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    [–] LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol 89 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Basically people will call really visually pleasing things within a hobby porn. Like on some places online you can find food porn, which is simply really delicious looking food that's nicely presented( Yes it's kinda an edgy joke to call it porn).

    But it's not made to be sexual and no one except maybe 0000000000.1% of people( I don't want to think about it) probably get turned on by it.

    Anyway back to riceing DWM and st.

    [–] Prok@lemmy.world 62 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I think you meant to put that decimal a bit further left....

    [–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

    No, they did not

    [–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Sorry, yes: 0000000000.10000000000%

    [–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Thanks, it makes more sense now.

    [–] Zoot@reddthat.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    What? Its the same as .1%, or. 01? .00000000001 would be what you'd want no?

    [–] hangonasecond@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

    It was a joke, I think

    [–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 26 points 10 months ago

    0000000000.1% = 0.1%

    [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 10 months ago

    Now I'm thinking of all the poor people who like neatly laid out documents but can't find what they want when looking for visually pleasing layout techniques.

    [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 10 months ago

    Now I'm thinking of all the poor people who like neatly laid out documents but can't find what they want when looking for visually pleasing layout techniques.

    [–] kurumin@linux.community -4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    and why Unix? Linux ain't unix.

    [–] wiikifox@pawb.social 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It's not just GNU/Linux what people show in unixporn: some rice macOS, some rice BSD, and some even rice Android. What do they have in common? They're all based on UNIX.

    [–] callyral@pawb.social 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    They’re all based on UNIX.

    technically not, rather, they're unix-like since unix was a proprietary system

    [–] wiikifox@pawb.social 5 points 10 months ago

    Thanks for the heads up! I meant in philosphy, not necesarily in the code.

    [–] kurumin@linux.community 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Ohhh I only ever saw linux, sorry. So BSD is based on Unix but is not unix too?

    Thanks for explaining.

    [–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)
    [–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

    Unix is like franchising: you can be perfectly SUS, yet no money = not Unix

    [–] neidu2@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    Depends on what you mean by BSD.

    If you mean literally BSD, then yes, it's a direct UNIX decendant based on the same source tree. However, it's been discontinued 30 years ago.

    If you mean one of the *BSDs (Freebsd, netbsd, openbsd), then the relationship is more similar to that of linux, although there is still actual BSD code involved.

    Source: Former FreeBSD user.

    [–] kurumin@linux.community 1 points 10 months ago

    oh I get it. Thanks|!|

    [–] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 3 points 10 months ago

    Linux (and Android) are not based on Unix, they are Unix-like. And macOS is based on BSD.

    [–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

    X doesn't care what the kernel is.

    [–] squid_slime@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
    [–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    But it's pronounced, "You! NICK! Porn!" - it's an order, not a description.

    [–] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Nah it's a person with bad english asking someone to grab Nick's porn.

    You, Nick's porn,

    [–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
    [–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    because half of the wallpapers are either hentai or sexy anime characters.

    [–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    morally cuestionable hentai WP covering 4/5 of a 16:9 monitor

    "I love how you rounded the corners of the tiles"

    [–] const_void@lemmy.ml 22 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Also never understood why it's called "rice" instead of a "theme". Every DE uses the term "theme" but /unixporn uses the term "rice" for some reason.

    [–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

    Ricing came from the term rice-rocket from Japanese car enthusiasts which referred to the mods for their cars (physical mods, paint, stickers, etc). Transformed into rice/ricing eventually just because terms tend to shorten, and eventually jumped to other circles.

    I usually think of a theme as a widely distributed/standardized set of appearances that anyone can load and use while a rice is customized and unique to that person

    [–] GearToward@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

    I think because the term of modifying japanese cars are called Rice

    [–] callyral@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    i prefer to call them themes, it's more descriptive. i usually call them rices ironically. i guess use whichever term you prefer idk

    [–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 10 months ago

    for some reason.

    History.

    [–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    All these answers are good but for the real answer: because reddit did a thing where they had "X"porn around like, idk, '07 ish. Earthporn, spaceporn, unixporn, etc. It's just (supposed to be anyway) very pretty pictures of pretty things related to the topic, like for instance a scenic waterfall for earthporn, some cool nebula with a bunch of colors added in for spaceporn, and a sick i3 rice for unixporn.

    [–] TheVillageGuy@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
    [–] SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    Unix: Linux, bsd, OSX and many more OS's are Unix based

    (Afaik unix was it's own OS back in the day but i have often heard that unix nowadays is regarded as more of a philosophy)

    Porn: is often used to say something looks really good: foodporn, earthporn etc.

    [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

    Not based on as in they use the Unix code (except BSD from what I've heard in other threads here) they are unix-like GNU literally means GNU's not Unix

    [–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    🦄🍆💦

    It's practically that but with penguins

    [–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

    Penguins sex, ohhh yehhh

    [–] JustZ@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    It's because watching people use Unix as if it were ubiquitous is a fantasy.

    [–] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

    Certainly gets me going.

    [–] FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

    Unix is the OS Linux and BSD (and its many variants) are based off.

    [–] urandom@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

    It comes from a book called cabin porn, which contains pictures of cabins