midnight

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

You lot really are top tier shitters aren’t you. Just grasping at concepts and twisting words to fit your little victim complex. Please show me where I equated communism to maga. That was all you babycakes.

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

Dealing with you is tiring just like every maga idiot ever parroting the same bullshit and never actually addressing a point. You sure you didn’t go so far left you ended up in rightville? You may have dropped your red hat.

I’m going to take your refusal to address anything other than your weird sticking point of calling me a baby as you have no legs to stand on with regard to the actual substance of this thread.

Keep holding that L homie.

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

You’ve given me whiplash. No mental gymnastics involved in casting a wide net.

The rest of your post seems to agree with me? Did you mean to reply to someone else?

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

Why do you insist on centering this on me? Mentioning the piling on was my first comment here. There’s zero chance I was referring to myself lmao and I’m still not.

Your constant need to go after me is pretty telling. I’m curious what your definition of piling on is if attacking people instead of their argument doesn’t meet that bar.

And again, not talking about myself. And if you need examples I invite you to read all of the responses in the thread objectively, and not as a hexbear user with already hurt feelings.

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

Lmao are you gonna bust out the I’m rubber you’re glue next? You lack reading comprehension and you’ve devolved to throwing insults instead of having a discussion.

If you can’t see all the hexbear users piling onto those that disagree with OP I don’t know what to tell you.

Good luck out there.

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

Again with the lack of reading comprehension. Did I say it was only hexbear users piling on? No. I just pointed out that there are a lot of hexbear users piling on. Your persecution complex is showing.

I’m not sure where you assumed I"m upset about anything here or that I think there’s a conspiracy against me. Hello projection.

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

You’ll notice your comrade is the one that mentioned brigading. I only said there were a lot of hexbear users piling onto people that disagree with OP, which is obvious reading through the post. I can’t hold your hand on that though, if you don’t possess the reading comprehension to see that that’s on you.

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

Everyone who talks about hexbear brigading, piling on, or “taking shifts” doesn’t understand how federation works.

Just because there are some users that stumble upon content semi-organically doesn’t mean brigading and piling on isn’t happening. I would hope you guys aren’t actually taking shifts. Hello hyperbole. And none of that indicates someone doesn’t understand how federation works, are you sure you understand how it works?

the group of people who get to decide whether or not something is racist is the group that is the target of that racism

They’re also the group that gets to decide if they’re offended/if something qualifies as racist toward them. You’ll notice OP never indicated if they were part of this group, and by them recently learning the roots of the term as it relates to the car scene I’d guess they’re not. Hello virtue signaling.

Hetero people don’t get to decide the 3-letter f-word isn’t homophobic

When it relates to homosexuality, I agree. When in another context, like… oh say British slang, it’s not at all. Context matters, that’s the whole point here.

trying to force a racist term into regular usage … is itself some really racist shit

I’m not going to concede your assertion that ricing in this context is racist. Nobody is forcing anything, ricing in this context has been a non racial term for as long as I’ve seen it used to describe customizing DEs. This is what something changing organically looks like. Unless you can point me to a source showing the term as it relates to linux was intentionally used to try to dull the racist origins in the car world you can go sit with the other hexbear virtue signalers in this post.

midnight , 10 months ago to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

Look ma, another one! Do you all take shifts on duty watching this thread?

Different opinions being challenging your collective definition of the word being inherently racist. You can hem and haw all you want but meanings can change over time. If it can start being used racially at one point it can surely stop at another.

midnight , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to unixporn in Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

Sheesh, there sure are a lot of hexbear users here piling onto anybody with a different opinion

Edit: I went ahead and queried the lemmy database from a federated instance I have access to.

These are the top 3 instances commenting in this specific post at the time of writing (2023-08-25 08:02 UTC):

<span style="color:#323232;">instance   | count
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-------------+-------
</span><span style="color:#323232;">hexbear.net |   205
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lemmy.ml    |   106
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lemm.ee     |    61
</span>

These are the top 3 instances and their comment counts on any post in lemmy.ml/c/unixporn this month at the time of writing:

<span style="color:#323232;">domain    | count
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-------------+-------
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lemmy.ml    |   210
</span><span style="color:#323232;">hexbear.net |   210
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lemm.ee     |   100
</span>

You’re reading that right, hexbear has a whopping FIVE comments in this community that are not part of this post.

For the curious, those 5 comments at the time of writing are:

• hexbear.net/comment/3722672
• hexbear.net/comment/3749006
• hexbear.net/comment/3722165
• hexbear.net/comment/3722091
• hexbear.net/comment/3790117

One of which is especially hilarious as we see a hexbear user that’s been railing on people in this post using the very term they’re condemning here. Strong convictions? Perhaps bandwagoning the hexbear teet? Who knows. Definitely not suspicious 🙄

midnight , 1 year ago to youshouldknow in YSK: While you're on Lemmy/Kbin/Fediverse, you're not "the product" but you're also not "the customer".

You’re thinking of lemmygrad, but the rest is right

midnight , 1 year ago to android in Hidden Gems: Unveiling Apps That Could Have Enhanced Your Experience Sooner?

I recently found out Nova was purchased by an analytics company. I don’t have any proof or solid reason to think they’re up to no good necessarily. But I have zero desire to use something as integral as a launcher that’s owned by a company like that.

I moved to Neo Launcher and it’s been 95% as good as Nova. The knock is just some fine tunings that Nova had, but I’m not having any issues with Neo.