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Personally I'd put a higher priority on stamping out that use of "porn".

I removed this because it has nothing to do with linux specifically, and as expected, it brought out a lot of people defending the use of this historically racist term, and /asablackman'ing it.

I've reinstated it and removed the offending comments for now.

Also I don't know why this needs a discussion at all. There's hundreds of words in english for something that looks good, and you can be more specific about it : snazzy, sleek, cool, streamlined, nifty, retro

Isn't it the same as tuning?

Although it's unclear what tuning is because it depends on who says it:

• It does mean doing modifications to a vehicle for actual performance improvements
• It's used extensively by ricers to describe themselves and their hobby and they think it's a positive term
• It's used extensively by people who dislike ricing and most definitely as a derogatory term

Yet for all its faults, I believe that's the closest word to ricing you'll find that is universally understood, neutral and isn't rendered hopelessly bland and meaningless by the process of political correctness newspeak.

This will and probably has got a bunch of flak but I'm with you. There's nothing wrong with recognising when we can pick a better term for something we enjoy.

Like, I get why people use "-porn" as a suffix and it isn't offensive to me but I still won't use that in a workplace. It'd be cool if someone thought of a better neologism!

Please report posts & comments that make use of the term on lemmy.ml; we remove them.

Oh god, this stuff is so tiring.

Here I am, an Asian, reclaim it to be neutral meaning. I will still use ricing.

Go check any English Asia Linux Group, especially on YouTube and Facebook Group, people are using ricing neutrally.

Language change with time, and making it neutral is totally fine and okay.

What you're doing here is just yet another instance of Westerner forcing "correct English," not realizing English is a global language and can develop independently outside US, Canada, or Europe.

Spice/spiced could work. But it's still an allusion, not sure if that defeats the point.

For example, 4chan forcibly invented the use of the ok hand for “white power”, as a collective prank

Which, outside of specific contexts where you're already confident someone is a WN, was quickly forgotten and never really took off. It's not a great example of a social shift.

Can't people refer to it as their personalized setups? Or is that too hard to write?

I've always used decked regarding to it.

I'm calling it giving the dirstro top surgery from now on

This is a tough one, because to me "ricing" or "riced out" carries additional negative undertones (racism aside). I have always heard it used in a way implying that it was referencing enhancements done in a cheap or gaudy/classless way. Think of the most Razer-like LED adorned gaming PC setup, that could have easily been described as being "riced up".

I think the phrase "decked out" works OK, and seems to also lack the negative connotation, which may or not be in line with the goal here.

Also, seeing your example ideas you shot down, I am not sure you full understand "souping up" phrase. The term "souped up" has been in use for over a century and I still hear people use it pretty frequently. It is generally meant to imply something has been made faster or more powerful, frequently with cars, and probably why some people argue it is a shortened version of supercharged. I agree that it probably isn't a good fit here, but not being of how it sounds.

@fool wait, how is this racist?

Customization is good!

Saw the .de domain and my first thought was this was about using a potato ricer to make spätzle. I may not be normal.

Customizing the shit out of

Decked out? Cranked?

Don't worry about it, nobody says that any more. It died out with Gentoo.

Interface tailoring, desktop tapestry, jamming all up in my pazaaz.

Zhush/zhoosh could work - I don't think the word is commonly used enough that it would get confusing.

rizzing?

eye-rolling

Can't rice our Linux distros or cars because of woke

Jokes aside, RICE means "Race-inspired cosmetic enhancement" apparently

The only insult I know of this "ricing" term is, that its meant to be pretty only without performance. This comes from ricing Japanese cars. It is not racist and has nothing to do with Japanese people. The insult has nothing to do with that.

So Fetch

maybe something derived from dekotora? it has most of the same associations as the term we're looking to replace while not having racist or pejorative origins. deko?

We need to make it offensive to white people instead. So colonising.