ColdWaterOct 16

spend hours ricing my desktop and decided I hated it at the end, and ended up wiping my entire OS

https://lemmy.ca/post/53467064

Show threadpressedhamsOct 16
What does ricing mean in this context?
Show threadonlinepersona
The term also confuses me. What does customising a desktop have to do with rice? Is it like beads to decorate stuff? Maybe “beading” would have a bad interpretation, but rice is just confusing.
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Show threadBo7aOct 16
It is an extension/evolution of the idea of ricing cars. Originally it was something like Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements. Basically stuff that makes your car look faster, but does nothing for performance.
Show threaddubletOct 16

Originally it was something like Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements.

I think this is a bit of a backronym, as it refers more to “import” vehicles from Japan.

Urban Dictionary: riced out

riced out: Import vehicle that has been riced out typically has one too many mods that is only appealing to the owner of the vehicle. This includes body...

Urban Dictionary
Show threadTheRealKuniOct 16

100% a backronym. Ricer came from rice burner, a pejorative term for Asian cars.

But its use has changed a lot in the decades since.

Show threadcdzeroOct 16
I believe it refers to a similar concept in the car modding scene.
Show threadKrimikaOct 16
I believe ricing roots from the derogatory word for Asian mod cars, known as ricers. Customizing or modding them was the deal.
Show threadpsycotica0Oct 16

Uhmmmm, pretty sure it’s worse than that. My understanding of the term is that it comes from cars, where cheaper Asian cars were entering the American market and were called “rice burners” (racistly), and I’m pretty sure from there the concept of decking out a cheap car with spoilers and ground kits and a wild paint job and stuff was called “ricing” because it was a thing in the Asian communities. As in “ricing a car” is “doing what an Asian would do to that car, and you know how they’re all about rice”

I’d be happy to be wrong here… but I think that’s the history on that word.

Show threadpressedhamsOct 16
Makes sense! So, it’s a pejorative and we probably shouldn’t use it?
Show threadrebelsimileOct 16
I am old enough that the term would make me uncomfortable to use, yeah. Imagine my surprise when all the Linux vids use it.
Show threadGerudoOct 16
Your 100% correct. I just point to early Fast and Furious movies.
Show threadBCsvenOct 16

Im old. It used to be derogatory against imported cars to North America. Rice Racers meant Japanese imports that were modified.

But the meaning or rather the connotation has changed. It now is more related to the cooking term of ricing, where you pass a vegetable through a ricer to break it into rice sized pieces. You rice your PC by tuning all the pieces and making minute tweaks.

As another commentor added the RICE term for cars is now a backcronym of Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements