9 mo. ago • 99%

literally me ruwule :3

image transcript: caption reads "boys when they're ricing their arch linux twink pad" over a drawing of the boykisser cat with thigh highs on and a laptop edited in. end transcription.

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I'm more like this tho

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- man is running gnu/linux on his garden mad props meowza
  
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Why has "twinkpad" never occurred to me?? That's brilliant.

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Can we please replace the racist slang? I get that there's not currently a better single word for superficial janky optimization but I'm sure one of y'all is funny enough to come up with one

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- This was already a discussion and it was determined no one cares about the term because barely anyone even knows what it's roots are or sees it that way, everyone thinks "car modding". Notably neither did Asian users who have been using the term for decades. this is just tone policing for the sake of it, you're creating problems where there are none
  
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  It clearly wasn't "determined". Asian users can speak for themselves, they don't need you to do it for them.
  
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  I'm in the comments right now trying to figure out why cheap Japanese cars are in the meme
  
  What's the other definition?
  
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  Every single person who has ever slightly been exposed to car culture knows exactly what it is and knows exactly where it came from: hateful, racist boomers making up a derogatory term for Japanese cars.
  
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  lol it's racist but we should just pretend it isn't because the kids wanna use it 🙄
  
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- Could just call it 'twinking'
  
  Y'know, like tweaking...but with thigh highs
  
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  Wouldn’t twinkering be better?
  
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  I could get behind that.
  
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- I think we have discussed about this before but in my opinion alone, what matters is the context, ricing in tbe linux community obiviously isn't used in a discriminatory manner or intent, come on
  
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  I haven't discussed this here before, you must be thinking of someone else. Anyway, in my opinion, since it's a word explicitly created to make fun of Asian people and Asian cars, like many slurs associating a bunch of different cultures with a staple food, it kinda doesn't matter what someone's "intent" is when they use it.
  
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- Isn't ricing a term for car modding? How is it racist?
  
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  Yeah it is; specifically Japanese cars because Asian = rice I guess?
  
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  https://www.reddit.com/r/askcarguys/comments/5bcj1z/what_does_ricer_mean_i_always_hear_people_calling/
  
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  https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Gentoo-is-Rice.html
  
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- Pepperoni (derogatory)
  
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  You can't say that and not include the image:
  
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- Yeah bro, agree. "Rice" is super cringe.
  It gives hateful boomer
  
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- sowwy i didnt know ricing was racist term >~< i try make edit later today meowrrr
  
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the thighhighs are to prevent burns

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- real thoooo my lappytop has bad cooling and gets stinkywarm XP
  
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Posts new photos on !unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone every week

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- Wow, there really is a Lemmy for everything.
  
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i just bought a thinkpad :3

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- hell yeah !!
  
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- What vintage? Is it a good year?
  
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  11e edu, type is 20DA-S06T00
  
  had computrace, but it removed after a while on wifi
  
  I got it permanently disabled in bios after rpcnet stopped and a reboot
  
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!UnixSocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone for the uninitiated.

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Is this gen alpha humor?

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- hey im a proud zoomer >:3
  
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Wtf is this BS?

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- It’s a reference to !unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone and how there’s a large overlap between Unix users and transgirls/femboys.
  
  Because if you’re looking to pay out-of-pocket for an incredibly expensive transition, the best way to do it is to get a good job where people don’t care what you look like on a day-to-day basis, has lots of flexibility for working from home, and isn’t full of conservative chasers. And programming has historically been that job.
  
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  There is not. Good luck trying to call the nerds tranies
  
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I like HP business laptops more

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