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If all characters are equally likely, it's a fine password. It's long and certainly immune to any dictionary attack.
But if the attacker knows it's generated with this method, then it is probably a poor one. Bottoms tend to spam only homerow keys, either in all lowecase or all uppercase. The restricted character set vastly reduces the search space.
Yeah, because it's 90% home-row spam.
stop ruining the fun, you fun ruiner