Xorg.conf was genuinely something I never quite grokked.

I mean, I get it, it's a conf file for Xorg... but in practice, either your X11 worked out of the box, or it just didn't, and no manner of fiddling with the config and restarting the server would save it.

You could install other drivers and blacklist others, and that would get it to work, but touching the Xorg config file itself and expecting different results was like trying to squeeze blood out of a stone.

Sam Rockwell as Zaphod was spot on. He was the only one who actually read the books, and had to even tell the director to add "Froody" to the script. What a shitshow it must have been for the director not to know that....

https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/fish/tough-teeth-and-parrotfish-poop

In a year, one large parrotfish can produce 1,000 pounds (450 kg) of sand, the weight of a baby grand piano.

Most of the sand comes from waves sloshing onto rocks though, right? right?

Anon used the word 'bro' when they should have used the word 'friend' and cupped the balls of their white shirt brother. Also, that's a t-shirt not a shirt, no wonder anon disappoints everyone

You mean those watery packets of cheese I sometimes buy aren't supposed to taste like watered down kangaroo testicles?

When German people go to hell, or skiing, they are forced into little tents, served shitty overpriced beer, and are subject to repeated blows to their ears by a type of parasitic earworm whispered fearfully only in dark circles as "schlagermusik".

Once exposed to it, it eats into their brain and gets behind their eyeballs, forcing them to wear manic grins, and tap tables to the weak, incoherent, barely thought out beats drumming mercilessly into what's left of their soul.

The initial reaction was good, but through later interaction with the artist it became clear that it was a one off thing, unrelated to the canon of the series, and unrelated to anything happening in his life. His overall hostility to questions about it turned people to the idea that he did it to steal undeserved pathos from his audience. Thus, he became a clown.

I’m surprised they aren’t offsetting the cost by selling all our data to language learning models like everyone else is

Hah. Hahaha. Hahahahahahaahahahahahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

I'm not against people having a second or third home, as I don't see the class above mine (a farmer getting a side hustle from his family house now that his kids have moved away) as particularly threatening or exploitative.

It's the faceless class above that I hold issue with, coordinated rent seeking behaviour to the degree of being able to fix prices in an area. These do tend to be in the "10+ homes" category

"Sire, the procreation class are getting unruly again with the constant non-stop onslaught. Many question whether their fallen sperm bretheren are even attempting to inseminate an egg."

Normally yes, but MapMen are British gems - up there with Curious Droid, and the Red T-shirt guy

I remember back when I thought all FOSS was part of the FSF, and that itself was formed of hippie liberal progressives. Had a rude awakening when I found about the MIT vs GPL rift, and then another on HN when I realised half the people in software were just there to make money.