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.

  • macabrett@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    You sure you didn’t go so far left you ended up in rightville? You may have dropped your red hat.

      • macabrett@hexbear.netEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        oh shit I forgot liberals babies don’t have reading comprehension skills, even for things they wrote

        okay, so you were replying to a poster named space_comrade from a mostly communist instance of lemmy and then you asked if they had gone so far left that they ended up in rightville

        hope that helps

        • midnight@lemmy.one
          1·
          1 year ago

          Usernames are irrelevant. Do you think I’m the middle of the night? Is your name Brett and you like macadamia nuts? McDonalds? Or are you taking maga and wanting to make america communist again? Are you a fan of the macabre and tt is your initials? You’re inserting your own prejudices to do a lot of heavy lifting here.

          If you want to equate maga and communism go for it. But I didn’t and no amount of your mental gymnastics will change that.

          • macabrett@hexbear.netEnglish
            10·
            1 year ago

            Okay, so just to verify, you agree that communism and MAGA are incompatible and that you cannot go so far left that you end up on the right. Glad we cleared that up!

            EDIT: oh and going by your standards of conversation, I never said you said Communism and MAGA are the same. I said a baby would say that. You called yourself a baby.

            • midnight@lemmy.one
              1·
              1 year ago

              I don’t have an opinion on their compatibility, I don’t belong to either group and don’t have any interest in either. What I do know is both of you use the same tactics when trying to argue a point. The way you try to reframe things to insert your conclusion as fact and then act like that’s the end of it is the same shit Ben Shapiro does to OwN thE LiBs. I can also say without a doubt that both groups are equally insufferable

                • midnight@lemmy.one
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  oh shit I forgot liberals babies communists don’t have reading comprehension skills, even for things they wrote

                  You wouldn’t see the reframing because your reading comprehension is ass. People hurling insults instead of addressing a point is classic maga, but go on, show me how you don’t argue a point the same while using the same tired tactics.