I grew up building random stuff using a hodgepodge of incomplete Lego sets that my parents got from car boot sales. Later they bought me some new sets as well, but sooner or later all the pieces ended up in the big box anyway.

I don't think I would have become a programmer, if not for those weekends when I would sit in front of a desk-sized box of bricks with no instructions and imagine what I could build.

35 years later, I still browse the local Lego store from time to time. But most of the sets I find nowadays are only intended for a single configuration, usually associated with a specific IP like Star Wars or Harry Potter. Too fragile, too many stickers and custom pieces. I'm glad that the proceeds from these collectible sets help Lego stay profitable in the smartphone age, but God I miss those random Lego weekends. Brb, gotta ask my dad whether he still has that box of old bricks in his attic.

They can just buy a regular Ryzen 9000 series CPU, then. Maybe add a real graphics card if they're into gaming.

Keep a few throwaway Hotmail/Outlook addresses in your password manager, in case you need to use a Windows PC that demands a Microslop account. That's about the end of their usefulness.

Just like Internet Explorer used to be the program you used once -- and only once -- to download a proper browser.

The eggs had better be deviled, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviled_egg

They probably mean "Should look like the output of json_encode($data, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT)". Which most PHP devs would be familiar with.