Wow this article is kinda shit. MD5 was on the chopping block for password hashing over 20 years ago. It’s so seriously broken that if someone is using it they deserve to get bludgeoned to death with a Model M keyboard. We have purpose built solutions just for password hashing.

The only thing the fine bad article sorta got right was two factor. I say kinda because biometrics (something you are) isn’t that great of a second factor. Mainly because you can’t change it. Also, it’s a fuzzy match rather than a hard match. It can be acceptable to use locally and where all the information stays locally AND there is sufficient hardware based security where said biometrics isn’t going to get off the device.

Finally, there was no mention of any kind of physical token based factor (something you have). Which pairs well with password, passphrase, or any other “something you know” factor.

Given the current price of RAM and SSDs, I don’t see how a $200 laptop is even viable to sell. Unless it is barely scraping by on specs or comes loaded with craplets and spyware.

Just doing a quick search, all I’m seeing is stuff in the $350 range with 4 or 8 GB of RAM. I’m not familiar with the genre of games you play, but I don’t think they would run well on that. Or run at all. Haven’t even looked at the gpu or cpu specs.

I would try to find something used and compare specs against the min and recommended hardware requirements for the games you play.