That's probably just to compensate for grip strength or range of motion with the knife. By backwards do you mean point near the elbow? If so you can get more leverage that way.
Ok we won't talk about anything that doesn't change votes three years from now. I guess we won't talk about anything.
I've been using keepass for years. If someone gets a hold of the vault file, the passphrase could potentially be found. Unless you do selfhost correctly, yeah you want to trust somebody else.
That's a ticket I would go and overnight mail a pre configured IP KVM