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.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      17·
      10 months ago

      It’s mommy, please edit your post while i look up your defense of racism in the modlogs. I’d have to report you for purposefully leaving up a misgendering otherwise and i don’t think your account will survive that after all these comments have already been removed.

      • DrRatso@lemmy.ml
        1·
        10 months ago

        Lmao, I won’t idulge your powertrip, which at this point is blatant. I might have if you had actually asked nicely not through a thinly veiled threat. If it doesn’t survive your report, so be it. Let the record show I included both versions because I had no clue what your pronouns are and I don’t think your infantilizing response warrants any more respect from me than that.

        • AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          20·
          10 months ago

          I retract my statement, of course you’re also a transphobe besiodes being a racist, a diaper fetishist and the most pathetic pencil-headed dweeb i’ve seen since federation began.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      BTW this really isn’t a good look for somebody who’s already revealed their breastfeeding fetish, maybe you want to cut that part out entirely.