Others in this thread have talked about safety deposit boxes and buried crates. I'd add that you can just give some trusted party a normal encrypted USB flash drive, and eliminate the risk of getting absolutely rinsed out in the event of a house burglary by splitting the password amongst an arbitrary number of your other contacts using the Shamir's Secret Sharing algorithm.

Every single one will have to be dealt with eventually by someone, so if I can reduce the number of banks I deal with it’s worth it, even at some small cost of not being “perfectly optimal”.

> all my passwords and credentials are in my password manager, and the password to that was only in my head.

It’s not just death I worry about. Anything that causes me to lose my memory of the password, from disease to head injury, leaves those trying to help me locked out of everything.

A password manager is an incredibly helpful tool to leave behind, it’s a compiled list of all vendors you have registered an online account with.

But, IIUC, without legal authority to access those accounts on my behalf it might not be sufficient. I’m planning to talk to an attorney that specializes in taking care of the legal side too. IIUC there are accounts you need legal authority to access even if you have the password. For example, if I give my friend the password to my 401k with the purpose of managing my estate, them using that password can put them in a legally gray area.

Also planning to work out a rough order of importance and context for a subset of accounts can help. Like writing down which financial vendor is managing the life insurance policy and whether that’s tied to my employer or not (if I lose my job leading up to my death, I.e. during a long battle with an injury, will I lose my life insurance before it pays out?)

A “red binder” project is on my families short list - the “I’m dead or incapacitated, here’s what you do” playbook. The above is how I’m thinking about things. I would love to hear more thoughts/perspectives

Both devices are encrypted, and the samsung I believe is set to wipe after a number of failed attempts. While there probably isn't anything on them, it's always been a pain to not know.

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I've been thinking about building a platform to help prepare for and guide families who are faced with this kind of situation.

I've put a backup of my keepass passwords on a USB as well as a printout of the passwords and the master password in a firebox. I also keep a list of assets and financial accounts in there along with birth certificates and passports. My spouse and I both have a key.

I would have used a safe deposit box but those are disappearing.

I’ll definitely go through the steps, but I’m wondering what the best way to store it is. Feels weird keeping a document lying around giving access to all your passwords, bank cards, finances etc.

I’ll have a think about storage.

Some time ago my dad had some severe heart problems which lead to him being hospitalised for multiple months and a lengthy recovery where he was in full "vegetable" mode in the beginning. As he is somewhat of a "patriarch" personality the whole family finances, insurances etc. where all on his personal system.

It really was "fun" to sort everything out for us and even more "fun" for himself making any sense of his whole accounting sheme after suffering some memory loss during the whole ordeal.

So... having some "letter of last resort" deposed somewhere may even benefit yourself...

When we talk about these things it is always assumed that we want our family to have access to our digital lives after we die. I have lots of pictures from shared memories that I want my family to have - and they already do.

Other things I want to die with me - things that were not shared with my family before I died shouldn't be shared with them after I die.

Why is it that we generally assume that we should get access to other peoples private stuff because they are dead?

Again, not trying to make this an attack on you.

And of course I am excepting getting access to bank accounts and insurance.

I strongly second the imperative to preserve as much as possible in the event that any of us suffer a mischief.

Will definitely look into the 1password emergency kit, thanks for mentioning it. 2fa is the other big challenge after that.

I had a similar experience about 18 months ago when my friend A. suddenly died. He was fit and healthy, but for some reason had a seizure on a bike ride, crashed, and that was the end of his story.

Unfortunately for his widow, she and he were not on a family account with Apple, and so it took a LOT of rigmarole to even access, say, the photos on his phone.

Apple now has a "Legacy Contact" feature you can enable; this is a VERY VERY GOOD IDEA FOR MOST PEOPLE. I assume Google has something similar if you're on Android.

The tl;dr is really "you just gotta have a plan." When you go, next week or decades from now, it'll be hard for those you leave behind. Do whatever you can to make it easier for them.

Vim is spellcasting in the fly. Not puzzling out complex rotes to perform dutifully, but building a potent ether around us & then applying a little twist just so to alter the universe around us.

You should ask, and answer, the question in reverse. What does neovim offer me, as a regular vim user? I don't see anything particularly interesting for my usage, so I don't have any reason to change. Also, some features are missing (like gvim-gtk, that I enjoy using to edit LaTeX occasionally).

Furthermore, as of today, plain vim has an aura of venerability due to Bram's legacy that neovim cannot match. So I'll stick with vim.

It would make sense to port back some of the most popular neovim features into vim. It is a good thing to have innovative forks that experiment aggressively with new features.

Such base programs basically need to go through the Debian packaging gauntlet if they want to succeed.

What I mean by that is that generally they need to persuade distros to be anointed the "official" tool, i.e. Debian or Fedora would have to select Neovim as the new default text instead of Vim.

Then you need a few years for the changes to trickle down everywhere: Debian -> Ubuntu-> Mint -> ..., Fedora -> RHEL, ... After that distro releases need to be cut and people need to upgrade.

I think a full cycle, where a tool becomes ubiquitous if it gets adopted in the base installs, is probably 10 years. See systemd.

If Vim got no new features, I wouldn’t care. If Vim became unmaintained but still available from distributions, I’d still use it. If Vim became unavailable (e.g. due to lack of maintenance) I’d be more likely to switch to nvi than Neovim.

I could probably switch to nvi now, but I have no reason to.

For my purposes, Vim is complete. I don’t require new features, as long as it is maintained and runs on modern OSes.

The terminal and async stuff has been "backported" to vim, as it were. But the plugin ecosystem is diverging. The other items are still open, and maybe those will move forward.

At this point Vim9 is the clearly superior language (don't hate me) since it's very domain-specific, while Lua has only very primitive hacky support. But the plugin ecosystems have diverged -- I don't see NeoVim coming back home without native Lua support, and I definitely don't want native Lua support in vim.

(I can live without cscope, since I no longer do significant C and mlcscope has been dead for aeons, though it's shocking that LSPs are still less capable in some respects.)

I know about rebinding to alt, but that doesn't work in all my terminals.

So for me, it's that one lousy thing that keeps me from switching. And if someone knows the magic setting to make it mimic vim, please let me know.

- Features I find useful have been removed.

- I dislike Lua, and significantly prefer Vim9Script.

- Gvim is useful at times.

vi is part of POSIX. That alone would be a reason to mantain Vim as a modern superset of vi.

  $ rpm -qi neovim
  package neovim is not installed
  $ dnf search neovim
  No matches.

But alas, the motivation is not big enough for me to invest the effort.

Some features I'd like from Neovim are built-in LSP (but Vim has that thank to plugins), and tree-sitter based syntax highlighting.

That's not enough for me to move to Neovim.

I do use NeoVim with a lightly-customized LazyVim setup on my personal desktop, but I don't use it much differently than I use Vim at the moment. I'm not a power-user, just someone who's comfortable enough with the keybinds that I leave :w everywhere when using a non-vi editor.

Since Vim 8 launched with a built-in package manager I'm able to store my vimrc and any extensions in git and easily grab it on any new machine I'm on. The level of effort required for me to convert to Lua and adopt newer nvim version of plugins I use seems too high relative to the benefits.

Edit: Looks like I'm wrong about neovim not being a fork of vim.

My wife has no idea about tech and I want it to be easy for her to access our digitised family media and documents, once I no longer around. Any tech literate people/shop can figure out how to pull data out of synology.