I guess tech has been good enough to provide some kind of economic cushion that you can retain a reasonable life style as home depot as your only source of income.
It certainly has. There are other instances of former tech workers who subtely brag online about "moving to the countryside" to "raise chickens," "write poetry," or another performative lifestyle using profits from the industry they're quitting.
By tapping into a network you've ideally built over the course of your career. In the 2020s, people get good jobs from whom they know, not what they know.
The great thing about Bitwarden is its ability to sync passwords between multiple devices seamlessly. KeePassXC is the next move here, and I'd like to know how people made syncing work, especially for iPhone users.