/tech/ - Technology★

>>>/rice/

>>980270 (OP)

>>>/g/

>>980270 (OP)

At most, ricing involves writing scripts which is a part of the hacker mentality; however, the vast majority simply copy and paste these.

The hacker mentality implies being playfully clever and as you said, "wanting to change things to make them work better". Changing values in config files is not a part of the hacker mentality. This is akin to calling someone who installs mods for Minecraft, literally dragging and dropping folders into a .jar file when opened using an archival program, a game developer. Installing mods doesn't make you a game developer and changing a few values in a config file does not make you a hacker.

Go back to >>>/g/ or reddit or whatever gay space you came from.

>>980270 (OP)

Nothing more than a bunch of self-serving wank.

Good guys get the job done. No time to tinker around.

>>980296

What does "job" means when you're at home? Your ant mentality is quite faggy.

>>980288

Basically this. Using lemonbar and writing your status scripts from scratch is casual hacking; following a tutorial to modify your i3status.conf is ricing.

>>980299

You obviously never worked in a team... That alone doesn't make you an "ant".

Get out and get a life instead of masturbating on your l33t h4xx0r phantasies.

You are not a "hacker". You just got internet access.

It depends, you can rice in order to get a fast-to-use and efficient workflow, however, most ricers only rice in order to get one cool screenshot while their system is a fucking pain to actually use.

>>980270 (OP)

Nothing wrong with a little ricing so long as you don't think it makes you some kind of 1337 haxz0r. It can be fun to do and it can make your desktop more enjoyable for you to use so long as you apply a little aesthetics and common sense. Just don't delude yourself into thinking it's some sort of highly-skilled achievement to type "sudo pacman -Syu i3-gaps compton". But as long as you're not a pretentious faggot about it you can make your desktop as efficient or as fun as you want it to be.

>>980270 (OP)

oh dude i love customizing my rig with rainmeter it's the best

>>980270 (OP)

ricing is a lot of time spent configuring a work environment that could've been time spent actually working.