If every possible password is tried, sooner or later yours will be found.

https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm

Which of the following two passwords is stronger,
more secure, and more difficult to crack?

D0g.....................

PrXyc.N(n4k77#L!eVdAfp9

As an interesting aside for MAD logins you could take an easy password and prepend, eg, <Ab3-  to fulfil the "complexity" requirement :-)

Identifying hardware (memory) without opening the box

I'm considering a memory upgrade for my main laptop. The question is "what's in there now" ?
It can take up to 2 * 2GB memory cards (£15 each now !)

dmidecode --type 17

lshw -class memory

So I've got 2 * 1GB installed and have to replace them both.