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[-] LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol 88 points 1 year 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.

[-] Prok@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 89 points 1 year ago

Sorry, yes: 0000000000.10000000000%

[-] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

Thanks, it makes more sense now.

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[-] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

No, they did not

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 26 points 1 year ago

0000000000.1% = 0.1%

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[-] squid_slime@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 6 points 1 year ago

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

You, Nick's porn,

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[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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

[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year 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.

[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year 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

[-] Badabinski@kbin.social 20 points 1 year 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.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

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

VTEC YOOOOOO

fart can intensifies

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Carefully eases over speed bump

Sssssccrraaaape

[-] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 1 year 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.

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[-] GearToward@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year 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.

[-] TheVillageGuy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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[-] kubica@kbin.social 7 points 1 year 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.

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

πŸ¦„πŸ†πŸ’¦

It's practically that but with penguins

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Penguins sex, ohhh yehhh

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Certainly gets me going.

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