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A password is simply a means of proving that you are who you say you are. It is a token you submit to access a certain page on the deep web. If a page is on the deep web, it simply means it cannot be indexed by search engines. Of course, you do not want someone else to pose as you, which is why you should have a secure, unique password. Now, in the current day and age, you are very likely to have many different accounts. It will be hard to memorize every password, and this is where password managers come in.
Now, if you think of password managers, you probably think of LastPass, RoboForm, Dashlane, or 1Pass. And while these services are proprietary and pretty expensive, not all password managers are that way. Keepass is an open source password manager, and while Keepass itself isn't that great, there are forks of it called Keepass-XC and Keepass-DX which are way better. Keepass-XC supports Windows, Mac, and all Linux distros via AppImage, while Keepass-DX supports all Android ROMs via F-Droid or Google Play. Both of them support most of the expected features, though only Keepass-XC supports checking if any of your passwords have been breached, and Keepass-DX will not support security keys until version 3.3.0 comes out [1]. That means that at the moment, I recommend using Syncthing to sync the keyfile created with Keepass-XC and using Nextcloud to sync the database.
NOTE ON INSTALLING PROGRAMS: If you do not know how to install a program, see my guide [2].
1. Download and Install Keepass-XC [3]
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