Do you not have a smartphone? You should be able to access internet, order things like a new computer, and access passwords all on that. Personally, my phone and desktop computer are more or less identical. Most things I do on computer eg create or amend a Note, go straight to phone.jennyjj01 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 21, 2026 1:11 am Phew, a prep that was almost too late! Backups found wanting.
The laptop died with the failure of it's 'v' key which locked down. I.e., laptop quite useless. Now the amount of stuff I could have lost access to is enormous. Gazillion passwords to all sorts of finance and business related stuff.
I pulled out the spare lappy, with the hope of transferring drives across, but that had a duff battery and power brick. Fortunately, my techy friend talked me through disconnecting the internal keyboard to use an external one on the original lappy.
Within minutes I'd ordered a replacement keyboard and a replacement spare lappy off the bay. When they arrive, I'll be setting up full standby redundancy.
Passwords live in lastpass, but with no proper access to the internet, I would not have had convenient access to anything, not even the ability to order off ebay.
2 is 1 and 1 is none..... and I came that close.
That's a problem with laptops - if the keyboard is knackered, the whole thing is knackered. I use a Mac Mini, so the keyboard and trackpad is separate. I have spares, plus a wired keyboard and mouse just in case.
I don't have a spare computer. I backup using Time Machine (Apple) to three tiny external drives, which are encrypted (in case I get burgled). If my computer died, I'd use my phone to order a new one. Most of the info on it is in the cloud anyway.
Re passwords, I have four managers, but that is overkill. Two is ok. Apple Passwords is one. Firefox has a built in one. I also use Bitwarden, as a separete manager.
Quick note about passwords on iPhones (and desktops). On my phone, I disabled the others, with only Bitwarden enabled in Autofill And Passwords in Settings. Still, the flipping phone offers to generate a password when creating a log-in in Firefox, but doesn't save it in Bitwarden, Firefox or anywhere! That's an iPhone issue, not Bitwarden or Firefox. Solution is to create it manually in Bitwarden first, ignoring iPhone's offer/suggestion. Or have it enabled for Firefox, and use that. Always worth copying a password generated in a website though, and then checking it's in FF or whatever.
