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Basically people will call really visually pleasing things within a hobby porn. Like on some places online you can find food porn, which is simply really delicious looking food that's nicely presented( Yes it's kinda an edgy joke to call it porn).
But it's not made to be sexual and no one except maybe 0000000000.1% of people( I don't want to think about it) probably get turned on by it.
Anyway back to riceing DWM and st.
I think you meant to put that decimal a bit further left....
No, they did not
0000000000.1% = 0.1%
Now I'm thinking of all the poor people who like neatly laid out documents but can't find what they want when looking for visually pleasing layout techniques.
Now I'm thinking of all the poor people who like neatly laid out documents but can't find what they want when looking for visually pleasing layout techniques.
Its spelled "eunuch porn"
because half of the wallpapers are either hentai or sexy anime characters.
morally cuestionable hentai WP covering 4/5 of a 16:9 monitor
"I love how you rounded the corners of the tiles"
Also never understood why it's called "rice" instead of a "theme". Every DE uses the term "theme" but /unixporn uses the term "rice" for some reason.
Ricing came from the term rice-rocket from Japanese car enthusiasts which referred to the mods for their cars (physical mods, paint, stickers, etc). Transformed into rice/ricing eventually just because terms tend to shorten, and eventually jumped to other circles.
I usually think of a theme as a widely distributed/standardized set of appearances that anyone can load and use while a rice is customized and unique to that person
The only thing that comes to me is that someone who was really into tuning/spiffing up Japanese cars was involved in the community early on. I've always found it weird, and I'd honestly kinda prefer to just use "theme" or "spiff" or one of the many other words that the Godfucked curse of the Earth that is the English language provides for the purpose.
dude with flames, topless anime character designs, no hood and a fart can skids into view
VTEC YOOOOOO
fart can intensifies
Carefully eases over speed bump
Sssssccrraaaape
Ricing vehicles (mostly cars) used to be a big thing, enough so that when "rice" first started being used it was a common term to even people not into the hobby. I think it's a... not skeumorphism, but whatever the tern is for anachronisms like "files" and "folders." Metaphors carried over from the before-times.
Unlike "disks" which is a term that used to refer to a specific thing that's largely been replaced by rectangular solid state devices. I feel as if there are, or should be, terms for these language elements.
why not throw in just a teensy bit of racism in your vocabulary :9
I'm don't understand, what are you referring to?
The etymology of riceing in cars is pretty directly racist
Yeah, that's why I wish the community would just use a different term. I'm not a fan of where it came from (Asian people bad asian motorcycle bad), and the arguments where one person says "I've been saying it for years," versus "bro it's been fucking racist for years," have gone past the point of a beaten and dead horse and into the realm of a fine mist of blood, fat, muscle, and viscera. Like, I just don't understand why people are attached to it, it's such a weird hill to die on. If it's a matter of having a term that people outside of the community wouldn't immediately understand, then I'm sure a different word could be found.
Edit: christ, I was not familiar with its usage in the 1930s. What a mess... Also, really loving the section on its Korean war usage, that's just great. Thanks for the link, it reaffirms my desire for the community to just use a different goddamned word.
I just don't understand why people are attached to it
Because words aren't racist, people and opinions and sentiments expressed by them are.
When the term ricing is used for so long and 95%+ of people don't know where it came from and have zero negative connotations associated with it, your argument (from their perspective) sounds like this:
"Don't use the term, (by its obscure origin you didin't even know about) it is racist"
"I've been saying it for years without any racism intended nor perceived"
"bro ~~it's been~~ you are being a fucking racist for years"
And then you are surprised by the negative reaction...
I think my initial read of your comment was wrong (I thought you were saying that the term was fine, which didn't hold up on my second read where I was paying attention), so I want to clarify by saying what I think you mean. You're making the point that I should be saying that the statement is racist and that they should consider whether or not they want to use it, not that they are being racist by using it in ignorance.
Is that right? Because if so, that's a fair point. More flies with honey than vinegar and all that. I'm normally better about giving people a chance to consider rather than just dictate my beliefs, but I'm sleep deprived and cranky and I think it's making me act in ways that aren't aligned with my usual values.
Edit: and it's a sign that I need to get off of the Internet for now, since I'm being waaaay more negative than I want to be.
TIL wow
I think because the term of modifying japanese cars are called Rice
i prefer to call them themes, it's more descriptive. i usually call them rices ironically. i guess use whichever term you prefer idk
All these answers are good but for the real answer: because reddit did a thing where they had "X"porn around like, idk, '07 ish. Earthporn, spaceporn, unixporn, etc. It's just (supposed to be anyway) very pretty pictures of pretty things related to the topic, like for instance a scenic waterfall for earthporn, some cool nebula with a bunch of colors added in for spaceporn, and a sick i3 rice for unixporn.
Unix: Linux, bsd, OSX and many more OS's are Unix based
(Afaik unix was it's own OS back in the day but i have often heard that unix nowadays is regarded as more of a philosophy)
Porn: is often used to say something looks really good: foodporn, earthporn etc.
Probably just line any safe for work communities that had also "porn" in its name. Just using the word to mean that it is very appealing.
it's better than the ones ending in "masterrace" ngl. those really bother me. like try to explain where you found a (final) solution to a PC problem to your grandpa who fought the nazis
I feel like they'd probably be more concerned about the rise and return of Nazism to the US more then a subreddit name.
GNU is not unix
Why not linuxporn or gnuporn?
Maybe to be more inclusive towards macOS or BSD users.
Cause there's also BSDs in there. And sometimes ~~mac~~ shiddinOS
