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
                22·
                1 year ago

                Ok, so you’re not necessarily a transphobe, but just another of this string of month-old accounts who has barely been active on this site at all beyond throwing a tantrum about hexbear users “coming in and ruining everything”.

                • DrRatso@lemmy.ml
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Well I’d vager it is because we come to lemmy to escape reddit and all we see is hexbear users coming in and ruining everything. I mean as I stated earlier, even blahaj considering defedding from hexbear should be telling of the state of affairs. If that community has a problem with you, and that does not raise any flags, idk what does.

                  • AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
                    14·
                    1 year ago

                    even blahaj considering defedding from hexbear should be telling of the state of affairs

                    I don’t want to go all “well akshually” here, but actually we defedded from blahaj because the community is largely made up of r/196 users who post transphobic chaser shit without getting banned by the mods there. Yes, of course these people also have a problem with us because they’re rabid anti-communists, but we defedded form them because they’re a bunch of sex pests fetishizing and objectifying trans people and thinking it’s ok to make demands about which genitals we’re allowed to have to please their fetishes. Why should we stay federated with an instance like that?

      • MorelaakIsBack [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        361·
        1 year ago

        when a conservative gets unreasonably triggered they are 5-15x more likely to start projecting

        mothers milk dripping off their lips

        this is very evocative dr ratso, would you like to talk some more about your relationship with your mother? thonk

        • DrRatso@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          Lmao, is that supposed to hurt my feelings?

          But wait. Hold your horses there mr inclusivity. Is that a fatshaming insult?