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That's what I'm asking myself with pretty much any "sexy" decoration.

Why put a poster of a nude girl in your locker, break room, bedroom, whatever? The only explanation I can find is performative display of (hetero) masculinity.

Doesn't anyone visit you?

Deep down you know the answer

And what's the point

Simping, setting unrealistic transitioning goals, often both

My desktop background has been the same shade of dark blue for the past roughly quarter century.

At first, it was because I didn't want anything making visual recognition of stuff slower, when I was using a stacking windowing environment. Now I use a tiling windowing system and rarely see the desktop.

On my Android phone, for some inane reason, there's no option to just use a fixed color background, so I've never bothered changing it from whatever the vendor shipped, don't care enough to make a custom one-color image. I'd probably use black on the Android devices I have with OLED screens on general principle, but again, it doesn't spend much time being visible.

All that being said, if you're looking at screenshots of people ricing out their desktop on a community devoted to that, the whole point is to give them an interesting thematic look. They're gonna have a background.

If you took a screenshot of my desktop, it'd be one blue rectangle. No persistently-visible taskbar. The vast majority of time, if there's a window up, I have only a single, fullscreen window. That's not really interesting to look at, and I doubt that anyone doing that is going to put it on a "rice your desktop" community, in the same sort of way that nobody is going to go to a "rice your car" community and post images of a vanilla Camry.

I mean, I'd personally rather see an anime girl themed desktop than those weird statues rich people sometimes have in places like on their coffee table that are stuff like a woman in the boob + butt out pose with no limbs or head. That shit is just creepy looking. I know it's supposed to be reminiscent of broken Greek and Roman statues, but why do they always have to be posed and objectified like porn stars? At least with the anime girl, I know that I'm talking to an otaku rather than Hannibal Lecter.

There's some classy non-sexualized "anime girl" backgrounds that are pretty slick.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2618988115

I really enjoy this one for Wallpaper Engine.

Fits the sexy android aesthetic without showing any of the body, instead focusing on the android aspect.

These people already see me regularly. They deserve seeing something not quite as hot as me on my screen for a change. :V

Anime girl backgrounds are mostly waifu/waifu veneration culture in the anime fandom sphere. Otherwise if motherfuckers were setting full on hentai doujinshi panels as their backgrounds...holy shit, that would be wild and bring up a few questions as to the mental health and porn addiction of the individual involved, unless it was some stylistic repeated Ahegao face collage of some sort for the memery.

That was implied with "sexy".

I bet your self hosted services actually work too.

The consensus middle ground was an anime catgirl.

This is more like Fallout than Portal but maybe it can work for you.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

You might have some luck with a wm that can apply shaders.

Something like hyprland, wayfire, or compost could do the trick; and you’d be looking for a very diffuse (glsl) bloom shader with an exaggerated horizontal component or an additional scanline shader.

I use fastfetch.

What about fastfetch? I've been a happy user for a while.

I'm very clearly not fucking anyone.

That’s obviously just reskinned domain/os. You thought you could fool us, but you haven’t got one over on me!

Maybe he's mocking the fishes slow response time to a 1 answer question.

Calm down mister fancy pants, the kids now are using hyprland

Derives from ricing cars. Ricing cars derives from "rice burner", where it was common to take an inexpensive, Asian-made car for modding. The pejorative nature kind of got lost somewhere along the way.

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

Rice burner is a pejorative term originally applied to Japanese motorcycles and which later expanded to include Japanese cars or any East Asian-made vehicles.[2][3][4][5] Variations include rice rocket, referring most often to Japanese superbikes, rice machine, rice grinder or simply ricer.[3][6][7]

T-Mobile's 1985 Corolla Sport GT-S coupé "Poser Mobile" advertisements exploited ethnic stereotypes and stereotypes of customized East Asian cars as failed imitations of "authentic" car culture

Riced out is an adjective denigrating a badly customized sports car, "usually with oversized or ill-matched exterior appointments".[8] Rice boy is a US derogatory term for the driver or builder of an import-car hot rod.[4] The terms may disparage cars or car enthusiasts as imposters or wanna-bes, using cheap modifications to imitate the appearance of high performance.

I... can't tell if you're joking or not. Could be a joke, but it would explain a lot of setups I have seen...

It's only Linux when it comes from the tiling region of Finland. Otherwise it's just sparkling GNU.