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That advice is not helpful, though. Most of us used to store passwords on our computer: In our internet browsers. In plain text for anyone to grab. It was the dumbest idea ever and password managers became popular quickly in recent years as more people realized they need to protect their credentials somehow. So no, I genuinely do not believe in just storing passwords somewhere without any safety measures.
See? You're almost helpful. But I do have to ask you if that password manager has a name? You see, at this point most people would've already given up or just ask ChatGPT or Google AI about it, which in this case would be hypocrite but I digress.
Sure, had you asked about a solution rather than trying to write some sort of gotcha. KeePassXC is a fully complete password manager, better than whatever subscription crap you'd rather push, and it stores everything into an encrypted local db file you control. Now guess what I'd recommend for syncing that file across other devices.