Do you know which Jack is your favourite? You should have a contest determine your favourite Jack. A Jack-Off, if you will.
I don’t know why but I thought they were some special inaccessible computers.
It's their marketing. Marketing, marketing, bullshit and marketing. Macs get viruses, Macs have vulnerabilities, Macs crash. Doesn't matter how much their indoctrinated fans might claim otherwise, Macs are just weird PCs. In that context, their refusal to allow their owners to control them is all the more jarring and makes owning the older models like you mentioned all the more sensible.
The phrase "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" was coined to mock the sort asanine bullshit that grifters spouted, and eventually those same grifters started to use it unironically and without any self-awareness.
Interesting to see "trust me bro" get the same treatment.
"If you don't vote, you vote for the winner."
This is really niche, but most organisations have a Microsoft Active Directory, or equivalent, that tracks users, their credentials, and their permissions. The sign of a bad AD admin: permissions directly applied to user objects without any intermediary objects or abstraction in AD.
I feel like this headline is like The Onions' "No Way To Prevent This"; they can just keep on reusing it.
"Federation" is like "non-fungible token". Everyone knows what it is, but they've never heard it called that.
The apartment blocks - two of perhaps a hundred - are surrounded by open greenery, wide walkways and dense tram networks. Most of them have café bars, bookstores, grocery stores or the like on the ground level and loads of benches, play areas and exercise equipment dotted about. The place is rife with Third Places.
The remarkable thing about these is that, to the locals, they seem fairly unremarkable.
If you've got a spare quarter-hour, take a listen to the disquiet all those gifts can cause.