OS: Arch Linux

Gnome Theme: Orchis GTK

Icon Theme: ePapirus-Dark

Terminal Emulator: kitty

Terminal Theme: Catppuccin with some changes

GNOME Extensions: Dash to Dock, DING, Extension List, User Themes, Places Status Indicator, Removable Drive Menu

  • Uninvited Guest@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’ve just been lurking and enjoying the pretty themes, but I find myself finally needing to ask: why is it called rice?

    • jrandomhacker@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately, racism.

      It’s a term from the car-modding scene. “Rice burner” was a pejorative term for badly-customized imported Japanese cars with more flashy looks than performance upgrades. It then came to just mean “heavily visually modified”, and installing such mods was called “ricing”