this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
110 points (63.3% liked)

Unixporn

15400 readers
67 users here now

Unixporn

Submit screenshots of all your *NIX desktops, themes, and nifty configurations, or submit anything else that will make themers happy. Maybe a server running on an Amiga, or a Thinkpad signed by Bjarne Stroustrup? Show the world how pretty your computer can be!

Rules

  1. Post On-Topic
  2. No Defaults
  3. Busy Screenshots
  4. Use High-Quality Images
  5. Include a Details Comment
  6. No NSFW
  7. No Racism or use of racist terms

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (43 children)

The arguments being made here are the same ones that were used for f*ggot, tr*p, nword, g*psy, r*dskins, etc etc etc.

It's the same damn thing every single time, a bunch of reactionaries will piss and whine and piss and whine and piss and whine because they have to make the most minimal amount of effort to adopt a new word in their vocabulary instead of the problem one. They will piss and whine forever until eventually accepting it, like all the others historically.

They join a long long line of pissy whiney losers for making the same tired old arguments we've seen for so many things before.

[–] DrRatso@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (33 children)

The problem in this thread was civil untill you(i.e. hexbear) decided to come in and spew your bullshit all over the thread as you always do.

You can save the “we came upon this thread organically” bullshit, I have seen no or almost no hexbear users in this community outside of this thread and now suddenly theres a swarm of you with your garbage ragebaiting and insults all over the place, somehow being upvoted despite most top level comments going against your agenda still being upvoted.

Hexbear is a plague on lemmy, I can’t wait for the day of instance-level blocking, but honestly I expect you will end up defederated from most major instances.

load more comments (41 replies)