Am I missing a step?

[Patrick]

@justqurious

so is there a decent entropy calculator i can use?

I mentioned some Libre Software ones in a forum discussion here (no claims about decency either yes/no):

password advice wiki page enhancements

That article needs more contents. Suggest different password per website. Not password1, password2, Password alike variations. Explain why that is. Attackers use passwords which were leaked in one website as templates so they don’t have to fall back on “totally” brute force attacks. Don’t use online password generators for anything but curiosity / learning. That is because there is a very good chance the server could log them. The only place where passwords should be generated is locally, id…