> I cannot conceive of any situation that would make a 64 character password necessary
Password for a streaming service that you want to use on your smart TV/Roku/Fire TV/Apple TV/Cable box.
Ideally, they provide some way so you do not have to type your password using a crappy onscreen keyboard and the up/down/left/right/enter keys on your remote. For example, I've seen some that tell you a simple URL (https://<comany_name>/add_device, say) and show you numeric code. You go to that site on your computer, log in to your account, and then enter the code from your device. Your password manager deals with the password.
Sadly, some do not do this, and you find yourself entering your password via the remote and on screen keyboard. Every time your password has a change between {upper case letter, lower case letter, number, punctuation} you have to navigate to some kind of shift key and hit it.
I do not want to try to enter some password like "sW3/W4Bmbx=Md%" that way.
An alternative might be a password that consists of 4 groups of 16 lower case letters, with no duplicate letters within a group, with the first and third groups sorted so the letters are encountered in this order: qwertyuioplkjhgfdsazxcvbnm [1]. The second and fourth groups are sorted using the reverse of that order.
That gives you a 64 character all lower case letter password that can be entered by starting at 'q' and then scanning across the keyboard back and forth, row by row, hitting enter when you come to the characters that are part of the password. It has about the same entropy as "sW3/W4Bmbx=Md%" but might be less frustrating to type. Most of the time entering it you are only having to deal with two remote keys. The arrow for the direction of your scan on the current keyboard row and enter, with just an occasional up/down to move between rows.
(If it is a smart TV or cable box, there is a decent chance the remote includes a numeric keypad. In that case I'd consider a 27 character all digit password, if I wanted something with about the same entropy as "sW3/W4Bmbx=Md%").
[1] assuming the on screen keyboard is QWERTY. Some use alphabetical order.
Password for a streaming service that you want to use on your smart TV/Roku/Fire TV/Apple TV/Cable box.
Ideally, they provide some way so you do not have to type your password using a crappy onscreen keyboard and the up/down/left/right/enter keys on your remote. For example, I've seen some that tell you a simple URL (https://<comany_name>/add_device, say) and show you numeric code. You go to that site on your computer, log in to your account, and then enter the code from your device. Your password manager deals with the password.
Sadly, some do not do this, and you find yourself entering your password via the remote and on screen keyboard. Every time your password has a change between {upper case letter, lower case letter, number, punctuation} you have to navigate to some kind of shift key and hit it.
I do not want to try to enter some password like "sW3/W4Bmbx=Md%" that way.
An alternative might be a password that consists of 4 groups of 16 lower case letters, with no duplicate letters within a group, with the first and third groups sorted so the letters are encountered in this order: qwertyuioplkjhgfdsazxcvbnm [1]. The second and fourth groups are sorted using the reverse of that order.
That gives you a 64 character all lower case letter password that can be entered by starting at 'q' and then scanning across the keyboard back and forth, row by row, hitting enter when you come to the characters that are part of the password. It has about the same entropy as "sW3/W4Bmbx=Md%" but might be less frustrating to type. Most of the time entering it you are only having to deal with two remote keys. The arrow for the direction of your scan on the current keyboard row and enter, with just an occasional up/down to move between rows.
(If it is a smart TV or cable box, there is a decent chance the remote includes a numeric keypad. In that case I'd consider a 27 character all digit password, if I wanted something with about the same entropy as "sW3/W4Bmbx=Md%").
[1] assuming the on screen keyboard is QWERTY. Some use alphabetical order.