[phyller]

Consider this. I am in a coffee shop. Someone walks by and grabs my machine. This is a huge annoyance, need to replace and setup a new machine vs. (with my password manager getting hacked) my life is basically over because as far as anyone is concerned the thief is more me than I am. Depending on who took it, I might as well move to the forest and live in a mud hut because I am never going to be able to clean this up.

This actually happened to someone at my company. But their passwords weren't compromised. If they were, I can't even imagine, the guys who took the machine were really trying to do whatever they could to ruin him and the company.

[dasil003]

Hold on, are laptop thieves skilled in cracking encrypted password managers? Even if they are I think you'd have time to rotate passwords.

[pvg]

my life is basically over

You make it sound like there's no mitigation at all for a password being compromised which isn't the case in practice.

[phyller]

The problem is 200 passwords being compromised, including my emails which are used to reset everything else. I can't fix it faster than the thief can wreck my digital life, and everything is digital now. I couldn't even start until I somehow convince my email provider who I am and to change the password for me.

If this ever happens, best plan would probably be to change your email password immediately, banks next, and freeze your credit as soon as possible.