ColdWater@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agospend hours ricing my desktop and decided I hated it at the end, and ended up wiping my entire OSlemmy.caimagemessage-square129fedilinkarrow-up1543arrow-down127
arrow-up1516arrow-down1imagespend hours ricing my desktop and decided I hated it at the end, and ended up wiping my entire OSlemmy.caColdWater@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square129fedilink
minus-squareTwo9A@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·21 hours agoAs I understand it, ricing a machine is to excessively modify it to achieve more speed, users of Gentoo being the origina ricers in the Linux world. The term itself has dubious and arguably racist origins, in the world of modification of Japanese cars for street racing.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-219 hours agoIsn’t ricing when you make a car look fast when it’s actually just a piece of shit? That’s how I’ve always heard it used until linux nerds started applying it to their GUI systems.
minus-squarefleton@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·20 hours agoI thought ricing was when asian street food vendors would make their small food carts all fancy looking?
As I understand it, ricing a machine is to excessively modify it to achieve more speed, users of Gentoo being the origina ricers in the Linux world.
The term itself has dubious and arguably racist origins, in the world of modification of Japanese cars for street racing.
Isn’t ricing when you make a car look fast when it’s actually just a piece of shit? That’s how I’ve always heard it used until linux nerds started applying it to their GUI systems.
I thought ricing was when asian street food vendors would make their small food carts all fancy looking?