Linux users don't customize their systems all that much?!
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What what?
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using linux is a slur now
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I think that part of the issue is that every disability is unique to some degree. No two people who are blind have blindness to the same degree. Colorblind people have several variations they could be experiencing. There are neurological disorders that range from not being able to read sentences normally because the words start to become jumbled to being unable to focus on large amounts of text. There are physical disabilities of all sorts that affect the arms and hands or even the ability to sit upright to look at the computer screen.
Because of that, there are two options:
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build a desktop environment custom-tailored to each individuals needs.
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build some general purpose accessibility options that can (and must) be adjusted to meet an individuals needs, which may or may not be able to meet them 100%.
Out of the two, the second one is far more feasible, and more possible to improve upon.
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The only ricing I did on my vanilla Gnome is to go get the background from fedora 38 because I think it looks nicer than the one in 41
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it's like the words picnic and thanksgiving in their american-specific contexts, with both words no longer carry the connotation that implies lynching black people or giving thanks to god for genociding native americans; the present day version of both of these words, along with ricing, is neutral now.
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ricing was a pejorative word that used to describe what people did to japanese & korean cars; but it's stopped carrying that connotation in a similar manner to the words picnic and thanksgiving.
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It just seems like it could have very easily been replaced with "customization" without the conflict.
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We don’t consider it to be neutral, and we remove posts that use the term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner
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The person you replied to isn't entirely wrong, though.
"ricing" was a term in use in the car modding scene around the 80s and 90s especially, where among certain groups it was popular to modify Japanese import cars with kits and decals etc to mimic the look of the Japanese racing scene.
Some people considered these mods to be tacky and worthless because they usually tended to focus more on aesthetics than performance, purely tricking the car up visually with no other changes. Due to the Asian origin of these mods and the stereotype that Asians eat a lot.of rice, the cars were insultingly dubbed "rice burners" or " ricers" and the process of doing it "ricing"
It was intended 100% as an insult, basically meaning "Your car looks like shit because of all that Asian stuff you put on it"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner
Like many insults of course, the insult is often "reclaimed" by the group it targets, who begin to use it between themselves in a favourable way, without any insult or negative connotation.
Ricing in the context of computers where people are styling, theming and "tricking out" their desktop almost certainly was borrowed from the car scene.
By this point there is basically no negative intent around the term at all, and especially not racist, but the place the term from was.
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Yes that's definitely what I meant
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never heard that one before
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it should have, but it wasn't and now it's part of modern pop culture lexicon and i'm 100% onboard with divorcing words from thier ugly, painful history.
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I don't have vision problems and I hate the low contrast text being shoved into everything. I've no idea how frustrating it must be if you have sight issues, but I can imagine.
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I have a custom theme for Cinnamon/GTK... But they recently updated it and the new default theme doesn't actually look that bad... But using the default theme will make me a sheep. ;_;
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Yep no one seems to like it. Yet it keeps getting implemented.
My current conspiracy. It my brothers guide dog controlling the world so she has a job.
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my friend's dad's brother uses arch
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Well put. But yep, that pretty much somes it up.
The issue is how much stuff seems to just say. Let's not bother at all. I will not the worst OS software for this has commercial names attached to it. Even when OS if some big company is responsible for funding. It's down to the community to fight to get any decent support as a default. Capitalism really dose not want to care about disabled users unless forced. Or medical level profits are attached. But lets ;leave that mess out for now.
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Ignore the braindead replies, this was really informative.
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If someone has a script to set up HyprLand or Sway with all the necessary components and dotfiles I'm all ears because I just don't have the patience to experiment myself so I'm still on GNOME.
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please take your racism elsewhere, sir
