• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    All these answers are good but for the real answer: because reddit did a thing where they had "X"porn around like, idk, '07 ish. Earthporn, spaceporn, unixporn, etc. It’s just (supposed to be anyway) very pretty pictures of pretty things related to the topic, like for instance a scenic waterfall for earthporn, some cool nebula with a bunch of colors added in for spaceporn, and a sick i3 rice for unixporn.

  • kubica@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    Probably just line any safe for work communities that had also “porn” in its name. Just using the word to mean that it is very appealing.

  • LainOfTheWired@lemy.lolEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Basically people will call really visually pleasing things within a hobby porn. Like on some places online you can find food porn, which is simply really delicious looking food that’s nicely presented( Yes it’s kinda an edgy joke to call it porn).

    But it’s not made to be sexual and no one except maybe 0000000000.1% of people( I don’t want to think about it) probably get turned on by it.

    Anyway back to riceing DWM and st.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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      6 months ago

      Now I’m thinking of all the poor people who like neatly laid out documents but can’t find what they want when looking for visually pleasing layout techniques.

      • wiikifox@pawb.social
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        6 months ago

        It’s not just GNU/Linux what people show in unixporn: some rice macOS, some rice BSD, and some even rice Android. What do they have in common? They’re all based on UNIX.

        • kurumin@linux.communityEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Ohhh I only ever saw linux, sorry. So BSD is based on Unix but is not unix too?

          Thanks for explaining.

            • fl42v@lemmy.ml
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              6 months ago

              Unix is like franchising: you can be perfectly SUS, yet no money = not Unix

          • neidu2@feddit.nl
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            6 months ago

            Depends on what you mean by BSD.

            If you mean literally BSD, then yes, it’s a direct UNIX decendant based on the same source tree. However, it’s been discontinued 30 years ago.

            If you mean one of the *BSDs (Freebsd, netbsd, openbsd), then the relationship is more similar to that of linux, although there is still actual BSD code involved.

            Source: Former FreeBSD user.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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      6 months ago

      Now I’m thinking of all the poor people who like neatly laid out documents but can’t find what they want when looking for visually pleasing layout techniques.

  • const_void@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Also never understood why it’s called “rice” instead of a “theme”. Every DE uses the term “theme” but /unixporn uses the term “rice” for some reason.

    • Badabinski@kbin.social
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      6 months ago

      The only thing that comes to me is that someone who was really into tuning/spiffing up Japanese cars was involved in the community early on. I’ve always found it weird, and I’d honestly kinda prefer to just use “theme” or “spiff” or one of the many other words that the Godfucked curse of the Earth that is the English language provides for the purpose.

            • Badabinski@kbin.social
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              6 months ago

              Yeah, that’s why I wish the community would just use a different term. I’m not a fan of where it came from (Japanese bad Japanese motorcycle bad), and the arguments where one person says “I’ve been saying it for years,” versus “bro it’s been fucking racist for years,” have gone past the point of a beaten and dead horse and into the realm of a fine mist of blood, fat, muscle, and viscera. Like, I just don’t understand why people are attached to it, it’s such a weird hill to die on. If it’s a matter of having a term that people outside of the community wouldn’t immediately understand, then I’m sure a different word could be found.

              Edit: christ, I was not familiar with its usage in the 1930s. What a mess…

              • Ooops@kbin.social
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                6 months ago

                I just don’t understand why people are attached to it

                Because words aren’t racist, people and opinions and sentiments expressed by them are.

                When the term ricing is used for so long and 95%+ of people don’t know where it came from and have zero negative connotations associated with it, your argument (from their perspective) sounds like this:

                “Don’t use the term, by its obscure origin you didin’t even know about it is racist”

                “I’ve been saying it for years without any racism intended nor perceived”

                “bro it’s been you are being a fucking racist for years”

                And then you are surprised by the negative reaction…

                • Badabinski@kbin.social
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                  6 months ago

                  I think my initial read of your comment was wrong (I thought you were saying that the term was fine, which didn’t hold up on my second read where I was paying attention), so I want to clarify by saying what I think you mean. You’re making the point that I should be saying that the statement is racist and that they should consider whether or not they want to use it, not that they are being racist by using it in ignorance.

                  Is that right? Because if so, that’s a fair point. More flies with honey than vinegar and all that. I’m normally better about giving people a chance to consider rather than just dictate my beliefs, but I’m sleep deprived and cranky and I think it’s making me act in ways that aren’t aligned with my usual values.

                  Edit: and it’s a sign that I need to get off of the Internet for now, since I’m being waaaay more negative than I want to be.

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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        6 months ago

        Ricing vehicles (mostly cars) used to be a big thing, enough so that when “rice” first started being used it was a common term to even people not into the hobby. I think it’s a… not skeumorphism, but whatever the tern is for anachronisms like “files” and “folders.” Metaphors carried over from the before-times.

        Unlike “disks” which is a term that used to refer to a specific thing that’s largely been replaced by rectangular solid state devices. I feel as if there are, or should be, terms for these language elements.

      • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        dude with flames, topless anime character designs, no hood and a fart can skids into view

        VTEC YOOOOOO

        fart can intensifies

    • callyral [he/they]@pawb.socialEnglish
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      6 months ago

      i prefer to call them themes, it’s more descriptive. i usually call them rices ironically. i guess use whichever term you prefer idk

    • finestnothing@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Ricing came from the term rice-rocket from Japanese car enthusiasts which referred to the mods for their cars (physical mods, paint, stickers, etc). Transformed into rice/ricing eventually just because terms tend to shorten, and eventually jumped to other circles.

      I usually think of a theme as a widely distributed/standardized set of appearances that anyone can load and use while a rice is customized and unique to that person

  • ☭ SaltyIceteaMaker ☭@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    6 months ago

    Unix: Linux, bsd, OSX and many more OS’s are Unix based

    (Afaik unix was it’s own OS back in the day but i have often heard that unix nowadays is regarded as more of a philosophy)

    Porn: is often used to say something looks really good: foodporn, earthporn etc.

    • Ziglin@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Not based on as in they use the Unix code (except BSD from what I’ve heard in other threads here) they are unix-like GNU literally means GNU’s not Unix