ColdWater@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agospend hours ricing my desktop and decided I hated it at the end, and ended up wiping my entire OSlemmy.caimagemessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1464arrow-down126
arrow-up1438arrow-down1imagespend hours ricing my desktop and decided I hated it at the end, and ended up wiping my entire OSlemmy.caColdWater@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square81fedilink
minus-squareTwo9A@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 days agoAs 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.
minus-squarefleton@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 days agoI thought ricing was when asian street food vendors would make their small food carts all fancy looking?
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.
I thought ricing was when asian street food vendors would make their small food carts all fancy looking?