[Hyprland] My first rice!
[Hyprland] My first rice!
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What's rice?
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A borderline racial slur about making things look good without substance behind the appearance: e.g.: "riced-up Honda civic"
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I'm sure op didn't mean it as a racial slur. The word might have a history but it means something entirely different today, at least in this context.
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I agree, but it should still be retired regardless of intended usage - history matters; we don't have to mistakenly other people to show off cool screenshots
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How is it racist? I didnt know it had a bad meaning.
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It's "rice" because it's asian; it's a derogatory term used towards people and their cars. When I was younger, this term was used against asian drivers and their asian cars - and it was not a compliment.
Looking at Urban Dictionary I see no mention of this anti-asian side of it, but it was there when I was growing up. Maybe others can chime in with their experience, I imagine it wasn't the same everywhere.
Not implying the people using it here are being racist, I don't think they are aware of what I'm recalling here.
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The Wikipedia article says it’s derived from the term “rice burner” and talks about the history of the term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner
I can say I first heard the term about 20 years ago about cars with unnecessary decals and accessories, and it definitely had a racist connotation then.
I certainly wouldn’t use the term myself and I cringe when people use it here.
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Well this is pretty sad. I didnt know this. Sidenote: fuck rasist people.
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Think of the movie Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift. It's used to describe unnecessary modifications to a street racer (led lights, decals, etc...) that was mockingly called "ricing" because it was prevalent in the asian street racing communities. (rice eaters...har har har...)
I thought I was the only one who cringed whenever I heard that word. But this thread is making me realize I'm not crazy.
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to "rice" a system you are often changing a lot of "dot files", hidden configuration files on your system which begin with a period in the name. having a bunch of dots (like rice) is descriptive but also can be a reference to a racist term used about tuning asian vehicles.
when linux users use it they're usually just referring to a bunch of altered configuration files which are generally dot files. thus, a rice. but im not sure the term would exist if the racist term hadn't already.
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im not sure the term would exist if the racist term hadn’t already.
It definitely wouldn't. That's not really a term that occurs "organically" in computer language. "Rice" has nothing to do with computers, so it would have had to come from somewhere else.
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