• Distro: arch
  • Wm: sway
  • Terminal: alacritty
  • Bar: waybar
  • Launcher: rofi
  • Prompt: starship
  • Shell: zsh

Dots: here :)

  • Y2K38@lemmy.one
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
    01·
    1 year ago

    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

      • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
        01·
        1 year ago

        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

    • Teraflip@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

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

      • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
        02·
        1 year ago

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

        • PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml
          2·
          1 year ago

          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!