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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 Japanese crap 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 came from was.

K.

If it’s not broke…

Only if you’re rich enough

Melodies of Steel Intensifies

I can think of a few possibilities

1. Some sites like Instagram were/are specifically restricted to square images only (I think that’s changed now but I don’t use instagram)

2. When images are very wide or very tall, apps will often fill to a differently aspected thumbnail, cutting off important parts of the comic like dialogue. My Lemmy client (Connect) does this, for example. If your base image is square, then the thumbnail will also always show the whole image.

3. A square image is a compromise which is fine on both mobile and desktop and is a middle ground everyone can tolerate.

For what it’s worth, I’m with you.

I also work from home, and while I generally cook all my own meals and do meal prep at werkends, sometimes I have a bad/stressful week where I cave and get fast food like three lunches in a row.

I keep a grocery bag in the car and put the fast food in there to hide my shame.

The cause of enshittification is essentially the shareholder pressure for endless and exponential growth that comes from public ownership.

Valve is a privately held company, and as long as it remains that way it doesn’t have those perverse incentives.

Gabe will never allow Valve to go public as long as he is in control, but after he is gone who knows.

19:00 somewhat ruined the illusion, bringing those modern Arabic numerals into the mix.

There’s a perfectly good “at sunset” hieroglyphic 🌄

(it’s technically sunrise, but okay)

This is like playing Disco Elysium

Club penguin ban speedrun Any %

This increasing trend is extremely annoying - and worrying.

Several times here in the UK I’ve been trying to reach out to companies I have relationships with (e.g. my phone provider) only to find they want me to DM them on Twitter or Instagram.

There’s no fucking way I’m using some proprietary service to have a convo with my phone company, especially when A) I don’t even have an account on the service and don’t want one and B) the convo will contain info about my phone account and personal info, and no way should I be sharing that over such a channel.

As far as I’m concerned it should be straight up ILLEGAL for companies to offer official contact on big tech platforms, when they have no control over how data in the chat is later used.

If they want to offer online chat, it should be through a third party who does that as their primary business model as a paid service, and can give explicit contractual guarantees on data storage and ownership.

It’s intended to visually represent an atom with radiation emitting away from it.

It’s not “univeral” in the sense that anyone could understand it, but in the sense that anyone who knows about what radiation is would have a clue - be them people now, or some far-future civilisation stumbling across a nuclear dump site, or aliens. It’s a depiction of what is going on.

The symbol also uses elements of graphic design that make it feel unwelcoming and hostile even if you have no understanding at all. It’s a design that clearly telegraphs “this is not a good thing”

Similar for the biohazard sign, which in its strange curves and spines looks almost “mutated”

Let’s say the third party lists it for $35.50

Amazon applies a discount of $0.51 cents to bring it under the $35 amount for free shipping.

Someone buys it for/that $34.99 but Amazon still pays the original seller based on the seller’s original listed price.

And so Amazon subsidised it, but still came out net benefit because the amount of the subsidy was less than shipping cost, or less than the price of some other item the customer now had to put in their basket to get over the free shipping threshold again.

There are still times where it’s convenient. I have some display cases with integrated lighting and the inline switches are incoveniently between the case and the wall so its super handy to turn it on and off at the plug.

Being able to turn things off at the plug also reduces standby/phantom power when things are in sleep, which for some devices adds up more energy usage than you’d think.

Sometimes when people go on holiday for two weeks they like to disconnect the electrical items in their house for safety. With switched sockets you can just turn them off instead.

I’m sure I could live just fine without switched sockets, but it’s convenient they are there.

You should open the venti, it reeks in there.

The nice thing about Gator Game was that movement felt so good and fluid. It really is just a game about jumping and climing and bouncing around like a hyper kid.

Given the game doesn’t have ‘combat’ they really really needed to get traversal right because that’s the main draw, and they succeeded in that.

That sounds miserable :(

In a previous position I was asked if I was willing to be on call, but it was optional. I accepted because the terms were good.

If I was on call the requirements were clear - No alcohol, and a 10 minute response time 24/7.

In return, I got a bump in my paycheck for weeks I was on call, no matter whether I was actually called or not. And any time that I did end up spending on support incidents I was eligible to take back out of normal hours at time and a half. So if I spent two hours on support in the middle of the night, I could take three hours off the next day.

It was a respectful arrangement that made me feel positive about the company and management, and I wish all companies did it that way.

I got lost a few times too, but I think they did a good job of providing mitigation for that with specific large landmarks you can see at least one of from anywhere, like the big tree, the mountain, the windmill.

I understand what the devs were trying to do by not having a map. When a map is there, especially an always-on minimap, I basically spend my whole time with my eyes glued to that tiny corner of the screen rather than actually looking at the world. So I can respect the decision to try and do without any map.