• Two9A@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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.

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      The way I understand it, it’s specifically not to gain more speed, but completely focused on aesthetics. Themes, background, and other touches to make it look pretty, and perhaps some UX aspects too.

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      1 day ago

      I thought ricing was when asian street food vendors would make their small food carts all fancy looking?

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          That’s my understanding. Racist shit. Back when I was super into classic cars and muscle/pony shit, I had a friend say “I don’t know about you, but I like my cars to run on gas, not rice.”