[kwlug-disc] PewDiePie switched to Linux and encourages his viewers to do so too

[Chris Irwin]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 12:35:12PM -0400, Jason Eckert wrote:
>Ricing has been popular with newer generations entering the *nix world for
>at least a decade (
>https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/how-ricing-shifted-from-cars-to-computers/
>).

More than two decades. It was a pre-existing term when I was using 
Gentoo in 2003.

>On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 at 12:07, Jason <jasonpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's a derogatory term that originally referred to modifying street cars
>> for racing, mainly for looks, not performance.
>> Historically, a lot of the imported cars from Asia, such as the JDM
>> (Japanese Domestic Market) street racing scene were modified with larger
>> rims, exhaust, wings, etc.

It's contextually derogatory. Like some other such terms, some people 
have taken ownership of it.


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