 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. Today I'm going to be talking about Bitwarden. So yesterday, I think it was yesterday, there was a big kerfuffle when LastPass decided that they were going to change their free tier to basically be completely useless. If one of the things you want from a password manager is to be able to get to your passwords anywhere, I mean that's literally the purpose of a password manager. I mean, and they changed their plan so that only people who pay for them can pay for it can get to their passwords anywhere. Now I'm all for companies making money. If it was against the rules for companies to make money, there would be no companies. The problem is the kind of the shady way they're going about doing this because they actually had limits on their free tier before. Like a few years ago, you could only sync between your accounts if you paid. It was like 12 bucks a year, and nobody really complained about it because that's the way it was from when the company started. And then they changed that to the point to where the free tier members could have, you know, unlimited syncing capability and gave their premium plan other features to try to get people to pay for it. Now they're going back and it's actually more expensive than it used to be. It's a whole big mess. So if you're one of those people who feel burned about let by last pass, I'm going to just say this right up front. Bitwarden is the best choice that you can make. Period. It's just is. I mean, there are other options. There's key pass, there's and pass. There's one password. If you're using a Mac or an iPhone, those things are, I mean, they're decent options, but they aren't great. And Bitwarden is great. So if you want to move past just good and go to great, choose Bitwarden. So let's talk a little bit about it. So first, let's go to the website. So this right here, these are their payment options. So as you can see, if you choose decide, if you choose to have a premium account with Bitwarden, which you don't have to, literally $10 a year, a year. Yeah, really good, cheaper than this last pass. And honestly, if you don't feel like paying money, you don't have to because all the good stuff comes with their free account. Unlimited signage to unlimited devices, all the security and support you'd possibly want. It's just really good. Really what you get if you pay that $10 a month is UBKX capabilities and you get a little bit of encrypted storage. The pricing and the features really aren't even the best part because it has all the features that you'd want. The app is great. It has Linux support, obviously, native Linux support. So you don't have to deal with crappy last pass password application that they decided to write an electron or just use a browser, you know, extension, it actually has an application has applications for iOS and when Android is, you know, obviously, so good. But the best part is it's completely open source. I mean, and I'm not talking just about, you know, just the applications, literally everything that you could possibly want to know about Bitwarden is on GitHub. You could fork this if you wanted to. I mean, you'd have to follow the whatever license it's under. I can actually probably see what license it's licensed under, but let's just see. Let's see what the server's license under is licensed under the AGPL. There you go. Seriously, it's just an open source license. So you could fork it if you want to. You could auto all the code, make sure it's secure if you know what you're doing. If you know C sharp, I don't know anybody who knows C sharp. I know, I mean, obviously, a lot of people know C sharp. I just don't know any of them, but it's open source. So it's just if if you're a Linux person and you use a password manager, use Bitwarden. It's so good. They're not sponsoring this channel or this video or anything. It's just really, really good. And I switched to it maybe six months ago. And it's just good. So I have it so that I can just do a key binding and it will actually bring up Bitwarden in a scratch pad. And I can just type in my password, which I'm not going to do on camera, you know, for obvious reasons. This is what the application looks like. And then I can just hit the key binding and it goes away again. So this is what it looks like on Android. It's good looking at, you know, and it's very functional. It has all the stuff that you'd think, you know, a mobile app would have like authentication with your fingerprint and or face ID or whatever. So it's good. So really, that's as far as I really wanted to take this video. But for me, Bitwarden is just the best choice I've possibly made in terms of password managers in the last 10 years. I've been through them all. I was when I was using Mac, I used one password and I swore by it was good. It was also astonishingly expensive at that point. That was before they moved to a subscription service. You had to pay like $80 or something like that in order to get into the app, which was ridiculous. But it was a Mac app and it was pretty like a Mac app. So, of course, I had to have it. And then I moved to LastPass and I was fine with that for a few years. And then the I moved to Linux and LastPass for a while, there was just not good on like the only way you could do things was through the web extension and managing your passwords in the web extension was bad. This was before they had a Linux app, which they only just recently made, I believe. So then I switched to EndPass and EndPass is not open source. They're also they charge $10 in order to use cross platform. So it's not a big deal. But it was it was it is what it was. And they don't have any syncing services at all. It's all done through like Google Drive or Dropbox or something. And that's fine because it gives you control. But I didn't really care for it. And eventually I saw Bitwarden add on like destination Linux or something and switched over. Haven't looked back. I mean, it's just so good. I know I'm like preaching the I'm preaching to y'all about to y'all about, you know, how good Bitwarden is, but I'm just telling you, try it, you will not be disappointed. Leave LastPass behind in their shenanigans because they're going to continue to change these plans probably over and over again until they figure out some way of getting people to pay for their service. And like I said, I don't have a problem with them trying to get people to pay for their service. But honestly, it really should just be, you know, you want people to pay for your service, come up with good services that deserve to be paid for. Don't put basic functionality behind a paywall unless it's always been that way. Anyways, so if you like this video, give it a thumbs up. If you didn't give it a thumbs down, make sure you subscribe. You can also support us the channel by going to patreon.com slash Linux cast. Speaking of patrons, I'm really getting good at remembering this. Thank you to Devansi for being our first patron. And thank you for watching. I'll see you next time.