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    [–] [email protected] 89 points 9 months ago (15 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 63 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I think you meant to put that decimal a bit further left....

    [–] [email protected] 89 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Sorry, yes: 0000000000.10000000000%

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Thanks, it makes more sense now.

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

    No, they did not

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

    0000000000.1% = 0.1%

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 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.

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    [–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    But it's pronounced, "You! NICK! Porn!" - it's an order, not a description.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Nah it's a person with bad english asking someone to grab Nick's porn.

    You, Nick's porn,

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    [–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    because half of the wallpapers are either hentai or sexy anime characters.

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    morally cuestionable hentai WP covering 4/5 of a 16:9 monitor

    "I love how you rounded the corners of the tiles"

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 35 points 9 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

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

    VTEC YOOOOOO

    fart can intensifies

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

    Carefully eases over speed bump

    Sssssccrraaaape

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

    I think because the term of modifying japanese cars are called Rice

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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

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    [–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
    [–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    🦄🍆💦

    It's practically that but with penguins

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

    Penguins sex, ohhh yehhh

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    GNU is not unix

    Why not linuxporn or gnuporn?

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Because Greg uses FreeBSD and would be even more lonely.

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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

    Maybe to be more inclusive towards macOS or BSD users.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

    Cause there's also BSDs in there. And sometimes ~~mac~~ shiddinOS

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    It's because watching people use Unix as if it were ubiquitous is a fantasy.

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