the original ricers were Japanese cars (early 80s), then from there rice came to mean cars with Race Inspired CosmeticEnhancements (90s) + from there we get rice'd out desktops (which is new to me but whatever).
I am not as sure a rice desktop png is racist but if you feel like the term is opressing you or holding you back, could you consider opportunities to reclaim what is a good word (who doesn't like rice?) and use it for positive cultural elements (modded desktops)? I don't want to cede a good word to uninformed peoples from 40 yrs ago...history is too short to let them win!
evidence points to "Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements" being a "backronym", an abbreviation that was invented after the word was already in usage – have you ever heard anyone calling an american or european car a "rice"?
anyway, happily the c/unixporn moderator didn't agree that it's possible for people not targeted by a racist term to reclaim it for themselves, and that it's not the responsibility of folks pointing out a word's bigoted history to find an alternative, and racist terminology is now banned 😌
step 3: ignore the results relating to soap, cooking, or the adorable-but-wrong backronym "Race Inspired Car Enhancements"
step 4: discover that "ricing" was a) originally used as an insult (shitty cars with lots of mods) and b) referencing people from east Asia cos, yknow, japanchinesekorean people like rice
step 5: stop using the word in the context of "mods"
20 Comments
tdawg@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Excuse me while I bookmark this like I'm ever going to put the effort into installing all of this
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Looks awesome! What's the name of the TUI file manager you're using there?
comalnik@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Damn, i forgot the file manager. Its ranger.
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
cool thanks!
Dups@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Clean af my guy!
Y2K38@lemmy.one · 2 pts · 2y
What font do you have in the bar? I never get the CPU Icon to display. Or are they just Image? But really nicely done.
comalnik@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I use Nerd fonts, they contain a bunch of icons
paolinus@feddit.it · 1 pts · 2y
Did you pause tiling for doing the screenshot allowing windows to float?
Newchair@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Alternatively make gaps 10x bigger than normal and turn on terminal transparency.
Foreverwinter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Ooh, I love how your prompt looks in your terminal. How did you make it look like that? (I didn't see anything in the alacritty yaml)
Edit: never mind, just saw that you already shared your Starship config. Thanks for sharing!
Newchair@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Noice
triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml · -6 pts · 2y
the word "rice" in this context has a super racist history and I beg you to look it up and then stop using it.
nice desktop tho
Teraflip@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
There's nothing inherently racist about using the term in the context of customizing a desktop.
triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml · -3 pts · 2y
this is the kind of thinking that gave us names like "pcmasterrace". words mean things, their origins matter
PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
the original ricers were Japanese cars (early 80s), then from there rice came to mean cars with Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements (90s) + from there we get rice'd out desktops (which is new to me but whatever).
I am not as sure a rice desktop png is racist but if you feel like the term is opressing you or holding you back, could you consider opportunities to reclaim what is a good word (who doesn't like rice?) and use it for positive cultural elements (modded desktops)? I don't want to cede a good word to uninformed peoples from 40 yrs ago...history is too short to let them win!
triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 2y
evidence points to "Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements" being a "backronym", an abbreviation that was invented after the word was already in usage – have you ever heard anyone calling an american or european car a "rice"?
anyway, happily the c/unixporn moderator didn't agree that it's possible for people not targeted by a racist term to reclaim it for themselves, and that it's not the responsibility of folks pointing out a word's bigoted history to find an alternative, and racist terminology is now banned 😌
triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 2y
sadly of course "pcmasterrace" went the other direction, polling a bunch of self-selected edgelords about the name went about as expected
PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 2y
Yes - today, rice refers to anything heavily customized for cosmetics.
shakil_tcs@mstdn.starnix.network · 2 pts · 2y
@triplenadir @comalnik I beg you to please explain, how that's possible?
triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 2y
triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml · -2 pts · 2y
step 1: go to your favourite search engine
step 2: type "origin of the term ricing"
step 3: ignore the results relating to soap, cooking, or the adorable-but-wrong backronym "Race Inspired Car Enhancements"
step 4: discover that "ricing" was a) originally used as an insult (shitty cars with lots of mods) and b) referencing people from east Asia cos, yknow, japanchinesekorean people like rice
step 5: stop using the word in the context of "mods"
step 3 takes some nuance, fair enough