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.
Known as the Praxis Effect amongst movie nerds or, in the Homestar Runner universe, "those blast-wavey Saturn rings that have become so popular lately."
"You're about two kilometers outside the anomaly."
"Chuck."
"I'm sorry, what?"
"The anomaly. I named the anomaly 'Chuck'."
"NEVER name the anomalies. That's how you get hurt."
That was actaully a brick joke in the first episode of Archer. Here's the first part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahObgDYU58E
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.
JFC. I knew that show was bad, but I honestly feel like I'm thicker from having watched that. You can't just post shit like that without warning.