Ask HN: How are you managing aging relatives passwords? • Hacker News Board

toast0 wrote: post #12

Write it down in the book: https://www.amazon.com/What-Fuck-Password-Other-Remember/dp/... Keep the book in the office by the laptop.

My grandparents did this, but didn’t realise that it would be useful to write down what each password was for. They also didn’t realise that the spelling of a password was important.

I don’t even…

Re: Ask HN: How are you managing aging relatives passwords?

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Post by toast0 » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 11:00 PM UTC

cjs_ac wrote: post #14

toast0 wrote: post #12

Write it down in the book: https://www.amazon.com/What-Fuck-Password-Other-Remember/dp/... Keep the book in the office by the laptop.

My grandparents did this, but didn’t realise that it would be useful to write down what each password was for. They also didn’t realise that the spelling of a password was important. I don’t even…

lol well yeah. This book has fields for website, and A-Z legends, so presumably you put your Amazon password in the A section, and your hacker news password in the H section, and it's useful.

But I've been helping my MIL with some tech stuff lately. She signed up for Verizon 5G home internet, and cancelled her whole Comcast/Xfinity account. And was then surprised to find she wouldn't have cable TV anymore. :P

Also, Verizon coverage in her unit is terrible which she should know because she has them for her cell phone. But I guess she never realized that the internet was good at home because of the wifi from cable. sigh