MONSTA

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Cake day: September 20th, 2024

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  • The big issue isn’t using it, it’s syncing it.

    User A used KeePass to order pizza and changed the Papa John’s(heaven forbid) password while they were at it, on their desktop.

    syncing: “oh! This file changed! Neat!”

    User B picks up their phone and wants to order Papa John’s at work. They try, but the password isn’t right. Huh. They check KeePass. No issues. They go to change the password because they think something is wrong.

    (All the while, they never thought to see if syncthing had been woken up in the background lately)

    They change the password, update KeePass,

    syncthing opens later, goes: "Oh, hi, User B’s phone! I have a ne- Oh! You have a new password file too!!? Small world! I’ll take both!

    Now there’s two files, two users who think they both made corrections to a password, syncthing thinking nothing is wrong, and someone has to now merge the newer KeePass file over the old ones by hand and realize what happened, but the bigger problem is, no one knows anything is wrong yet and it doesn’t even take two users. This can just be you ordering on your phone after modifying on your desktop.

    well, it’s just pizza.

    As an example. Imagine an insurance app, or a banking app, or the DMV… And you won’t know for months down the line. It gets old.