Meta post I've decided to make. I enjoyed the unixporn subreddit a lot when I used reddit more. I enjoy customizing my linux de as much as the next nerd.

But you definitely shouldn't use racist slang to refer to the process.

To be clear, I didn't know the origin of the term 'ricing' until fairly recently. I was chattimg with my friend and used it to describe my de setup. They informed me that apparently it's from car customization, and is a pejorative against generally asian men who customize their car to look like a racecar.

After learning this I was sad to realize just how engrained it is in linux de customization culture. I personally have stopped using the term, and I would ask everyone here stop as well.

  • temptest [any]
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    1 year ago

    I'm not active in the community these days but I might as well through some suggestions in the mix:

    • splash (like a splash of paint)
    • face
    • tweek
    • dec (like decorate, or decked out) or deq
      • MrBubbles96@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        "Decking" brought to mind someone punching someone else at first lol

        Still, I'm still firmly on Team Toast NGL (context: someone here suggested the new term be toast, just because)

        • PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Is anyone really complaining, or just afraid?

          There is a difference between “I am not comfortable help me” and “you need to do as I say”.

          Being open to other points of view is only good right?

          And yet that is not the vibe, at all. I have only said … you do you. White knighting and telling others they are doing it wrong suppresses what should be a chill creative club.

            • PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml
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              1 year ago

              I am not looking to open your closed mode of thought. However, I'm afraid I have to disagree that rice is racist. I have experienced actual racism; not imaginary, not potential, but real and dangerous, the full-throated embodiment of human hate. It is awful and traumatic.

              Some folks making cool desktop customizations and calling it rice as a cyberpunk / counter-cultural hacker term is neither racist nor awful.

              Flip-side, this entire thread makes rice even cooler, now that there is a segment of people who have said "booo", it will be all but entrenched.

              Personally, I like /c/unixporn/"Mah Desktop $ Shot"

            • Nakoichi [they/them]
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              1 year ago

              Curious they used the term "white knighting" because that term is forever tainted by gamergate chuds using it to disparage or dismiss anyone calling out misogyny and has a direct lineage to the term SJW. 🤔