to 50 hours over 10 years.

How much are your 50 hours worth? What about cutting that 10 year lead time down to 1h?

LastPass on the other hand is a tool you use because the world sucks. And their UX is pretty bad. And switching away is an annoying chore. You feel trapped and extorted into paying.

I configured my own editor and people often ask for details. I use LastPass begrudgingly because at this point I’m too lazy/busy to switch.

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> LastPass on the other hand is a tool you use because the world sucks

I feel like this gets missed a lot when questions about price/value come up.

Just because something's useful doesn't mean you want to buy it, and things you don't want to buy, but need, are likely to be thought of more harshly when it comes to price.

This emotion seems obvious and I wonder why we don’t have clear, sustained global consensus for creating/maintaining non-profit alternatives for strict needs.

Is this part of mainstream economics yet? I see “the economist” argue around the edges of this, but then they ran a front page hit on Bernie sanders.

I guess because the more it looks and feels like a public service, the more it feels like a tax. Or the more it feels like a non-profit, the more it feels like charity.

Each of those concepts has had a long time to become embedded, but the kind of globalised, "net-good" non-profit that still gives you as an individual benefits, has barely even reached the corners of HN yet (would assume there's people here who haven't yet discovered LetsEncrypt, for example).

I use BitWarden because the world sucks.

I use LastPass because my employer compels me to.

I am writing my own password manager because the world sucks. I use passpack because I am not done.

Switching away was actually very easy. You can get a CSV with all of your information in a few clicks.

Agreed, mostly. Expect for switching being an annoying chore.

Took my less than 10 mins to switch everything and download 1Password on all my devices. Super simple. Everything got imported over.

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