A Reddit user's ant-infested PC has destroyed my hopes for a real life Discworld computer
Oh fine, I will explain Hex. And also, if I have time, a real life man with ants in his computer. The Discworld series is one of slightly metafictional adult fantasy. A reference to the earliest kind of punchcard data processing, you see? Hex pops up in successive books and becomes smarter, and accrues more references. The doesn’t do anything, but if the mouse is removed then Hex stops working....