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Excuse me while I bookmark this like I'm ever going to put the effort into installing all of this

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Y2K38
lemmy.one

What font do you have in the bar? I never get the CPU Icon to display. Or are they just Image? But really nicely done.

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Ooh, I love how your prompt looks in your terminal. How did you make it look like that? (I didn't see anything in the alacritty yaml)

Edit: never mind, just saw that you already shared your Starship config. Thanks for sharing!

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feddit.it

Did you pause tiling for doing the screenshot allowing windows to float?

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Alternatively make gaps 10x bigger than normal and turn on terminal transparency.

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lemmygrad.ml

the word "rice" in this context has a super racist history and I beg you to look it up and then stop using it.

nice desktop tho

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Teraflipreply
lemm.ee

There's nothing inherently racist about using the term in the context of customizing a desktop.

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triplenadirreply
lemmygrad.ml

this is the kind of thinking that gave us names like "pcmasterrace". words mean things, their origins matter

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lemmy.ml

the original ricers were Japanese cars (early 80s), then from there rice came to mean cars with Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements (90s) + from there we get rice'd out desktops (which is new to me but whatever).

I am not as sure a rice desktop png is racist but if you feel like the term is opressing you or holding you back, could you consider opportunities to reclaim what is a good word (who doesn't like rice?) and use it for positive cultural elements (modded desktops)? I don't want to cede a good word to uninformed peoples from 40 yrs ago...history is too short to let them win!

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triplenadirreply
lemmygrad.ml

evidence points to "Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements" being a "backronym", an abbreviation that was invented after the word was already in usage โ€“ have you ever heard anyone calling an american or european car a "rice"?

anyway, happily the c/unixporn moderator didn't agree that it's possible for people not targeted by a racist term to reclaim it for themselves, and that it's not the responsibility of folks pointing out a word's bigoted history to find an alternative, and racist terminology is now banned ๐Ÿ˜Œ

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step 1: go to your favourite search engine

step 2: type "origin of the term ricing"

step 3: ignore the results relating to soap, cooking, or the adorable-but-wrong backronym "Race Inspired Car Enhancements"

step 4: discover that "ricing" was a) originally used as an insult (shitty cars with lots of mods) and b) referencing people from east Asia cos, yknow, japanchinesekorean people like rice

step 5: stop using the word in the context of "mods"

step 3 takes some nuance, fair enough

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