NormalC [he/him, comrade/them] @ NormalC @hexbear.net

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It will always take courage to break away from the incumbent vocabulary and experiment with something new. If this comm couldn't survive/thrive without the use of this term, then the comm is as weak as the term itself.

Cook/Dish was my example, using other food related terms are also acceptable since the main conflict is that "rice" has a double meaning as you've shown. Plus, wouldn't it be cooler if everyone had their own personal food related title to their submissions? Or if the literal comm description didn't reference the term "rice" thereby setting it as the de-facto vocabulary?

I'd hope the moderators here will take a clear and firm stance on the matter instead of making a poll. Polls in this context would only shift blame away from the mods of this comm and onto the community at large. The comm description references the term, so it goes all the way to the top.

When repos changed to main from master, I got problems.

No you just harbor already racist attitudes. There are a non-trivial amount of people who dislike arbitrary, antiquated terminology used in computer science like "master/slave" "male/female" and of course "master branch." Simply getting out your bullhorn and asking "who's actually offended by this?" is demeaning to the issue at hand which goes much farther than just a historical analysis of racism.

You don't have to prove/have intent in order to perpetuate a racist act. The "racist context" is the use of the term (which originates in the car industry as a pejorative) itself, you're missing the point.

Do you all believe that the majority of people saying "my rice" have racist intents?

That only strengthens why "rice" should be challenged, people are unknowingly using the word just because it's the established lexicon of the group and tied so closely with that group's identity.

You can also use "cooking" or a "dish" to describe a user submission. Then people can use food-related diction to comment on each other's works. It's just a suggestion, but it proves that there are solutions.

Since presuming the computer came with Windows activated preinstalled, then the license key is likely embedded into the BIOS of the device. Reinstalling Windows will not void that license key because you already paid for it with the "windows tax." I've reinstalled windows on my pre-built "gaming" PC and the license activated automatically.

There are some pains getting a USB bootable installer image with Windows on a full GNU/Linux system, but it is entirely possible. It's also possible to virtualize windows with GPU pass-through or use Wine/Proton which should always be examined before attempting to reinstall Windows (which is always a last resort).

No, you're just both racists and you feel extremely threatened by it, you don't engage on good faith at all and instead on just preserving the status quo.

The "most people don't care" and the "find me an Asian person offended by this" are both non-talking points.

1. You are in a thread about this exact issue, it seems that there are people who care, and you have to engage with that.
2. So? Does that mean we should stop discussing this? How are we hard-pressed when this thread exists?

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner

How does it NOT discriminate? Racial coding exists and if you don't believe it exists then you're a racist.

That's not a response at all, try harder next time.

Way to engage with the subject matter, no justification at all, nothing. You're part of the problem you do know that?

It also can refer to people using rice as a pejorative catch-all term for east Asian people. The next iteration of the term still continues its racist connotations. "Not just Asian men" is a deflection from its racist roots.

I agree, it's another example of racism being burned into the English language. You should always make an effort to change and adapt your vocabulary, to not do so is to endorse the very racist history that the term is based on.

Also the term just doesn't make sense? I have no idea what "rice" is supposed to evoke outside of its history in the car industry/communities. "Cooking" seems to be the better term because people on Unixporn "cook up" their desktop to make it as appealing as possible (to their tastes or to the tastes of the group). So a submission would be someone's "cook/dish." The whole "let them cook" remark is also a relevant catchphrase.

We can do better, and why disregard that opportunity? "Rice" is a two-faced compliment with racist roots. It deserves the bucket.

He doesn't upload much on his main channel as often anymore. I don't watch his streams channel because a lot of it is very low hanging fruit dunking that doesn't add too much because of the format it's delivered in.

Quite sad.

“In the real world, we learn to control desire, postpone needs, and resist temptation. This lesson also applies to the digital world. Stealing is wrong and punishable,” it adds.

Yeah these chumps are total tools that'll just boost piracy even more. How do you fail this hard at talking to kids? If you tell a teen to "postpone needs," you don't deserve to be around teens.

Valve's contributions to Wine can be used without using Steam's DRM-based client such as in applications like Bottles and Lutris. However, we should call on Valve to release the steam client API to the public and to only distribute DRM free games (like GOG).

The Soviet Union was truly ahead of its time.

Proprietary (nonfree) Software.

People still peddle the "muh intellectual property" and "I gotta feed my kids in this fast-paced economy" even though these are irrelevant to software freedom.

An alarming majority (at least in the US) are ignorant of this conflict at all. The money is so distorted in the IT industry that it's tantamount to theft. The skeletons in Congress don't have a single clue.

This is super cool, the ability to use embedded offline translators is terrific and shows that the author does consider all use-cases. I'm definitely installing this to my Librewolf.