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Wendy Nather

@shortridge And it can’t wait until you’re dead. You can become temporarily or permanently disabled and need a delegate to handle things for you.

youtu.be/lU8_S0V_zOQ

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Kelly Shortridge

@wendynather precisely. we live in a stochastic reality and must prepare for that, even if it creates some existential dread in the meantime.

that's why I don't recommend just putting it in your will, too; put it somewhere in your residence.

(and like, if someone is breaking in for the purpose of accessing your devices, they can just wait until you're home and break your kneecaps anyway if you haven't written it down. for the vast majority of ppl, it's such a silly threat model)

Kelly Shortridge

@sassdawe @wendynather this does look really useful, thank you for sharing it.

listing out subscriptions is useful for anyone, too. another thing I had to do was scrutinize credit card statements over the past ~12-14 months to enumerate services and subscriptions.

thankfully, this person purchased a lot of subscriptions through the App Store, which made it much easier to cancel.

most of the others had creds stored in their iOS Password Manager, so it was easier than it might have been.

Brett Haines

@shortridge @wendynather I did this for my wife about a year ago and it's a really nice peace of mind thing. In our case it's a laminated page with a few of the most important login creds, plus the login to a password manager for all the rest. It's kept in a lock box with other important docs, hidden in the house.

It's actually come in handy a couple times without any tragedies happening!

Tony Meredith

@shortridge
Yes, it's important practical stuff.
I learnt a lesson from my brother's terminal illness. Our laptop now has a "death" folder, including both subscription details and how the heating system works. Passwords are shared between the two of us; and the family executors know where to look.
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