2026-05-20 13:24 UTC
I'm writing/updating a doc for my wife for "what if" scenario in case I'm incapacitated and can't deal with tech in our lives. It's been a sobering experience. DNS, Email, various self-hosted services, passwords/2FA/recovery codes, home-automation, networking, encrypted backups....
#selfhosting is great and I would not discourage folks from it, but if others depend on you - don't be a single point of failure with no recovery. Stuff happens...
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@drizzy@cyberplace.social 2026-05-20 13:56
I also just realized using #yubikey makes for a much easier failure scenario especially when I consider "what if my phone was lost/destroyed too" (Maybe I got lost in the woods or in an airplane crash who knows) Describing how to get to Synology and restore Aegis backup gets complicated. But "use yubikey from my keychain or the backup one from the office safe" is much easier to describe