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.
porous_grey_matter ( @porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ) 29•4 months agoCan 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
boringbisexual ( @boringbisexual@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 27•4 months agoCould just call it ‘twinking’
Y’know, like tweaking…but with thigh highs
germanatlas ( @germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•4 months agoWouldn’t twinkering be better?
WeLoveCastingSpellz ( @WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 21•4 months agoI 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
porous_grey_matter ( @porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ) 14•4 months agoI 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.
WeLoveCastingSpellz ( @WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 13•4 months agook I probably talked about this with someone else before then, yes but I don’t agree with you still. It isn’t really a slur when it is meant as the acronym Race inpired car enchantment or something like that what I am saying is that people aren’t using the slur, they’re using the acronym(even if the word used to mean somethşng different) and the intent very much does matter because they aren’t discriminating against anyone but using a word - albeit with a dubious origin -, that means something radically different now. Language isn’t static.
porous_grey_matter ( @porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ) 11•4 months agoThat acronym was made up way later, and making up some acronym for an existing word it doesn’t magically make it ok or wipe out what it already meant. Sure language isn’t static but it still means that thing.
survivalmachine ( @survivalmachine@beehaw.org ) 5•4 months agoacronym Race inpired car enchantment or something like that
Backronym. It was a racist term in the car community for decades before somebody came up with that in an attempt to whitewash it.
and the intent very much does matter
Citation needed, because every single utterance of “redskins” was racist af, even if the majority of the team’s fans never had a racist thought in their heads about native americans.
pythonoob ( @pythonoob@programming.dev ) 2•4 months agoI think slurs refer to people, not objects.
But anyway, would you consider ‘krauts’ to be a slur too?
porous_grey_matter ( @porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ) 1•4 months agoI agree slurs refer to people, but if you call a Japanese car a “rice cooker” (which is where this comes from) that’s insulting the people…
And, yeah, at least originally. “Kraut” is one of those things that really has evolved somewhat, especially through krautrock in the 70s and other things. And whether it’s racist is complex depending on definitions and blah blah blah. But it was definitely 100% coined as a slur.
pythonoob ( @pythonoob@programming.dev ) 2•4 months agoSo you consider yanks to be a slur and offensive right?
Polacks?
Frenchies?
porous_grey_matter ( @porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ) 1•4 months agoAre you being for real? You dont understand the difference between calling an Asian person rice, and “Frenchie”? Smh my head
pythonoob ( @pythonoob@programming.dev ) 2•4 months agoWhat I see is someone thinking names for white people aren’t offensive. Are you being for real? Surely you must treat all of these slurs equally right?
Unlix86 ( @Unlix86@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 14•4 months agoPepperoni (derogatory)
LoamImprovement ( @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ) 13•4 months agoYou can’t say that and not include the image:
Keith ( @kzhe@lemmy.zip ) 13•4 months agoIsn’t ricing a term for car modding? How is it racist?
porous_grey_matter ( @porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ) 13•4 months agoYeah it is; specifically Japanese cars because Asian = rice I guess?
Mac ( @Mac@mander.xyz ) 7•4 months agoYeah bro, agree. “Rice” is super cringe.
It gives hateful boomersowwy i didnt know ricing was racist term >~< i try make edit later today meowrrr
Noxy ( @noxy@yiffit.net ) English28•4 months agoWhy has “twinkpad” never occurred to me?? That’s brilliant.
kingthrillgore ( @KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ) 26•4 months agothe thighhighs are to prevent burns
real thoooo my lappytop has bad cooling and gets stinkywarm XP
Ludrol ( @Ludrol@szmer.info ) 18•4 months agoPosts new photos on !unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone every week
0x2d ( @0x2d@lemmy.ml ) 9•4 months agoi just bought a thinkpad :3
nexussapphire ( @nexussapphire@lemm.ee ) English2•4 months agoWhat vintage? Is it a good year?
0x2d ( @0x2d@lemmy.ml ) 1•4 months ago11e 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
nexussapphire ( @nexussapphire@lemm.ee ) English3•4 months agoLol I don’t know much about Thinkpads. I thought it would be funny to ask what year it was made like a fine wine. Especially since there are people out there using Thinkpads from the 90s.
hell yeah !!
PINKeHamton ( @PINKeHamton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•4 months agoI like HP business laptops more